Group Care
Cross Roads group home is an eight bed, twenty four-hour treatment residence located in Edmonton for youth with long term care needs. Cross Roads will focus primarily on education, counselling, cultural involvement and involving each youth in a community activity as well as dealing with personal issues on a daily basis.
This will be accomplished by working with a variety of organizations and resources to reconnect our Indigenouschildren with their heritage. Community outings will be incorporated into programming for cultural activities. Daily smudges and ceremonies such as Round Dances and Sweats will be an integral part of programming for the the promotion of healing and strengthening as well as to empower the youth to focus on a healthy body, mind and spirit.
The home will also provide qualified clinicians, consultants and Elders. As well, as a wide variety of community recreationalactivities to stimulate and enhance the lives of our youth.
Cross Roads will also provide driving services, and supervision to children or families during designated visits; assurance of adequate care and safety of the child while traveling to and from, as well during the visit.
Care givers will be selectively chosen based on their skills and knowledge, and staff of Indigenous descent will play a substantial role in providing a traditional environment. Amongst the vast array of qualified staff, we have an Indigenous Resource Person whoserves the mandate of Cross Roads with personal knowledge and experience of Indigenous children, families and communities.She is always willing to teach and support the youth in the beliefs and behaviors that result from the richness of the Indigenousculture and heritage.
Transition to Adulthood Program
(Semi Independent Living)
Cross Roads Youth Care Transition to Adulthood is a Supported Independent Living Program (T-SIL). It provides community based services to adolescents ages fifteen to twenty-one years old with child welfare status or persons with developmental disabilities status. The primary objective of T-SIL is to assist teens with acquiring the necessary skills and experience to live independently in the community or moving on from Cross Roads group care.
Every youth in the program receives the assistance of a youth worker who provides a range of supports based on the youths needs. Intensive living skills training, homework support, youth worker support weekly, financial and emotional support, and familiarity with community resources makes it possible for the teen to manage their own lives.
Supported Independent Living services are provided basically through the two components outlined below (however, other living arrangements can be accommodated under some circumstances).
Community Component
The community program provides youth, on an individual basis, help and support to live in their own accommodations so they can eventually become fully independent. They will live in an area of their choice which is accessible to their work, school etc with minimal supervision.
T.S.I.L Component
In this program youth will live in a house with a full furnished basement suite, which has a full bathroom, kitchen and bedroom with a separate entrance from upstairs. The youth will receive supports from a part time youth worker as well he/ she will have a family living upstairs right above the suite which will provide on going supervision and a place the teen may visit when he/she needs assistance. T.S.I.L. teens are provided with the same services as community teens but in a more structured and supervised environment.
In both components of the program youth receive all or a combination of the following supports and services:
- Access to twenty four hour on call emergency staff
- Individualized supports from a youth worker
- Assessment and instruction on living skills
- Support network development
- Help with maintaining a day program (either work or school)
- The provisions of monies for rent and utilities, food, personal incidentals, clothing, laundry, and a monthly bus pass
Social Services Responsibility
To place a youth in our Supported Independent Living Program (T-SIL) the Case Worker is responsible for the following:
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- School registration fees.
- School transportation fees if specialized bussing is necessary
- On going counseling
- Drives or driver escorts (outside of the Edmonton City limits)
- One on One crisis support (after the first 48 hours)
- Recreation (speciality registered recreational courses or activities that require individual memberships such as boxing clubs, karate clubs, hockey teams/equipment, etc)
- Cell phones
- Start up costs – A one time fee of $ 500.00 will be charged
- Attend case conferences and maintain contact with T-SIL staff regarding ongoing casework or changes in case plans.
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