Programs

OVERVIEW OF OUR PROGRAMS

Jackson-Feild Homes offers a variety of programs and services dedicated to the female adolescent population from age 13 up to age 21. We offer three distinct programs on our main campus in Jarratt, Virginia and a transitional/independent living group home in Richmond. Our programs prepare young girls to develop into responsible and successful young women who can properly maintain a lifestyle that includes healthy relationships, a viable means for financial support, successful integration into their home community and the ability to care for their children and families. The programs and services we offer based upon the needs of the referred population include:

Jackson-Feild Homes’ main services are located on a 130-acre rural, tranquil campus setting on the Nottoway River in Jarratt, Virginia which is just one hour south of Richmond. Off-campus, Jackson-Feild Homes also operates a group home (The Eleventh House) for girls which offers a full array of services including transitional and independent living preparation as well as follow-up aftercare services in the community located in the heart of Richmond, Virginia.

PROGRAM EMPHASIS AND PHILOSOPHY

Jackson-Feild Homes is dedicated to providing residents with positive, constructive and healthy ways to manage and/or overcome a wide range of individual and family problems. The end goal is for the resident as well as her family and support system to be able to translate hers and their newly acquired skills when she returns to the home community or for her to develop her own support system in an independent living environment. Girls who are prescribed psychotropic medications are monitored by a Board Certified Psychiatrist. Full family participation is strongly encouraged, especially when family reunification is desired on discharge. Residents learn improved self-control and experience the increased positive self-esteem needed to enhance their life skills, interpersonal and social competencies and trusting attachments they need to successfully return to their home community or to begin living on their own independently.

Measurable Program Goals

• Successfully Prepare Girls for Living Independent as demonstrated through successful management of life skills in an independent living situation
• Successfully prepare girls for transition to home community with family, foster family or significant others
• Successfully enable mothers to bond with their infants and manage parenting and independent living simultaneously
• Successfully enable pregnant teens to deliver their babies safely and to plan for their futures to the benefit of the child and mother
• Successfully help girls to enhance their education and employment skills such that they are “marketable” to employers or enrolled in a post secondary educational program upon release
• Successfully prepare girls to have a means to support herself and her child(ren) upon release as appropriate through a home business, employment, education, supportive living situation or other similar scenario
• Successfully transition girls to a planned and safe living environment upon release.
  

Residents of Jackson-Feild Homes learn how to:

OUTCOME MEASURES

Outcome studies to determine the efficiency of the program and delivery of services are conducted at various intervals.

Pre and Post Testing is utilized to measure the effectiveness of the Neurotherapy services.

Program environment is measured through the COPES model: Community Oriented Program Environment Scale which provides comparative data on what staff and residents “desire” the program to be versus how they “view” it to be. This tool is used to make qualitative improvements on an on-going basis even as staff positions turnover to ensure that the quality of environment desired continues to be the vision and goal regardless of changes in the program, policies and/or staff positions.

Customer Satisfaction is also measured through satisfaction surveys. Upon a resident’s completion of the program, referral agencies and family members complete satisfaction surveys. Additionally, a standard questionnaire is utilized for follow-up with the resident, parent/guardian and/or placing agency representative. Information is gathered about residents including: demographic data, behavior exhibited, follow-up services received, compliance with medication prescribed (if applicable), school attendance and behavior, living arrangements, legal problems, relationships with peers and family. A written report summarizing findings related to service quality and trends is submitted quarterly for surveys completed by the residents and former residents and annually for surveys completed by the referral agencies and family members. These summaries are presented to executive management and the governing Board of Trustees to be utilized during the annual program evaluation process.