Specialized Habilitation
Our Specialized Habilitation Program can help you create healthy relationships, adapt to challenges, and improve your overall quality of life. Your Specialized Habilitation Peer Coach will support you as you as you learn or maintain a range of life skills in any of the following categories:
- Self Empowerment
- Safety Awareness and Self Advocacy
- Interpersonal Effectiveness and Effective Social Communication
- Coping Strategies for Everyday Life Challenges
- Managing Daily Tasks and Acquiring Adaptive Skills
Specialized Habilitation supports will help enhance your well-being, create healthy relationships, navigate challenges, and improve their overall quality of life. Learning takes place in the classroom setting and the community.
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.“
~Eleanor Roosevelt
Overview
Specialized habilitation services are available to DDA clients ages 18 years and above enrolled in the Individual and Family Services waiver, Basic Plus waiver, Core waiver, the Roads to Community Living grant, and/or the Preadmission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR).
Specialized habilitation is not available to those receiving residential habilitation services.
- Private pay is accepted.
- Hourly rate for DDA clients and private pay clients is $70 per hour for individualized sessions
- The Tavon Learning Center will serve as the pickup and drop-off location ONLY. Your Specialized Habilitation Peer Coach will meet you at Tavon to begin services off site. The client is responsible for pickup and drop-off either with Access or personally.
How To Get Started
- Reach out to your DDA Case Manager about Specialized Habilitation through the Tavon Learning Center to see if you are eligible.
- Establish two to three target goals within one of the 5 Specialized Habilitation Categories.
- Contact Holly: holly@tavoncenter.org
What you’ll need prepared when contacting Holly:
- Availability for Services
- Ideas for proposed goals
- Case Manager’s Contact Information (Phone and Email)
- Your Contact Information (Phone and Email)
Categories
SELF EMPOWERMENT
Building self-esteem and confidence
Reflecting on personal values and skills
Adjusting behavior to reach goals and handle problems
SAFETY AWARENESS & SELF ADVOCACY
Safely navigating life online and in the community
Learning about sexuality and healthy personal relationships
Learning to say no, or asking for what is needed
INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS & EFFECTIVE SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
Developing listening skills
Balancing goals with ‘wants’ and ‘shoulds’
Learning how to uphold and maintain personal values
COPING STRATEGIES FOR EVERYDAY LIFE CHALLENGES
Missing the bus
Adjusting to a new caregiver, roommate or family member
Moving to a new home
LEARNING NEW SKILLS
Ordering food in a restaurant
Shopping and paying for things
Paying bills and managing money
The Benefits of Specialized Habilitation are MANY!
The Specialized Habilitation Program focuses on helping you meet your individual goals in order to achieve independence, self-awareness, self- confidence and quality of life.
Classroom work allows members to learn skills and community connections allows real-life opportunities to practice the newly learned skills.
Interested in getting started?
Contact our Program Director
Holly Berman
Email: holly@tavoncenter.org
Phone: (425) 736-8840
