373A Old Wooler Rd.
Codrington, ON
K0K 1R0
Phone: (613) 475-3896
Fax: (613) 475-6098
MINISTRY REGION: Central East
Quest Children's Services is a residential program for youth in southern Ontario and is located approximately 90min. east of Toronto. The primary residence is situated on 42 acres of forest and fields with a trout creek at the back of the property. The residence has over 6000 square feet of living space, with 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, providing ample recreation space both inside and outside the home. The children have full use of the assorted games tables, computers, video games & satellite T.V. Further, the facility offers an aquatic education program in its swimming pool and a woodworking program in a well-equipped workshop on site.
Quest is a parent model residence designed for long-term placement and is staffed full-time with a child & youth worker and an educational support worker. Each full time support staff provides 40hours of program support per week. The educational support worker is in place to provide each resident with support in their education, both academically & behaviouraly. This support is accomplished through regular communication with the school & the resident’s individual teachers, via the daily agenda, as well as periodic meetings with the individual teachers, vice-principals & the guidance department. To date this program has been very successful for the residents in this program providing more successes in their individual academic classes, resulting in an increased self-esteem, creating a more behaviouraly stable child. The educational support worker also doubles as the program recreational director during school breaks & holidays, providing the residents with a variety of recreational activities designed to further their integration into the community, allowing the residents to have the friends they are developing in the community to join them in these activities as well as on mini-vacations, which results in the resident’s being invited on similar activities with their friends families, again furthering the need for the child to feel a part of the community in which they live.
The Life Skills/Child & Youth Worker is responsible for developing some of the many skills required to get started in the world in which we live, including but not limited to daily household chores & responsibilities, the creation & maintenance of a Life Book, containing photographs, report cards, sports & academic awards to name a few. This worker is also responsible for helping the residents obtain a Social Insurance Number, create a resume, fill out employment applications, search out & obtain employment as well as the necessary skills to present to an employer a positive image of oneself, through proper speech & dress. The Life Skills worker is also responsible for teaching the residents skills such as laundry & cooking. Every couple of months each resident is responsible for a major meal, which they have to design, create a shopping list, go to the grocery store to purchase the necessary items, prepare & cook the meal as well as the clean-up after the meal. Again the residents are encouraged to invite a significant person to join the house for this meal. The area of Life Skills is a wide and varied one, though the above skills are some of the most basic & necessary, the program is not limited to these.
The service objectives emphasize physical and mental well-being as the avenue to replacing maladaptive behaviour with social competence.
The focus of the program at Q.C.S. is on Formal Education & Life Skills. The program utilizes the local schools, with the aid of an Educational Support Worker, and a wide variety of programs & activities to promote social growth and the development of supportive interpersonal relationships.
In view of the importance of these adolescent years, additional program enhancement includes:
• Intensive efforts to integrate youth into community.
• Life skills group program.
• Access to Section 19 classrooms in Northumberland Board.
• Auxiliary staff to provide:
- support in school,
- community based recreation leader,
- crisis intervention,
- support for group therapy.
• Individual psychotherapy provided by a registered psychologist.
• Group psychotherapy provided by a registered psychologist.
• Psychological assessments.
• Psychological consultation.
[Psychological services are provided through Beckett Kitcher & Associates of Belleville.]
Primary Contact:
Mr. Gary Moyer
PHONE: (613) 475-3896
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Quest Children's Services
Codrington
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30 days
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60 days
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90 days
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Last Updated: 9/1/2011 12:31:51 PM
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= Wheelchair Accessible
= Services for Medically Fragile
