One-to-one movement coaching that builds skills for community life.

How a session works

Sessions are built from five steps, combined and adjusted for each participant. They draw on fitness, gymnastics, parkour, yoga, and dance, and they are calm, structured, and paced to the participant.

1. 1.Settle: a calm warm-up with floor-based and whole-body movement that improves stability and body awareness.Improves: emotional regulation
2. 2.Balance and control: balance work, controlled starting and stopping, and changes of speed and direction.Improves: safety awareness
3. 3.Rhythm and coordination: movements using both sides of the body, including movements that cross the body's midline.Improves: community integration
4. 4.Remember and choose: movement sequences the participant remembers, repeats, and varies, with choices built in.Improves: social communication
5. 5.Finish and review: a calm finish and a short review of what the participant will practice before the next session.Improves: emotional regulation

How This Fits Code 331

Code 331, Community Integration Supports, funds services that build the skills a participant needs for community life. It is delivered outside the participant's home. The Active Community Skills program supports these Code 331 service areas:

• Visual, auditory, and tactile awareness and perception experiences: Balance and Control, Rhythm and Coordination.
• Art and recreation programs: one-to-one movement coaching using fitness, gymnastics, parkour, yoga, and dance techniques.
• Communication skills: following cues, waiting a turn, and making choices during Remember and Choose.
• Self-advocacy skills: participants make choices and practice asking for what they need.
• Community awareness: safety awareness in shared spaces with other people.

Each participant's goals are drawn from their person-centered plan and IPP.

Program details

Duration:

twelve weeks

Frequency:

two sessions a week, 55 minutes each

Sessions:

24 in total

Format:

one-to-one, participant-paced

Setting:

Adrian's Place, 1806 Lincoln Boulevard, Santa Monica, California 90404.

Service code:

331, Community Integration Supports

Planning:

The program begins with a planning session. The participant, the family, and the facilitator use the participant's person-centered plan and IPP to agree on what matters most and which goals the twelve weeks will work toward.

Progress:

skills are recorded at the start of the program, midway and at the end, with a written summary provided at each checkpoint

For Independent Facilitators and Families

• Program: 24 one-to-one movement sessions over 12 weeks, 55 minutes each, using fitness, gymnastics, parkour, yoga, and dance techniques.
• Service code: SDP 331, Community Integration Supports.
• Rate: provided on request.
• Serves: ages 3 through adult.
• Progress summaries are provided at the start, midpoint, and end of the program.

View the Facilitator Toolkit, or email admin@activecommunityskills.com with questions.