Our Services

Our Director will complete an Initial Health Assessment form for each youth referred to our program. The Director will assess the behavioral, social, emotional, psychological, and physical needs of the youth placed and collaborate with the service planning team to develop an Initial Service Plan to address each youth’s needs.
Haven’s have skilled nursing services available when needed and a designated, licensed psychiatrist to provide medication management and monitoring for our youth. Our Director will ensure that our youth are not left on medication for long periods of time without proper evaluation to ensure that each medication is serving its purpose.
Many youth in care do not even know why they are taking some prescription medications and cannot remember how long they have been taking it. We will ensure that our youth are educated on the medication they are taking during their medication management appointment and make sure they ask questions and verbalize any complaints or concerns they have voiced at home concerning any side effects of the medication.

We provide access to trauma focused, Christian based, counseling services including weekly individualized counseling sessions to assist youth in resolving emotional or behavioral issues.
We use evidence-based practices, including Recreational Therapy, in our counseling services and treatment will be given according to each individual service plan and needs of the youth.

Research has shown that youth who volunteer just one hour or more a week are 50% less likely to abuse alcohol, cigarettes, or engage in other destructive behavior. The benefits received from volunteering are learning to respect others; learning to be helpful and kind; learning to understand people who are different; developing leadership skills, becoming more patient, and better understanding of citizenship.
Community projects include activities such as volunteering to feed the homeless with the church or at the local shelter and community clean-up projects.

This is the heart of our youth program. The Director of Haven’s oversees this program. Our program teaches the youth the life/independent living skills needed to succeed as an adult as well as education and career planning.
We use Phillip Roy’s Online Life Skills program, which is a computerized curriculum of 77 online lessons and 4 face to face lessons taught by the Director of the organization. Within the curriculum are all the life skills required by the state of Florida. Education, career planning, social skills, and budgeting are ongoing skills discussed and practiced monthly. Each youth is to complete at least four lessons per week. There is a pre-test to evaluate their life skills prior to our program and a post- test to measure their improvement after our program.