Program areas at Forgotten Angels
Residential Services: Forgotten Angels' homes are located in various neighborhoods in Houston, Texas. Each beautiful home has a maximum of four clients, with staff assistance and supervision 24 hours daily. Recipients receive assistance with activities of daily living, meal planning, and preparation, providing or procuring transportation, and help with ambulation and mobility. Staff reinforces counseling and therapeutic activities, assists with medications and performing tasks delegated by our Registered Nurse, and monitors recipients' safety and security. This service also includes activities that facilitate clients' inclusion in community activities. Clients may attend dances, holiday parties, sporting events, parks, grocery stores, and shopping malls.
See Schedule ODay Habilitation: Provides age-appropriate enrichment activities and community interaction for participants Mondays through Fridays from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. Instructive components of the program include staff assistance with clients acquiring, retaining, and improving self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills, as well as providing individuals with age-appropriate activities to enhance self-esteem and maximize functional level. In addition, training and support activities promote clients' integration and participation in the community and assist individuals who cannot manage their care needs during day habilitation activities. Participants in our Day Habilitation Program enjoy trips to the zoo, movie theater, bowling alley, museums, Galveston's Ripley Sea Turtle Hatchery, arts and crafts activities, exercise classes, pizza parties, picnics at local parks, rides on the Bolivar Island Ferry, Bar-B-Ques and visits with older adults at a local senior citizen center.
Host Home/Companion Care: Care providers assist clients with grooming, eating, bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene. Participants in this program also receive assistance with meal planning and preparation, housekeeping, medications, ambulation, and mobility. Foster Care Providers secure or provide transportation, reinforce counseling and therapy activities, assist with supervision of recipients' inclusion in community activities, and community services. Participants in the Foster Care Program become part of a family. They enjoy rich and rewarding experiences through social interactions, loving support, and participation in leisure activities. They also receive habilitation and are provided with other assistance to support the development of daily living and independent living skills.