Life Skills One on One Program

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Unique Alternatives Inc. One on One Life Skills Program is an educational & empowerment program that provides life skills to males and females from age 14 to adulthood. The primary aim of this service is to promote appropriate levels of self-sufficiency and productive daily living skills.

Our Program is designed to enable individuals to initiate the process of being productive citizens within their own localities, building accountability for their individualized life-long goals dreams and endeavors.

TREATMENT APPROACH:
The Strengths-Based Perspective focuses on identifying and building upon an individual’s abilities, resources, interests, and positive qualities rather than focusing primarily on limitations or deficits. In the context of Unique Alternatives Inc.’s One-on-One Life Skills Program, the approach helps individuals recognize their existing strengths and use them to develop greater independence and confidence.
The primary goal is to minimize the impact of weaknesses while maximizing the individual’s strengths and capabilities as they progress through different stages of human development. This perspective encourages individualized support, recognizes personal growth, and promotes the belief that every person has strengths that can be developed and applied to everyday life.

ASSESSMENT:
Unique Alternatives Inc.’s One-on-One Life Skills Program utilizes various assessment tools to assess and reassess individuals within their natural and community environments. These tools may include Eco-Maps, Independent Living Assessments, and Life Skills and Career Assessments.
The assessment process enables the Life Skills Support Counselor to identify the individual’s strengths, areas of need, available supports, and barriers to achieving greater independence. Information gathered through the assessment process is used to identify the individual’s primary needs and develop an individualized, ongoing Life Skills Plan.
The Life Skills Plan is reviewed and reassessed as needed to ensure that services remain relevant to the individual’s changing needs, goals, abilities, and level of independence. The overall goal is to provide individualized support that promotes skill development, self-sufficiency, community integration, and successful functioning in daily life.

PROGRAM TREATMENT PHASE:
The Unique Alternatives, Inc. Life Skills One-on-One Program provides individualized, skill-based services for a period of up to 120 days, with post-program follow-up services available for up to one year based on the individual’s identified needs and progress.

During the treatment phase, the Life Skills Counselor works extensively with the identified individual through structured, one-on-one interventions. Services may be provided for up to 10 hours per month, both in person and virtually, and may occur within the individual’s home and community settings.

The program focuses on addressing identified needs, strengthening independent living and daily functioning skills, improving problem-solving and decision-making abilities, developing healthy coping strategies, promoting effective communication and interpersonal skills, and increasing the individual’s ability to function successfully within the home and community. Services are individualized and designed to support measurable progress toward identified treatment goals and increased independence.