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Crisis Care and Residential Treatment Services
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Human Services
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
Program Description:
<p>Crisis Care and Residential Treatment Services provide emergency and long-term shelter, group and individual therapy, crisis intervention, and respite services for children from birth to age 18 who are victims of abuse, abandonment, neglect, or family crisis. Children are accepted 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Residents of the Home attend on-campus Jefferson County Public Schools located in the Weinberg Academy and Discovery Classrooms. </p>
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Program Long-Term Success:
<ul><li>Children and youth will stabilize educationally through regular school<br />attendance or other educational programming.</li><li>Children in crisis will remain in or be transitioned into healthy, safe<br />and secure home settings.</li></ul>
Program Short-Term Success:
<p>Children & young people served by Home of the Innocents will have<br />immediate basic needs met.</p>
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Measuring program outcomes is an activity to which Home of the Innocents has been fully committed for many years. The agency has repeatedly seen the benefit of this activity in the continual enhancement of the quality and effectiveness of its programming. Each year, the process of measuring and examining the results of program outcomes bring to light new insights and challenges. Key to this process for the Home is its Program Services Committee. This committee of the Board of Directors meets monthly throughout the year to provide oversight and to review results. Each month, staff of a particular program report on the specifics of the program, such as its clients, services, challenges, and successes (outcomes). The Home's commitment is further evidenced by its having created a senior management position responsible for quality improvement. The Vice President of Quality Improvement reports at least quarterly to the Programs Services Committee and works year round to ensure compliance with the standards of the Council on Accreditation.
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Kosair Charities Pediatric Convalescent Center
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Human Services
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Disabled, General or Disability Unspecified
Program Description:
<p >The Kosair Charities Pediatric Convalescent Center (KCPCC) is home to children with severe disabilities who have medical needs that require 24-hour skilled care; some are dependent on ventilators and feeding tubes, most are in wheelchairs and have limited verbal communication abilities.
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<p ><lock aspectratio="t" ></lock><lock aspectratio="f" ></lock>KCPCC staff care for children from birth to age 21, providing Speech/Language Pathology, Occupational, Physical, and Respiratory Therapies, Respite Care, and engaging daily activities. Each summer, the children participate in Summer Camp, where they are paired up with a typically-functioning peer to enjoy art projects, music performances, and play activities.<strong> </strong>
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Program Long-Term Success:
<p>The <strong>Kosair Charities Pediatric Convalescent Center</strong> (KCPCC) received a five-star overall rating and is ranked among “America's Best Nursing Homes” by U.S. News and World Report. The KCPCC also achieved a zero deficiency rating during their annual state survey.
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Program Short-Term Success:
The KCPCC’s diversely qualified team served 107 pediatric patients last year, which has grown from previous years due to the construction of a new cottage.
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Program:
Open Arms Children’s Health
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Health Care
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Physically Disabled nec
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Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
Program Description:
<p >The Home has expanded services in the last year to include Open Arms Children’s Health – a one-stop shop for medical, dental, hearing, and behavioral healthcare alongside our on-campus Village Pharmacy. Following the Integrated Healthcare model, Open Arms can serve the whole child.
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<p >Open Arms’ medical office is a primary care facility for children ages birth to 18, located in the newly constructed Hockensmith Center. Our qualified, compassionate medical professionals provide immunizations, well checks, sick visits, sports and back to school physicals for residents of the Home’s pediatric convalescent center and crisis care shelter facility, clients of our partner agencies, and children with exceptional needs from all over Kentucky and Southern Indiana.
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<p> </p><lock aspectratio="t" ></lock><lock aspectratio="f" ></lock>In the spring of 2011, the Home opened a state-of-the-art dental clinic with a grant from the federal Social Innovation Fund. The Open Arms dental clinic, in collaboration with the University of Louisville’s School of Dentistry, provides opportunities for specialized dental treatment for some of the most underserved children from across the region. In addition to offering much needed dental health care, the clinic is a teaching site for dental professionals being trained at U of L’s School of Dentistry’s Pediatric Dental Program.
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<p>Last year, <strong>Open Arms Children’s Health Medical </strong>provided care for all Home of the Innocents residents as well as 601 patients from our community. They reach out to agencies helping under-served individuals around the Kentucky and Southern Indiana, which has led to a new partnership with children and families involved with Kentucky Refugee Ministries.
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<p><strong>Open Arms Children’s Health Dental </strong>served nearly 300 non-residential patients in addition to the patients and residents of the Home. Through the Social Innovation Fund grant from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, high-risk youth are receiving much needed services, while dental students and residents from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry are gaining first-hand knowledge and skill in treating children with special health care needs.
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Program:
Community Based Services
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Human Services
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Mentally/Emotionally Disabled
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Homeless
Program Description:
<p >Our Community Based Services (CBS) programs offer a variety of targeted wrap-around services. The IMPACT Plus program strives to decrease children’s risk of hospitalization or out-of-home placement. Master’s level clinical specialists provide intensive in-home therapy for children with behavioral healthcare needs and their families, while case managers coordinate services to meet the specific needs of each family.
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<p >The Home’s Autism Program has become our region’s leading provider of services for children with autism. The program uses Applied Behavioral Analysis, an evidence-based therapy with proven effectiveness in treating Autism Spectrum Disorders. Expert staff create individualized treatment plans to address the unique needs of each child.
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<p >Our Aftercare program assists at-risk young adults, ages 18-24, with the transition to independent living in the community. Many Aftercare clients have been in foster care, are homeless, or are victims of domestic violence. Emphasis is placed on employment, education, and life skills development with the goal of self-sufficiency.
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<p>The <strong>Autism</strong> <strong>Department</strong> served 113 clients last year. Our Autism Program has worked hard to expand funding sources for growing services, which now include commercial insurance and the Michelle P. Waiver. The department boasts three Board Certified Behavior Analysts who work with Autism Intervention Specialist to implement effective treatment plans.
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<p>The <strong>Aftercare</strong> <strong>Program</strong> provided services for 78 young adult clients and their 87 children from the new on-campus administrative offices in the Bradley Center. The Cornerstone peer support group continues to be the foundation of Aftercare’s success: Last year, eleven students graduated from Cornerstone by achieving educational goals and maintaining stable housing and employment.
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<p>After 18 years at Christ Church Cathedral, Cornerstone also relocated to the Home’s main campus in the Advanced Therapy Center gym, offering more dining and child care areas, and allowing for future program growth.
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Program:
Advanced Therapy Center
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Health Care
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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General Public/Unspecified
Program Description:
<p>The Kay and Jim Morrissey Advanced Therapy Center (ATC) offers new opportunities to clients of the Home and families from all over the community. The ATC features a heated saltwater therapy pool with several classes each week and a large therapy gym.
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<p>Residents and clients of the Home, as well as 554 visitors from the community used the <strong>Kay and Jim Morrissey Advanced Therapy Center</strong> in the last year. The ATC offers aquatic therapy classes and private lessons that can be tailored to accommodate special needs. Thanks to an innovative program that is the only one of its kind in the country, medically fragile children on ventilators are now able to benefit from aquatic therapy. The KCPCC Respiratory Therapy Director constructed an airtight container that holds a ventilator which floats with the child in the water. This allows total freedom to be in the water and use pool equipment with the help of a physical or occupational therapist. </p>