Our Person-Centered
Embracing best practices and evidence-based methods, we are committed to providing respectful, compassionate care tailored to each individual’s needs and not their diagnosis, and helping every individual reach their highest level of independence.
What Person-Centered Means to Us
We meet or exceed the current standards set by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for person-centered planning and care.
Gentle Teaching
We provide a culture of care with consistency and structure in a compassionate manner, ensuring individuals feel valued and cared for.
Trauma Informed Care
We create and facilitate positive, supportive environments to help individuals feel physically comfortable and safe.
Freedom of Choice
We support freedom of choice for daily living experiences such as meals, visitors, and sleep schedules.
Ensured Access to Care
We coordinate and integrate needed mental and physical health services, medication compliance, administration, and monitoring.
Community Integration
We foster community engagement to build a sense of connectedness in the lives of the people we serve.
Comfort and Safety
Our approach to care promotes an environment and culture of safety and healing.
Emotional Support
We listen to the individuals we support and tailor our work to what’s important to and for them.
Skill Development
Everything we teach and do is in an effort to help individuals live as independently as possible.
Improving Behaviors
We get to the root of challenging behaviors and work with individuals to make positive changes.
In-Home Support
Part of our continued focus on independence includes providing in-home services, support, and training to help individuals live in their own homes or to assist family members and caregivers in providing quality care for their loved ones.
For Individuals, Their Family Members, & Caregivers
Our person-centered methods are tailored to in-home levels of care.
In-Home Family Support
We provide essential support to families (including extended family members), to help them continue or resume caring for a loved one.
Supported Living Services (SLS)
We offer in-home staff support on a daily basis for challenging behaviors and medical or physical needs.
ILS Training
We offer in-home training and assistance with independent living skills including hygiene and basic housekeeping.
24-Hour Emergency Assistance
We are available for on-call counseling, problem solving, and immediate, in-home assistance with health or personal emergencies.
Short-Term & Crisis Respite
We provide necessary care services or intervention when a person’s primary caregiver is absent or needs relief, or a medical/behavioral crisis arises.
Adult Foster Care
We provide specialized residential adult foster care in licensed and unlicensed settings. Our ongoing residential care and supportive services for adults are individualized based on the needs of each person as identified in their unique support plan.
Beacon Is a Place to Call Home
Our residences offer safe, comfortable, family-style living.
ILS Training
We offer training and assistance with independent living skills including hygiene and basic housekeeping.
Medication Compliance
Our staff ensures medication compliance, administration, and monitoring.
Care Coordination
We coordinate and integrate needed mental health and physical health services.
Transportation
Individuals are taken to appointments, shopping, visitations or community events.
Healthy Eating
Our staff ensures home-prepared nutritious meals and snacks and accommodate specialized dietary needs.
Community Integration
We coordinate community programs, recreational activities, recovery groups, and more.
Financial Assistance
We help residents obtain financial assistance and maintain their personal financial affairs.
Crisis Intervention
Our staff provides counseling, problem solving and immediate intervention — on call 24/7 for health or personal emergency assistance.
Community Living Supports
We teach and encourage individuals to live independently and participate actively in their foster community.
Personal Care Services
Our staff assists with basic needs and daily self-care, like bathing, tooth brushing, toileting, etc.
Supported Living Services (SLS)
Our staff tends to challenging behaviors, medical and physical needs, and life skills on a daily basis.
Child & Adolescent Services
We care for young individuals with a wide range of emotional and physical health needs, providing nurturing, compassionate support, stability, advocacy, and coordination of care on both a short- and long-term basis and in times of crisis.
Child Respite Services
Session I: 3:00 p.m. Sunday – 11:00 a.m. Wednesday
Session II: 3:00 p.m. Wednesday – 11:00 am Sunday
We provide positive and enriching respite care to children when they need a break from their typical routines or their primary caregivers are unavailable. It’s our goal that the young people we serve look forward to respite and visit routinely as needed.
Centrally located and close to many activities, our respite sessions offer enrichment activities, community engagement and more:
- 1:1 staffing during the day with awake overnight staff
- Services geared towards people’s interests and what is important to them
- Opportunities to explore and try new things — movies, libraries, parks, shopping, etc.
- Self-reflection writing exercises to enrich time in and away from respite
These services are available to children aged 5-17 years in Minnesota only.
They are typically covered under individuals’ waivers (set up by their case manager),
however private pay and county pay are also options.
They are typically covered under individuals’ waivers (set up by their case manager),
however private pay and county pay are also options.
Child Foster Care
We provide ongoing residential care and supportive services in family and corporate foster care licensed settings to children younger than 18 years old who cannot be cared for in their biological or adoptive homes.
Child Foster Crisis Services
We offer short-term placement to help young individuals in times of urgent need. Considering what is important to and for them, we provide structured supports to help stabilize and transition them to less restrictive models of care.
These services are licensed to support children aged up to 18. Referrals are done in partnership with the Metro Crisis Coordination Program through Mt. Olivet Rolling Acres.
Clinical Services
Clinical staff are integral to the day to day support for our residents. They lead group and individual therapies, write and monitor individualized behavior treatment plans under the supervision of multiple behavior treatment committees, and providing ongoing training and support to in-home staff.
Our Clinical Team Includes Licensed & Certified Staff
We have licensed masters social workers, limited license masters social workers, limited license psychologists and professional counselors, board-certified behavior analysts, and certified advanced alcohol and drug counselors.
Motivational Interviewing
We use a psychotherapeutic approach to motivate our residents, moving them from indecision or uncertainty to positive decision-making, goal-setting, and achievement.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
A form of cognitive behavioral treatment, this informed group or individual therapy teaches mindfulness, emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance.
Addiction Services
We provide individual and group treatment to residents who suffer with substance use disorder.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
This informed individual or group psychotherapeutic treatment enables people to identify and change thought patterns that negatively influence behavior and emotions.
Seeking Safety
This individual or group therapy teaches coping skills that apply to both trauma and addiction, giving residents a new level of safety in their behaviors, emotions and relationships with others.
Pet Visitation
We allow animal-assisted therapy and activities to help people recover from or better cope with health problems and mental health disorders.
Medical & Psychiatric Services
Coordination and integration of care are important to our person-centered approach. That’s why we have nurses and psychiatrists on staff, and nursing staff are an integral part of the day to day support of our residential programs.
Nursing staff are assigned to Districts and oversee:
- Intake, Triage & Injections
- Semi-Annual AIMS Assessments
- Annual Healthcare Appraisals
- Annual Nursing Assessments
- Medical & Specialty Training
Our contracted psychiatrist provides:
- Quarterly Medication Reviews
- Annual Resident Evaluations
- On-Call, After Hours, Crisis Assistance
