Assurance Home is flexible and can offer young people different options when it comes to their living arrangements. We are here, whether they need temporary respite care, short-term shelter care or longer lasting supportive care. We offer them a beautiful, homelike setting, surround them with loving adults and offer them therapeutic opportunities to help them cope and thrive. We also give them love, encouragement and exposure to avenues of success.
Young people who are typically accepted for placement in the Assurance Home therapeutic group home are those who:
- Have been abused and/or neglected.
- Who have moderate behavioral and/or emotional problems that require treatment.
- Have experienced childhood trauma such as Domestic Violence.
- Have been exposed to negative living situations with drug abuse and/or crime.
- Have been abandoned and are homeless.
- Have had multiple placements or difficulty adjusting to family environments.
- Have had little or no involvement with the criminal justice system.
- Male or female.
- Are 13 to 17 years of age (Multi-Service Home) or 16 to 23 years of age (Transitional Living Program).
- Are Medicaid eligible.
Although most of our young people fit the above criteria, there are certainly exceptions. If you feel a child may benefit from the therapeutic environment offered at Assurance Home but have questions about the appropriateness of a referral, we hope that you will call and talk it over with us.