Program areas at Loving Hands Childrens Home
Loving Hand's Children's Home offers Medically fragile foster children a loving home environment and wraparound care services in addition to continuity of medical care. Skilled Nursing Care is provided around the clock and various therapies and activities are made available in effort to improve healthcare outcomes and maintenance. We provide triage of wraparound services that improve the long-term outcomes for our children, giving them the best chance of healthy transition and positive life outcomes. We served 42 clients with in-home care.
Animal Therapy program via Emotional Support Pets. We utilize animal therapy to improve social, emotional, and cognitive functioning.
Youth Empowerment Program teaches valuable independent living skills. We empower and teach older foster youth the important life skills necessary to make a smooth traction into adulthood, granting our clients increased relationship skills, enhanced self esteem, self confidence, improved behavior and interpersonal skills, better decision making & problem solving skills and trusted adults to turn to when in need. We aim to improve the lives of children and teens in foster care, those transitioning out of the foster system, as well as support families. We have developed programs designed to promote more positive life outcomes and to amplify potential outcomes for our youth. When youth are granted access to information & resources and are able to share regular positive interactions with trusted adults, there is a significant decrease in the likelihood of drug and/or alcohol abuse, crime and under age pregnancy. We served 725 children. We also added a 5-acre Calabasas location to create a Therapeutic Recreation Space, and a Greenbush location to hold Youth Empowerment events and swim classes for youth.
Edible Forest offers practicality and teaches us how to live interdependently without exhausting our resources. We teach children about natural, healthy, clean food choices which will lend itself to better life choices and health outcomes as they grow and continue to learn.