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Social Service: Meaning of an Open Setting

What Boys Is St. Peter's Is Good For?

St. Peters Home for Boys is an open residential setting. It is a Pre Supervised Independent Living setting. The boys at St. Peters are able to earn a limited full access to the community. They may earn the privilege of leave property without being accompanied by an adult. This level of freedom allows them to attend public schools, have friends in the community who they can visit at St. Peters Home and have an opportunity to engage in weekend dating activities. The setting is very similar to the freedom a boy might have in a foster home setting, but these freedoms are earned by progressing through the residential program and the educational program.

A boy upon entering St. Peters Home for Boys does not have any of the freedoms associated with an open setting. A boy must follow the structured residential and educational program paths to demonstrate his ability to handle free choices and must continuous progress toward meeting educational goals and social responsibility goals to merit recommendation to return back to the community in either a relatives home placement, a foster home placement or Supervised Independent Living placement.
 

St. Peter's Home

Is Appropriate For

Boys who can benefit and handle a loosely structured program

Boys who are able to live in co-operative living environment

Boys who are able to handle and willing to take open setting responsibilities

St. Peter's Home

Is NOT

Appropriate For

 
Boys in need of a lock up type facility

Boys with severe histories of delinquent behaviors

Boys in need of a highly structured  psychiatric setting

Boys who have a history of frequent AWOL behavior

Boys who are incapable or unwilling to take some self-responsibility

An Open Setting Means

Boys attend public school setting, when academically capable

Boys are allowed to checkout into the community and bring friends to the agency

Boys are allowed and encouraged to date weekly

Boys are not prevented from going AWOL, continuous AWOL patterns will lead to recommended discharge to closed setting.

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