DISCOVERY HOME
Discovery Home promotes a family environment while cultivating independent living skills in preparation for early adulthood. Most of the adolescents/young adults in the program have no viable options for family, while others have identified emancipation as providing a more realistic opportunity to achieve success.
Discovery Home residents receive support and training in education, employment, life skills, home management, character-building and individualized and group mental health counseling. With encouragement and supervision from the group home parent and ancillary staff, the youth form a household and share responsibilities as they would in a family.
Discovery Home enables them to move toward accepting responsibilities of adulthood – attending and succeeding in school, finding employment, volunteering, enrolling in college or post-secondary training and ultimately becoming self-sufficient. Some clients receive therapeutic support from Philo Orphanage Home clinicians including experiential therapies like art and music as well as group therapy, mentoring and coaching while others receive services from community mental health, vocational, and/or rehabilitation service providers. While some clients attend Philo Orphanage Home's onsite therapeutic school, Bansbach Academy, others attend public or charter schools. All participants work on a personal roadmap for success that encourages them to take the steps they need in order to succeed personally and in the future.
“One of the things I like best about living at Discovery Home is that I get the chance to work and volunteer. It feels good to earn money and to give back to others.”
— Trina, Resident