United Cerebral Palsy Of Rhode Island Inc

Currently Children and Family Services (CFS) offers the following services: 1) Home based Therapeutic Services (HBTS), 2) Personal Assistance and Support Services (PASS), 3) Enhanced Outpatient Services (EOS). Our HBTS program is family-centered and our treatment philosophy is strength-based. The program continues the tradition of this agency of helping people with disabilities live in the least restrictive, most integrated setting possible. Family-centered service delivery sees the family as the unit of attention and organizes assistance in a collaborative fashion, taking into account the individual family's wishes, strengths, and needs. A clinician designs the treatment plan with the family and oversees the implementation of the plan in the home. A psychologist, speech therapist, and physical therapist provide consultation as needed. Parent participation is essential to maximize therapeutic effectiveness. Our program utilizes a social-emotional-developmental perspective and draws on the following therapeutic models: Dan Seigels Whole Brained Child, Stanley Greenspan's Floortime, Social Thinking, and Ross Greene's Collaborative and Proactive Solutions Model. A direct care professional works 1:1 with the child in their home and other community settings. Services focus on helping children with disabilities improve communication, social skills, coping skills, and daily living skills. They enhance a childs ability to participate in their family and community. UCP currently serves about 76 children in this program. The PASS program is a parent driven program. Parents act as a family supervisor for the direct care worker, which allows families to have greater choice and control over all aspects of service provision. The agency offers a supporting role to promote a childs ability to reach their full potential in 3 main areas: ability to accomplish essential activities of daily life; ability to make self-preserving decisions; ability to participate in social roles and social settings. The agency provides a clinician to help the parents develop their plan and provide consultation to parents regarding how to implement goals. UCP currently serves about 17 children in this program. Enhanced Outpatient Services (EOS) is an insurance funded program. UCP currently has a contract with Neighborhood Health Plan and United Behavioral Health Community. The program provides intense short-term, home based services to children with developmental disabilities and behavioral disorders who are either being discharged from a psychiatric hospital or who are at risk of being hospitalized. EOS provides family services which allow children to leave the hospital sooner and stay at home. Services are designed to meet each individual child and family's needs and may include family and individual counseling, direct 1:1 treatment in the home, and community integration with the primary goal being stabilization and prevention of re-hospitalization. We range from 10-20 cases at a time in this program.

UCPRI offers an Adaptive Arts Program in different formats and localities. The first is community based and is offered at the Main Office. Individuals already supported by UCPRI and people from the community participate in adaptive art classes in three different classes. The second format occurs in the Slater Hospital System at both the Zambarano and Cranston campuses. In both formats, different mediums of artist expression are explored and people have the opportunity to sell their work at different sales and shows throughout the year. Artists benefit from increased self-esteem by creating and selling their work. The benefits of an expression in a hospital setting are well documented and are seen in the patients in the Slater Hospital Program. In addition UCPRI coordinates music and pet therapies at the local hospitals. The benefits of both therapies are well documented.