Group Services
Current Group Registration for Spring 2025 is Closed
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Check back in April 2025 for Summer Sessions
Social Skills
Elementary-aged Learners (7-10 years old)
The focus of this group is to build perspective-taking skills, turn-taking, and planning and prioritizing. This group will utilize board games, interactive play, and craft-based activities for learning key social skills and executive functioning skills.
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Children must be able to
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Sit for 15 consecutive minutes​
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Remain dry on a toileting schedule of at least 1 hour (no toileting assistance during group)
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Engage in NO aggressive behaviors directed at peers
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Follow small group instructions
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Answer simple Yes/No questions and preference questions accurately
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Group will meet on Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 PM
Insurance accepted for current and waitlist clients
PEERs
Adolescents (14-18 Years of Age)
This group is conducted by a PEERS Certified Instructor and uses the evidence-based Social Skills curriculum from UCLA. It is geared towards building and sustaining safe relationships with others.
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Teens must be:
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Motivated for social interactions
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Have adequate conversational abilities for asking and answering questions
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NO hospitalizations for aggressive or suicidal behaviors for the previous 6 months
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Sit for 60 consecutive minutes​​
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Parents of participants are required to attend a session Tuesdays from 5:30 to 7 PM to assist in coaching in everyday life
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Individuals participate on Thursdays from 5:30 to 7 PM
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For more information about the PEERS curriculum, check out their website.
$100/week for non-clients
Counseling-Based Social Skills
7-10 year-olds: Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 PM
11-14 year-olds: Thursdays 3:30-4:45 PM
14-18 year-olds: Tuesdays 5:30-7 PM
These groups are conducted using behavioral strategies and counseling strategies integrated into Tabletop Roleplaying Games. Each participant works together to solve problems alongside other participants by using perspective-taking, planning and prioritizing needed tasks, and tolerating
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Participants must:
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Cannot have a hospitalization in the previous 6 months for aggression or suicidal behaviors
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Have consistent independent toileting behaviors
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Follow along to a storyline in a movie, book, or video
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Restate what was previously observed within the past 1-minute
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Answer Yes/No questions and questions about preference accurately
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Engage in imaginative play
$50/week for non-clients