Cottage Seven provides intense, individual treatment within our residential program and helps children transition to home or to foster families through our day program.
Our objective is to generalize and maintain gains made in the residential program for children who remain and for the children who stay during the day and go home at night.
As the child’s behaviour improves and the parents feel more successful in managing their child’s behaviour, time at home is gradually increased.
In home support and parent training are provided to all families during the transition which includes gradually increasing community inclusion, and recruiting long term community wrap around supports.
Cottage Seven Residential and Day Program is an integrated, multi-component psycho-educational treatment program for children and adolescents with developmental delay and severe behaviour and/or mental health problems.
The Cottage Seven program is based upon principles of learning theory and utilizes evidence based methods.
Children are taught to listen, appropriately communicate their needs and wants, care for themselves, and learn skills that will improve their relations with others.
The Cottage Seven residential program operates seven days a week year round.
Daily routines approximate that of an average child. On a typical day children care for their rooms and possessions, attend school, do their homework, play, watch TV, assist with domestic chores, go for walks etc.
Teaching and counselling are provided in the context of these activities with every interaction serving as a clinical opportunity. Motivation for children to cooperate and accept guidance is established by providing privileges for positive behaviour.
As children become more responsible and show better self control, the number of privileges they can earn increases and the amount of supervision they receive decreases.
Scheduling of activities is done to ensure that children are constructively engaged throughout the day and are provided with opportunities to generalize what they have learned. Weekday evening’s children participate in community outings organized by the program or attend community activity clubs.
If children are unable to attend community schools they attend the Hull School located on the campus grounds. Children receive remedial instruction in core academic areas and are taught appropriate classroom behaviour.
The amount and type of involvement children have with their families is flexible and determined in collaboration with the parents and Treatment Team. As requested, families are provided with a full range of treatment and support services (in-home support, family therapy, child management training).
The progress of all the children in the Program is regularly monitored by psychiatric consultants at the Jack Fair Clinic.
Children participate in the Day Programme when they are starting to transition home or to foster families.
The Day Program provides full day center based services to children. Emphasis is placed on generalizing and maintaining treatment gains through intense family work in the home and gradual community inclusion. Where indicated, the Day Program involves wrap around services to assist the families, recruit long term community and kinship supports.
The Cottage Seven Residential and Day Program is closely aligned with several other educational and treatment programmes within Hull that offer services to children, adolescents and young adults with developmental disabilities. These programs take a long term developmental perspective and work together to form an integrated service continuum. All programs attempt to improve social and adaptive functioning, and increase independence and community inclusion.
Referrals:
- Referrals to the Cottage Seven Residential and Day Program are through Placement Services Office with Calgary and Area Children’s Services.
- The Residential Program will accept a limited of out-of-region and out-of-province referrals for appropriate cases on a fee-for-service basis.
DISCLAIMER: can only be accessed for youth with Children’s Services status and referrals are made by Case Workers.
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