Dawn to Dusk Day Program
Dawn to Dusk Wellbeing Center offers an Engaging, Enriching, Educational and Energetic (our 4 Es) Day Habilitation Program with 6 hours of programming.
You can find our Day Habilitation Program schedule for April 2024 here.
Previous Month’s Schedule:
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021 Virtual
- August 2021 In-person
- July 2021 Virtual
- July 2021 In-person.
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
Program Philosophy
Our entire program of services is built on 4 core principles of CARE (Compassion, Action, Respect, Empowerment). We provide a comprehensive set of professionally designed and developed services to enable our clients to take more control of their daily activities, and progress towards becoming more active members of their communities. We offer a compassionate, caring and secure environment to ensure their physical, emotional and mental wellbeing during their time with us. Our entire staff has been trained on these core principles and embody them when interacting with program participants and with each other.
Strategies and Skills
Following a person-centered approach, and in keeping with the goals and outcomes outlined in the Individual Service Plan (ISP), we identify the main strategies that are the primary focus and goals for the individual, and develop these through the different activities we offer.
The primary six strategies we focus on include:
- Social and Communication Skills:
- This includes but is not limited to modeling and reinforcing behaviors such as: greeting each other, participating in conversation and activities, taking turns in a group activity, asking questions or asking/gesturing for assistance, sharing an opinion or preference, complimenting or applauding a peer during an activity and so on.
- Physical Health and Safety:
- This includes but is not limited to exercise programs such as yoga, tai chi, zumba, chair exercises, and dance. In addition, we are also certified to offer the Health Matters Program, a 12 week curriculum that includes 36 interactive online health education lessons and physical activity videos, that covers a wide variety of topics on healthy habits, personal hygiene, and safety.
- Mental Wellness:
- This includes but is not limited to activities that focus on visual imagery, meditation, breathing, and mindfulness exercises.
- Decision-making and Autonomy:
- This includes but is not limited to activities and conversations around choice, evaluating options, identifying steps to complete a task, selecting activities from available options, making shopping lists, and so on.
- Self-care skills:
- This includes but is not limited to activities and conversations around how to do laundry, how to load the dishwasher, how to organize one’s closet, how to create a grocery shopping list, how to tell time – time management skills, money management skills, prepping-cooking-assisting with simple meals.
- Creativity and Recreation:
- This includes but is not limited to theme-related arts and crafts, conversations and activities related to different art forms, crafts that focus on fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination, games and puzzles that foster individual skills development as well as group interaction, and understanding and following rules.
Contact us at info@dawntoduskwellbeing.com or at (732)-447-9429 from additional information.