CareFocus

CareFocus provides employee opportunities and training that help our staff become the best providers in the nation. Once a part of our team, employees are encouraged to act with dignity and respect, offering teaching and support to service recipients while understanding the boundaries of the employee/service recipient relationship. Under our care, service recipients are also taught their rights and responsibilities as members of society. Our employees are responsible for providing nutritious meals to our service recipients, as well as ensuring their overall safety and welfare. Employees are also responsible for providing transportation to and from all clinical appointments and are encouraged to remain with the service recipient at all times.

As part of our devotion to placing quality staff, the following areas are factors in the employment process:

Training

Training is often specific to each staff member, depending on which service recipients are assigned. Home support staff will receive regular in-service training on topics relevant to working with adults with developmental disabilities and observing and reporting changes.  Employees are only authorized to provide the specific services for which they are skilled and have received adequate training. 

Several service recipient trainings are provided to the CareFocus staff.  These trainings are provided on an as-needed basis.  Some topics cover:

• Autism and other pervasive developmental disorders
• Introduction to dual diagnosis
• Substance abuse and fetal alcohol syndrome
• Staff stress and coping strategies
• Value-based care giving
• Introduction to therapeutic behavior issues of service delivery
• Depressive disorders
• Bipolar and other mood disorders
• Anxiety and related disorders
• Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
• Personality disorders
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Mental retardation: causes, effects, responses
• Seizure disorder: causes, effects, responses
• Aggression and self injury among people who have mental retardation