Restore

PACE restores families by improving the overall safety and emotional well being of children who have experienced trauma and crisis from out of home placement at their pace.



 
 
 

Our Mission

PACE is here to answer the call to provide care for children to minimize the trauma and disruption they have experienced as a result of being removed from their homes and families.

PACE for children provides a stress free, and caring environment which provides safety and care for children whose experiencing traumatic experiences in their lives. Staff understand the role of violence and the importance of children needing to feel safe, accommodate vulnerabilities, and prohibiting traumatization.



PACE services are designed to validate children’s positive behavior, and support their physical, emotional, and social development. The primary needs of the clients served include:

  • Daily supervision of the clients

  • Meals

  • Daily activities

  • Prioritize school registration

  • Laundry

  • Transportation to medical, dental, and therapeutic appointments

  • Clean bedding

  • Transitional services

  • Supervised phone calls

  • One on one staff goal setting

  • Hygiene supplies

  • Supervised visits

  • Behavioral supervision

 
 

Get Involved

"Partnerships Advancing Children’s Excellence play a pivotal role in the community and in the lives of children experiencing hardships in their lives as a result of out-of-home placement. Giving back to the community by volunteering will teach children the value of self-esteem, empathy, compassion, and gratitude. Get involved today.

— PACE STAFF

 

PACE welcomes men and women who are looking to make an active and tangible difference in children’s lives to volunteer with our company.

We welcome volunteers throughout the year. We welcome Social Work, Psychology, and Criminal Justice students to volunteer at our home.

At PACE we provide trauma-informed care for children experiencing out-of-home placement. We implement specific safeguards in our volunteer selection process to ensure the safety of the children and families we serve. With regard for this commitment, volunteers are identified, screened, and trained prior to being placed in a volunteer role.

Volunteer Opportunities

  • Administrative

  • Program

  • Maintenance and Grounds

  • Renovation

  • Event

  • Child Care

  • Life Skill Classes

  • Tutoring

  • General

  • Basic Needs

  • Donor/Non Volunteer

We conduct background and reference checks on all volunteers for the safety of the children and families we serve.

  • We provide training for all volunteers and determine the extent of training within the specific area where a volunteer will serve.

  • We follow-up with all volunteer to prepare, assign, and schedule.

  • We are thankful for all volunteers

 
 
 

Our Programs

PACE is a trauma informed emergency shelter that accepts children ages 3-15 years old who have been removed from their home or are in need of temporary or permanent placement due to crisis, abuse, neglect.

 

Case Management

PACE case managers are passionate about children and seek to make a difference in their lives. Our goal is to assist children and families that are in crisis with self-reliance, dignity, respect, and hope-in collaboration, compassion, excellence, integrity, and support; all at the pace of the child in our care.
 

Therapy Services

Children’s therapy is to strengthen inner happiness and their ability to access constructive motives to be happy, outgoing, loving, and self-regulated.

Trauma Informed Care

PACE ensures that the physical and emotional safety of all children in our care is priority. We take in account past trauma and work with care plans that includes coping and behavioral mechanisms. We provide safety where children feel free culturally, emotionally, and physically as well as being aware of what makes the child feel discomfort or uneasy.
 

Take Me In

Take Me In is the PACE crisis bed program. This is offered at a first come, first served basis. The program offers crisis bed for up to 30 days depending on the need of the child. In order to be considered for a crisis bed, the child must be admitted for three or more days. PACE staff and leadership team will make the final decision on crisis admissions.

 
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Get Involved

The children we serve will thrive at their PACE with your contributions.

 

Partner with us

Learn more about PACE partnerships by contacting us today.

Volunteer opportunities

Learn more about our volunteer opportunities at PACE

Make a Donation

Your financial contributions will help children thrive at their PACE towards their level of excellence.

 
 

Volunteer

Thank You for your interest in volunteering with us. Whether you are looking for individual or team volunteering, we have opportunities available. Please fill out the form below and staff will follow up for your next steps.

 
 

Our Programs

 
 

Hours of Operation

PACE is a home for boys and girls with professional staff providing 24-hour care in a home-like environment.

 

INTENDED use of service

PACE offers emergency shelter for children ages 3-15 years old who are experiencing out of home placement due to crisis, abuse, or trauma. Children are placed in shelter by county social workers for various reasons including:

·     Child’s health and welfare are in jeopardy 

·     Home or parent of the child cannot be located 

·     Child’s home is being investigated by a county 

·     Parent is unavailable to continue to care for the child for reasons of hospitalization, treatment, or incarceration 

·     Parent is unable to provide a home for the child and is looking for a permanent home setting

 

primary needs of pace children

PACE services are designed to validate children’s positive behavior, and support their physical, emotional, and social development. 

PACE services:

o   Daily supervision of the clients

o   Meals

o   Daily activities

o   Prioritize school registration

o   Laundry

o   Transportation to medical, dental, and therapeutic appointments

o   Clean bedding

o   Transitional services

o   Supervised phone calls

o   One on one staff goal setting

o   Hygiene supplies

o   Supervised visits

o   Behavioral intervention

 

PACE services also include

o  Residential Services

o  Therapeutic Treatment

o  Foster Care-according to the family focused treatment association-treatment or therapeutic foster care is a distinct, powerful, and unique model of care that provides children with a combination of the best elements of traditional foster care and residential treatment centers. 

o  PACE provides the required training and licensing for prospective therapeutic foster parents and individuals interested in providing a therapeutic environment for children who have experiences chronic trauma as a result of abuse, crisis, neglect and maltreatment. 

o  PACE Family Connect-Modeled after the family tapestry in children’s shelter-Ensures children’s safety, well-being and permanency

o  PACE Parents -providing parent education for families with children from infancy to age 5 and prenatal mothers. -systematic training for effective parenting and best practices

o  Trauma informed care training 

o  Culturally responsive program

o  Trust based relational intervention-emerging intervention model for a wide range of childhood behavioral problem (failed interventions include-medications, cognitive-behavioral therapies,) 

o  TBRI is a family-based intervention that is designed for children who have experienced relationship-based traumas such as institutionalization, multiple foster placements, maltreatments, and or neglect.  

 

Parent service

Parents of PACE clients can voluntarily participate in structured educational classes such 

 

o   Free Parent resources including education, health, dentistry, food services, 

o   Mental Health 

o   Parent Support Group

o   In Home visits with PACE staff to discuss best practices for child’s well being

 

Staffing

Ratio of staff to client care and services during business hours: 

The following ratio is required under the shelter standard 

  • One staff person to three clients, if the clients are less than six years old

  • One staff person to four clients, if the clients are six to eight years old

  • One staff person to four clients, if the client are nine to eleven years old

  • One staff person to eight clients, if the clients are twelve to eighteen years old

The following ratio is required during after-hours:

  • One staff person to seven clients, if the clients are less than nine years old

  • One staff person to twelve clients, if the clients are nine years old or older

Contact Us

(763) 205-4123
info@partnershipsadvancingchildrensexcellence.org