Tier 1. Transitional Living in a home environment
Our graduated tiers are based on experience integrating new residents.
Why we start with the Transitional Home setting
We get to know our residents.
Since most residents start in the structured, on-campus group-living environment, we can observe and facilitate their social interactions, their ability to initiate, organize, and complete work projects.
We can assess their independent living skills. We can develop annual goals. We can then guide residents into the program activities that they most need to foster growth.
Residents make friendships at their pace.
Living in a group environment gives residents daily opportunities to interact with others and form friendships.
Our trained staff is on-site 24/7, to solve and resolve any issues that arise which become opportunities for learning and developing new skills. The friendships that result encourage residents to be an active part of our community.
Residents see others succeed.
As they demonstrate their abilities, residents progress to more independent living arrangements even within stages.
Working side by side with their peers helps them develop new skills. They begin to feel successful and confident in their ability to live independently.
Other residents can show a resident how it’s done.
“Many folks who enter our program have never lived away from home before.
“They live together in a home and they operate as a family. They learn how to cook, and clean and do their laundry, They learn to bank and budget, follow a schedule.
“We hope that they'll learn how to make a friend and keep a friend, how to get a job, and keep a job.
“Tier 1 is 24/7 teaching independent living skills and social skills. During that time, often about a year, we have very close contact with the resident’s family, telephone conferences weekly, a lot of give and take with the parents or family.
“And, at some point, the team knows the resident is ready to move to the second tier.”
— Moving Forward Staff