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Building Brighter Futures
for Children & Youth
since 1863
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The Sanctuary® Model
The purpose of Bethany Home is to provide residential services for children and youth who are unable to live with their own or a substitute family. Typically, these young people require more structure, more elaborate programming, and more highly trained staff than is possible in a smaller group setting. Bethany Home’s programming is designed to provide a safe environment to maximize the therapeutic components afforded to the youth. Bethany Home follows the Sanctuary® Model of Care.
The Sanctuary Model of Care represents a trauma-informed whole system approach designed to facilitate the development of structures, processes, and behaviors on the part of the staff, youth, and the community as a whole that can counteract the biological, affective, cognitive, social, and existential wounds suffered by the youth in care.
One of the major components of the Sanctuary Model of Care is a shared language. There are four elements that guide the way we work and the way the youth heal and make progress in their lives. Those elements comprise The SELF Model.
- Safety – Safety includes physical, social, emotional and moral domains. Progress cannot be made without safety.
- Emotions – Managing emotions is the step that helps us to know what we are feeling and handle our feelings in a way that does not hurt ourselves or others.
- Loss – Loss is the step that helps us acknowledge and grieve the painful things that have happened to us in a safe way and move to a healthy future.
- Future – Future is the step where we look at our choices in creating a better personal future and to make the better place.
Another component of Sanctuary is The Seven Commitments. These commitments are to:
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Non-violence
- Emotional intelligence
- Inquiry and social learning
- Shared governance
- Open communication
- Social responsibility and
- Growth and change
By committing to these seven areas, the Bethany Children’s Home community works to heal our trauma and become healthier individuals. Healthy people help others become healthy. In this way, our staff and youth heal together and move forward to a healthy future.
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