Adult Day Treatment Program (DTA)
Our Adult Day Treatment Program (DTA) is a program funded through the Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) for adults with disabilities age 18 and over.
INDIVIDUALIZED GOALS
All DTA consumers are assessed using the Assessment of Functional Living Skills (AFLS) to help inform the creation of individualized goals for their planning document.
AFLS Assesses 17 Skill Areas:
- Money Skills
- Time Skills
- Phone Skills
- Health and Safety and First Aide Skills
- Basic Communication
- Social Awareness and Manners
- Cooking Skills: Kitchen/Lunch Room
- Meals at Home
- Dishes
- Kitchen Skills
- Self-Management Skills
- Leisure
- Clothing and Laundry
- Community Knowledge
- Shopping
- Eating in Public
- Basic Mobility
Progress Monitoring:
- Monthly reports on goal progress are sent home to families.
- We do our best to attend planning meetings that are held every 90 days by a consumer’s DDD support coordinator.
ADULT PROGRAM (DTA) FACILITIES
Consumers work on their individualized goals in 7 physical areas in the DTA program with support provided as needed from Direct Support Professionals (DSP).
Room 1: Time, phone, and money skills
Room 2: Community knowledge and safety
Room 3: Basic communication
Kitchen: Kitchen skills like cooking, dining, and food management
Laundry Room: Clothing and laundry skills
Outdoor Garden Area, Sports Court, Swimming Pool:
Gardening, animal care, sports, exercise, and swimming
Community Places
COMMUNITY OUTINGS
Our consumers research and vote on where they would like to go each month. Examples of past outings:
Movies theater
Bowling
Grocery shopping
Zoo
Library
Museums
Goodwill
ENHANCEMENTS
Our DTA consumers also have the opportunity to participant in program enhancements like:
Weekly group Music Therapy sessions
Weekly Mindful Movement classes
Bi-monthly art lessons
Gardening in our in-ground gardens and garden boxes and harvesting produce to make new recipes
Tending chickens and selling their eggs to families and staff
FUN FRIDAYS
Who doesn’t want to have fun on Fridays? Our consumers are no exception. These are some activities they like to participate in:
Karaoke
Dance parties
Social games: “Minute it to Win It”, get to know you games, relay races, team building games etc.
Contact Us for More Information About L.I.F.E.
call us at 480-621-8361 EXT 127 or complete this form