At Short-Term Residential, participants reside in a beautiful home located in a safe community in Woodland Hills. At the Long-Term program, from day one, participants live in local apartment complexes, which provide a real-life environment.  At all levels of care, therapeutic groups are integrated into the daily program to teach skills related to emotional, social, vocations, and adaptive functioning. Some of these include social skills, dating/relationships, fitness, communication, nutrition, healthy living and self-care. They experience real-life situations to practice the skills they have acquired in their individual and group experiences. They learn to function in diverse communities, understanding how to communicate and respect others who are different from themselves. 

At the Long-Term program, they learn to cook for themselves and to grocery shop. We help them search for paid or non-paid work opportunities that permit a greater sense of independence, self-esteem and the meaning of responsibility. They learn to budget their own weekly allowance, learn to appropriately monitor their use of personal cell phones and computers, and learn to demonstrate time management skills. They can date, socialize and still have fun. But they do this in a safe environment, with varying levels of supervision that are there to help them recognize and recover from mistakes and errors in judgment