Group Home

Residential Group Home

Positive Growth’s primary goal is to keep families safely at home together, although sometimes this simply isn’t possible. Occasionally, a youth needs to be in an out-of-home placement for a period of time. When this need occurs, our focus is to create an individualized service to work with the youth and his family, with the goal of returning the youth home and/or to an approved home as quickly and safely as possible. As in all of our services, we are committed to working with families as full partners, including them in developing goals and plans, while offering therapy and family-strengthening services.

We offer young men, a clean, safe and nurturing home-like environment grounded in compassion, wherein the youth may work through the issues of physical, emotional and/or psychological distress, behavioral disorders, delinquency, dysfunctional family relations and poor educational achievement, if needed in a structured, routine based environment.
Besides providing a clean, safe and nurturing environment, the objectives of Positive Growth Residential Services are to:

• enhance the general well being and self-esteem of the youth in our care
• encourage positive, responsible decision making
• help youth access social supports and community resources
• assist youth and families in positive resolution of family conflicts
• enhance social skills and life skills development
• enhance youth’s school performance

Our approach is structured so that the youth will gain the following abilities and skills:

• The ability to make productive life choices based upon sound logic and acting, or reacting, in a way that is appropriate to the situation.
• The ability to formulate long and short term goals and the skills to develop a plan to achieve those goals;
• The ability to foster healthy, productive relationships on all levels; be they with peers, authority figures, family members, etc.;
• The ability to behave appropriately with regard to their age, social development and respective of the situations and environments wherein they currently or will potentially traverse.

We serve young men from diverse backgrounds. We work on behalf of minors who have child welfare status and who are unable to live at home, that have had multiple placements in other child-care facilities, first time placement, emergency placement, encountered trouble with the law or have been adjudicated for non-personal crimes, have been removed from their homes as a result of abuse, neglect, abandonment or are in need of supervision. Youth accepted into the program may be experiencing education set-hacks, have strained relationships with their families, abuse drugs or alcohol, delinquency, refuse to seek help, are displaying out-of-control behavior, or experiencing at least moderate levels of emotional distress (e.g., depression, anxiety, oppositional behavior, compulsive behavior).

Positive Growth, Inc. is dedicated to helping our youth reach their greatest potential. Our emphasis is on providing quality care. Our youth have an opportunity to experience a stable foundation on which to build a wholesome and healthy life.