Why we utilize a Strength-Based and Person Centered Approach

All families want the best for its members.  At Therapeutic Connections, we also want the best for your loved ones! Our company's motto is "where compassion and community come together". We understand that the family is a system where the behavior of one member affects and is influenced by all other members.  Families have the right to make decisions about their lives and the roles that indivduals play in supporting their issues. A strengths - based approach is an effectively proven model for both youth and adults with a mental health diagnosis.  By using this approach our team always focuses on the positive attributes of the persons served and their families!

 Strength-Based Model

• This approach values the capacity, skills, knowledge, connections and potential of the persons served to be successful in the community.
• It focuses on strengths, it does not mean ignoring challenges, or turning struggles into strengths.
• Our rehabilitation team identify ways to work in a collaboration-helping the persons served to become more independent and enhance the tools to positively appreciate accomplishments within themselves and others.
  
  

Person Centered Planning

Person-centered planning attempts to identify and highlight the unique talents, gifts and capabilities inherent in everyone.
The assigned Rehabilitation Coordinator works with the person served to explore and discover where in the “real” world these gifts can be shared and appreciated, and where the person’s contributions and social roles will be valued.

How Can Person Centered Planning Help?

• Focuses on the desires and abilities of the individual
• Involves a team of family members, friends, professionals and the person being served
• Team members are chosen by the persons served