SLS Activities

The services offered encompass:

• Personal care assistance: Bosom encourages individuals to undertake activities of daily living or supports them as needed to maintain personal hygiene, grooming, appearance, showering, grooming, clothing selection, and household organization.
• Medication management and support: individuals are mainly encouraged, or supported as needed, in managing medications, including reminders, prescriptions, and refills coordination.
• Meal preparation and nutritional support: individuals are encouraged to do this on their own and assisted as needed to plan their meals, ensuring dietary needs, and kitchen management for optimal health.
• Transportation services: individuals are encouraged to find ways of reaching to whatever destinations they wish to go to such as to appointments, social outings, and community events, promoting social inclusion and independence.
• Social and recreational activities: Individuals are encouraged to take charge of social interaction and follow various recreational preferences for personal development.
• Health and wellness monitoring: Bosom encourages individuals to maintain health and safety and engage in personal monitoring, assessments, coordination with healthcare providers and others on a regular basis.
• Emotional support and companionship: individuals are encouraged to reach out to their circle of their supports when they require emotional support, companionship, and fostering positive relationships to combat feelings of isolation.
• Individualized service planning: individuals are encouraged to suggest and make known their needs and preferences for inclusion in the development of personalized care plans.
• Health and safety: individuals are encouraged to manage their safety and ensure a secure environment.
• Rights and dignity: Bosom upholds this, and encourage individuals to advocate for their rights, autonomy, navigate support systems and dignity in decision-making processes and interactions. This includes access to resources towards meeting their diverse needs.
• Social inclusion:  individuals are encouraged to be pro-active by getting out and interacting with the communities where they live. Bosom encourages individuals to go out and seek available resources in their communities. Where needed Bosom continuously reaches out and educates the circle of support as a way of facilitating social connections to reduce or eliminate isolation.
• Skill development: Individuals are encouraged to go out and seek available community resources through which they can build their capacities. This way they maximize opport unities for skills development like financial or independent living skills.

These activities are executed in adherence to the SLS philosophy (as highlighted in Title 17 section 56832) that prioritizes provision of opportunities to adults with developmental challenges to live in homes that they own or rent without limitation to level of disability. Bosom create a blossoming and empowering environment that encourages independence, inclusion, and holistic well-being for clients in line with the Supported Living Services philosophy.

Based on individual needs, as per IPP, Bosom SLS develops ISP for each individual with the help of the individual and circle-of-support.  Bosom ensures services impact the quality of life for each individual as desired. The plan reflects the needs, aspirations and desires of the individual and ideally provides on guidelines on how to successfully support the preferred lifestyles of each individual. To provide additional support to catalyze individual’s independence.

Bosom focuses on facilitating, enhancing and encouraging individuals’ choices through use of various support arrangements as needed.  Individual Service Plan (ISP) encourage self-direction and enabling each individual to thrive, to realize the highest level of control and responsibility.  Each individual has unique outcomes and therefore specific strategies are employed to realize them based on their ISP.

Bosom reviews programs bi-annually and timely reports filed to ensure that the quality of the program is continuously monitored and improved.