Program areas at Eliada
Residential treatment accomplishments - 11 students were served in level iii. 82 % of students discharged to lower levels of care. Reuter cottage houses up to 6 students and the Eliada treatment center houses up to 8 students. In july, Eliada Homes opened the Eliada treatment center. Reuter: the students are very active in learning life skills. They each take a turn, once a week making dinner for the cottage. The students are motivated by cottage and individual motivators that are offcampus. Students are consistently hiking the blue ridge parkway and graveyard fields is their collective favorite. Eliada will be having their very first graduate in september of 2023, following the creation of a program model in 2022. Etc: the students are settling in well. Transitioning to day treatment without any difficulties, while learning the ins and outs of being in a level iii assessment center. The students are developing a great rapport with staff and therapists. The assessments with the student are going well. Group therapies such as equine and pet therapy are proven winners for these students. The etc students will often join the reuter students to engage in innercottage activities, such as swimming, playing basketball, playing volleyball, and even going to the nature center.
- Eliada academy continued with curriculum that was written in collaboration with the campus farm manager to provide students hands on activities and high school credits for two courses: agriscience applications and biology. - Eliada academy team members continued to provide transition support for both community students and residential students to help ensure that they receive academic and behavioral support upon returning to a more traditional school setting. - staff have remained flexible in their roles in the face of agency and staffing changes in order to provide as consistent of treatment as possible for students. - academy staff attended trainings for the zones of regulation curriculum in order to better incorporate the program into daily planning. - in spite of changes to staffing and the number of programs open, teaching staff has remained flexible in order to provide a high level of instruction across a wide range of content areas. - day treatment clinician continues to work with 1-2 interns per semester, and provide a high level of clinical support and supervision. Interns report high satisfaction with their internship experience in the day treatment program. - day treatment leadership staff has worked with the pqi department on quality improvement plans on students with high risk behaviors or high number of incidents in day treatment. - Eliada academy served 36 students.
Child development services accomplishments - child development: - five star licensed, maintained in all cd departments: child development achieved 14 out of a possible 15 points; and we received 1 additional quality point for enhanced policies and curriculum. - maintained high census in all of our programs. - construction is underway for adding a new building to cd. This new building will allow us to add 71 new students to our enrollment, these additional spots will range from infants to 3 year olds. Nc pre-k: - we started our year off with 67 children, we reach enrollment of 75 children by october. With the covid pandemic still going on in the world, ncpk paid for the full 80 alloted slots. - the children came in ready to make new friends, learn and grow. We as caregivers were excited for the challenge of having them ready for kindergarten in 2023. Development day: - we were unable to reach our census of 15 students due to parent concerns of covid and the needs of their children in a public setting. We did start our year out with 6 students and ended with 6 students enrolled with us by the end of the school year. - teachers had more quality time working one on one with our dd students due to the low numbers and was rewarded with seeing great improvements in their targeted skills by the end of the school year. Summer camp: - we were able to support 75 families in our 2022 summer camp. We were able to take the campers off campus to enjoy scheduled field-trips, these trips included the skating, otter watter park, blue-ridge assembly and osega gymnastics. School age: - we were able to open up for the fall school year of 2022 with 53 spaces to help families that needed after school care. We offered afternoon care and full days when schools were closed. We had a healthy and happy learning environment for the school age children to learn and explore in.
Other program services include community based services which are: foster care, enhanced therapeutic services, agricultural activities, and a vocational program. Foster care and foster-to-adopt program: served 23 foster care students in both family foster care and therapeutic foster care. 2 children adopted into their forever families. 2 children were reunited with biological family. 4 children were discharged to other services. 8 families renewed their foster care license. Equiine services: equine had 15 new intakes and served 30 total clients. Equine conducted 403 outpatient sessions. 42 therapy groups for reuter cottage, 78 classes and group therapy for Eliada academy, and 33 classes for green respite cottage. Unfortunately, the equine program had 3 horses pass away during the year. Intensive in-home services (iih): iih served 18 families with 90% successfully stepping to a lower level of care. Iih was able to expand by adding another team to the program with the goal to serve even more families in the community. Iih has collaborated with senior leadership on standardizing procedures and creating a more productive workflow. Iih has built successful relationships with community resources and agencies in order to better serve families.