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Our skills groups are fine-tuned to fit the needs of clients at each of the BFL program locations.
Transitional Housing Living Skill Groups
Job Club (Let’s Get Working)
Addresses useful skills when considering employment. This includes: evaluation of one’s skills and interests, hygiene, proper dressing, communication skills and effective writing skills. Participants are alerted to the Americans with Disabilities Act provisions for the handicapped with respect to employment. Group leaders will also invite speakers to address specific topics that interest the residents.
Housing Issues: (Welcome Home)
Addresses different types of housing available, time management, basic communication skills necessary to interview for housing, dealing with government agencies, and the proper method to voice their complaints.
Healthy Living / Nutrition
Aimed at increasing health awareness. Involves cooking, in the training kitchen and meaningful discussions of health topics related to stroke, diabetes, other diagnoses, and healthy eating habits.
Life Skills/Home Management
Addresses issues that residents will encounter upon discharge from BFL as they transfer to independent living. Issues include home accessibility, community resources, money management, safety issues in the community and at home, time management, organization and identification of household supplies that can be purchased on food stamps.
Money Management (Show Me The Money)
Promotes a more effective and efficient way to manage finances. Group members learn about banking options, paying bills and creating a budget. A budgeting system is established. The leader will provide the group members with education on basic financial matters and allow for members to create and solve hypothetical (or real) situations in a group setting.
Coping Skills
(Conflict resolution, stress and anger management) Introduces members to methods for recognizing the physiological signs and emotional reactions to anger. Healthier ways to express and manage anger are discussed. Group members are encouraged to verbalize their experience of anger, discuss events that trigger anger and explore more appropriate and productive ways to express and deal with anger.
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