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Integrated Social and Life Skills

Social Skills and Healthy Living
Social skills are a foundation of life and integral to the core foundation for personal growth at Southeast Journeys. Our approach to developing social skills is highly personalized, beginning with individual assessments of a student's current level of strengths and challenges. An individual plan is created to structure lessons and activities that help each student succeed at their own pace. Students learn from modeling, practice and consistent feedback from peers and staff using both our structured social skills class and our insight-oriented group discussions that occur anytime a learning moment arises. The development of primary social skills, from personal hygiene, to shopping, to socially appropriate behavior with peers is so essential that improving social skills result in earning privileges within the program. These rewards motivate students, and also give each student the chance to apply what they have learned in the community.

At Southeast Journeys, students discover a healthy, active lifestyle that integrates exercise, good nutrition and self-awareness into their day-to-day lives. Making healthy choices part of the daily routine, students are able to incorporate these choices into their personal lifestyle while at the program and when they return home.