Westview Boys' Home, Inc.

Westview Boys' Home will maintain continuous quality improvement of its residential program, using Trust-Based Relational Intervention to teach young men how to cope with life, school, and their futures. Westview team members will train parents in TBRI methods to improve the likelihood and success of reunited families. We will improve our qualitative and quantitative measures to better evaluate our progress.  Preventative Interventions - Working with parents (particularly adoptive or foster parents), teachers, and law enforcement, Westview Family Services will educate others in trauma-sensitive methodologies to prevent foster and residential placements and to improve the quality of life for children from hard places.  Facilities and Equipment - Westview will continue to improve its use of its land, facilities, and equipment to better serve our young men. Judicious purchases and careful resource usage will model good stewardship for those in care.

Westview has employed a social worker to track the quality of our work using qualitative and quantitative means. Data obtained will be analyzed and reported to the team, board, and donors to identify areas of promise and potential.  Preventative Interventions - Westview will use its Family Services division to provide quality instruction in the care of traumatized youth. This contextually sensitive curriculum is designed for parents, teachers, and law enforcement and will be presented at churches, schools, and government facilities. We will add counseling staff to increase our preventative capabilities.  Facilities and Equipment - Westview continues to partner with interested donors, churches, and foundations to replace equipment as it ages out of service. Westview works with the USDA on land management issues.

Westview has a strong caregiver and social services team working with facilities and equipment in excellent working condition. We plan to add personnel to better implement our strategy. Westview has built a ropes course and disc golf course to provide new programming opportunities. Grants are being sought to obtain the necessary technology.  Preventative Interventions - Westview has two TBRI practitioners on staff; we are training an additional person to help increase our capability of pursuing our strategic plan of preventative work. Our Oklahoma City office provides a central location for our clients.  Facilities and Equipment - We provide or secure with partners important preventative maintenance and repair work as required to keep our equipment safe and in good operating condition.

We have been able to finish our hiring processes to complete our staffing requirements so as to meet our mission and progress on our strategic plan.  Over the course of 2021, one of Westview Family Services' preventative trial programs succeeded in providing parental coaching so as to keep six young men out of foster or residential care. We are currently working to scale up that program. WFS personnel have trained over 100 residential child care personnel in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) in 2021. Westview Boys' Home continues to improve the graduation rate for at-risk young who come into our care; over the last decade, 98% of our alumni are high school graduates, compared to 85% for all Oklahoma high schools.