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-- Advocacy Program: Intensive one-on-one services that include mentoring, role modeling, and social skills building.

-- Norman Housing Services: This program provides services to DCFS clients who lack adequate housing.

Offers to help families and children manage mental health challenges, healthy choices, and social issues at home and in the community. Services are provided in the home on a weekly basis, sometimes more often if needed. This allows children and families to learn and apply skills in their natural setting. Areas addressed include communication, conflict resolution, social skills, and emotional coping.

Workshops for at-risk young adults. Provides life skills development opportunities in the following areas

- Communication and interpersonal skills.

• Decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Creative thinking and critical thinking.
• Self-awareness and self-control.
• Empathy.

Autism services to children and adults. Services include:

- Speech and Language Therapy.

- Adult Social Group.

- Day Vocational Training.

- Autism Resource Room (open to general public by appointment)

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) provides instruction to improve the day-to-day life of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or other developmental disabilities. ABA instruction, typically offered in a one-on-one setting to meet the needs of each learner, is focused on teaching skills and decreasing behaviors that interfere with learning. Instruction focuses on an individual's learning or behavior needs, working on improving skills such as taking turns, waiting in line, interactive play with peers, joining play, and initiating and maintaining conversations.

Social Skills Camp is a 6 week summer camp designed for adolescents who are on the Autism spectrum. The camp provides educational and therapy services. Instruction and training will take place as a group and one-on-one.

Services include:

- Speech and Language Therapy.

- Inclusive Child Care (0-6 years old).

- Inclusive Child Care (6-18 years old).

- Social Skills Camp.

- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).

- Social Skills Supports.

- Autism Resource Room: Open to general public by appointment.

Provides supportive services, guidance, and situational intervention to allow developmentally disabled individuals to maintain or enhance their ability to live in the Rockford community and surrounding area.  Services include self-care, social skills, educational and vocational skills with physical and developmental disabilities.

Work with each individual to develop and initiate a support plan to meet their needs and personal goals.

Assists individuals in securing services and opportunities not provided by Milestone.

Offers various services to diagnose and treat autism for individuals of all ages.

Services include:

-- Autism assessment.

-- Autism therapy.

-- Social skills groups.

-- Autism Resource Directory with referrals for services.

Social skills group led by speech language pathologist. Social Smarts Group meets weekly for six weeks and focuses on improved social skills in a small group setting with similarly aged peers; children and teenagers. An experienced speech pathologists leads the group.

Provides:

- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy.

- Social skills groups.

- Individual and family therapy.

- Parent and community trainings.

- Autism resources.

Offers to help families and children manage mental health challenges, healthy choices, and social issues at home and in the community. Services are provided in the home on a weekly basis, sometimes more often if needed. This allows children and families to learn and apply skills in their natural setting. Areas addressed include communication, conflict resolution, social skills, and emotional coping.

Provides mental and behavioral health services for children and adolescents. Services for children include, psychiatric evaluations, medication management, anger management and social skills training, abuse counseling, individual and family therapy services such as PLAY therapy, cognitive behavior therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.