Home Safe Enhanced Group Home

Home Safe operates a long term Group Home in West Palm Beach for 12 adolescent boys, ages 13 through 17, who have a combination of emotional and behavioral problems and/or delinquency involvement. Group care services are offered in an intensive, community-based, licensed residence, and are appropriate as a step-down from Residential Treatment, or step up from a less restrictive placement, or as an alternative placement, if an appropriate level of care is not available. Behavioral Health Overlay Services (BHOS) provide for clinical assessment and treatment for at-risk youth who have an ICD-9 diagnosis and demonstrated impairment in psychosocial functioning.

The services are intended to provide adolescents with a therapeutic milieu which is highly supportive, individualized, and flexible in a home-like setting. Services included in the program design are: 24/7 counseling and support, behavior management and strategies, Independent Living Skills, clinical treatment, mentoring, and crisis management. Youth attend public school or participate in a GED program and are expected to spend a significant amount of time in the community participating in recreational, social, and cultural activities and events that they can safely manage.

The goal of the program and services is to maximize strengths through positive experiences and reduce the incidence and frequency of behavior problems through gradual achievement of treatment goals and a predictable, consistent milieu. Youth will also learn how to navigate and network in the community, build a community-based support network and experience vocational and/or academic success. Youth may remain in this program until a less restrictive alternative placement is found or until an aftercare plan is devised for a transition to independent living.

Eligibility criteria includes:

Adolescent boys ages 13 – 17 with mental health and/or behavioral issues not related to serious cognitive or developmental disabilities.
Youth who have reached maximum benefit from a more restrictive setting or who have been unsuccessful in a less restrictive setting.
Youth with delinquency involvement
Youth for whom long term group care may be more appropriate than foster care and who will most likely transition to independent living.

Home Safe retains the right to make the final decision about an applicant’s appropriateness for admission. Applicants who represent a safety risk for the group and/or community may not be accepted. Home Safe does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity or religion.
For additional information, contact the Clinical Director at 561-383-9800 x 1233 or Director of Residential Services, 561-383-9800 x 1249.