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Wellspring Newsletter
Wellspring Program Updates
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The ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ Program has faced many changes in the past year. Since June of 2006, the program has been working to establish cohesion as a residential community.
As a program, the Team is working on Team cohesion, Program redesign, Level System revision, and re-working the Resident Handbook. We have an annual Autumn Bulb Planting event and, last autumn, it was a fantastic success – and this spring, the flowers were bountiful and beautiful.!
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| Children's Residential Program |
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The CHILDREN’S program has continued to remain at full census in Shiloah, and our Day School Elementary program is consistently growing. We are continuing to work at strengthening both these programs, preparing for an eventual physical move to provide the much needed space to develop and grow the Elementary Day School and extended day treatment program.
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| Adult Residential Program |
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Our ADULT PROGRAM at Angelus House is operating at full capacity with ten men and women. The Work Program is flourishing, a 2nd Adventure Program per week has been added, and the adults are involved in several community building activities. Our clientele come from all over the USA and a sliding fee schedule is in place now to assist families and bring treatment to successful completion.
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| Arch Bridge School |
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The ELEMENTARY SCHOOL program provides a full day education program for day students, children from the residential program, and children from the new Pendana Group Home. We have worked hard to meet the challenge of maintaining the essential components of a school program that has proven to be successful while meeting the more intensive needs of this student population.
The focus for the 2006 – 2007 school year for the HIGH SCHOOL/MIDDLE SCHOOL program was on enhancing our effectiveness in addressing the students’ specific learning disabilities, as well as meeting their emotional and behavioral needs. Computers and the internet are again available in all classrooms and are being used for keyboarding skills, research projects, and presentations. Ralph Scafariello, the new Assistant Director of Education, arranged to rent the gym at a local private high school for Physical Education classes, allowing us to provide a more comprehensive PE curriculum.
We are working as part of the Task Force on Created Matter to reinvigorate programs, including the school programs, with Wellspring’s core philosophy regarding the therapeutic value of work and created matter and their relationship to healing.
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| Outpatient Services |
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Wellspring’s new OUTPATIENT SERVICES facility, The Wellspring Counseling Center for Children & Families, opened for service in April 2006. Located at Crossroads Plaza East on Straits Turnpike in Middlebury, CT (less than 1 mile from I-84, exit 17). The new facility complements the Main Campus Outpatient Services location in Bethlehem, CT, providing clients from the southern and central parts of the state a second convenient location.
Wellspring is also proud to announce that Mark Johnson, LMFT, has come on board as the new Coordinator of Outpatient Services. Mark joins the Wellspring staff with a proven track record of success as both a leader & psychotherapist. Mark will be coordinating an Outpatient staff of talented individuals including: Monica Kim Roberts, LMFT, Psychotherapist; Randi Nathan-Hall, LCSW, Psychotherapist; Daria Kiernan, APRN, providing Psychiatric Services; John Ewing, MD, Supervising Psychiatrist; and Livia Fiordelisi, Administrative Assistant.
The Outpatient Services is augmented by an impressive group of fee for service psychotherapists and consultants from Wellspring’s Programs and the Wellspring Institute. This group includes David Ferguson, LCSW; Sharon Gomes, LCSW; Jeffrey Culhane, MS; Renee Cull-Grossenbacher, LCSW; Joseph Mancinone, LMFT; Terry Welsh, LCSW; Herbert Hall, M.Ed; and Richard Beauvais, Ph.D. The Outpatient Services is also supported by Dan Murray, Psy.D., who is Director of Programs & Clinical Services for Wellspring.
Wellspring’s Outpatient Services works within Wellspring’s basic treatment philosophy acknowledging that each person and family is unique with different needs and that no single approach works for everyone. Wellspring relies on an impressive level of experience and expertise that allows each person and problem to be addressed in a comprehensive and individualized way – using verbal, non-verbal, cognitive, expressive and experiential means. It is the Outpatient Services mission to assist adults, children and families in working through the emotional and psychological difficulties which prevent them from establishing and maintaining healthy and meaningful lives and relationships.
For more information, please contact Livia Fiordelisi at (203) 758-2296.
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| Group Home |
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In 2006, a new program joined the Wellspring Family: our GROUP HOME for children.
The PENDANA GROUP HOME (Pendana is Swahili for “Love One Another”) officially opened its doors on October 13, 2006 to boys and girls, ages 5-9, who are referred by the Department of Children and Families. DCF presented Wellspring with a grant to establish a therapeutic model for the kind of group home they could place some of the hundreds of children that are currently in hospitals. Diagnoses of the children include Mood Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, PTSD, and Reactive Attachment Disorder. Within a few weeks of opening, 4 children were admitted – Pendana is licensed for a maximum of 5 children.
Our Group Home model closely resembles our successful Children’s Program in terms of therapeutic supports and interventions. The majority of the therapy is centered on home living and socialization activities, with the staff providing a stable, loving environment for healing and teaching life skills to the children through copious amounts of nurturing, structuring…and fun!
Helping to empower the children into owning and caring for their surroundings (both indoors and out) is at the foundation of the Wellspring Community – and will continue to be at the Group Home. It is our intention to prepare our children for a successful return home or foster/pre-adoptive placement as effectively and expediently as possible.
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