TBGHealth provides Structured Day Habilitation, in Montgomery and Centre Counties, to enhance our Residential Habilitation program. Programming reflects the unique needs and abilities of the participants and is adaptable and changeable based on the participants’ needs. Structured Day Habilitation operates Monday - Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, at the designated site in the county, and also on Saturdays within the home and community setting to better meet the needs of our participants. All participants receive a membership to the local YMCA as a way to promote health, fitness, socialization, and community participation.

Structured Day Program Services include, but are not limited to:

• Assistance with acquisition, retention, or improvement in self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills
• Assistance in acquiring more independent functioning, and improved cognition, communication, and life skills
• The activities and environment are designed to help with the acquisition of skills, appropriate behavior, and personal choice
• Providing support for mood and behavioral stability
• Supervision, training, and support in any or all of the following, in keeping with an individual’s rehabilitation plan:
  • Social skills training
  • Sensory/motor development
  • Reduction/elimination of maladaptive behaviors
  • Task attention
  • Task completion
  • Problem-solving
  • Safety
  • Communication skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Money management skills
  • Cooking skills
  • Leisure and recreation skills
  • Pre-vocational skills
  • Travel training
  • Compensatory strategies/use of cognitive prosthetics
  • Computer skills
  • Other skills not listed, but required or requested by the individual

All services are provided directly to the consumer by TBGHealth staff. All group leaders have at least five years’ experience and/or a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.