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