Community-Based Adult Day Program

The program is designed to help adults with intellectual disabilities achieve their goals of independence and self-sufficiency by providing a safe environment that promotes socialization, advocacy, vocational training, and community involvement. In all activity areas, the focus is on teaching, improving, or practicing those skills that enable an individual to interact with others and to perform tasks that have practical utility and meaning to them.

The Program will provide different components in providing training to our participants in the areas of:

  • Behavior Management

  • Community Integration (Learning to Use Community Resources, i.e., banks, restaurants, shopping, libraries, movies, etc.

  • Vocational and Pre-vocational n (i.e., office or janitorial work training)

  • Leisure/Recreational

  • Mobility training (learning to take the bus: BART, etc.), Safety awareness, learning community signs (i.e., traffic signs).

  • Communication (Speech and Language)

  • Learning activities of daily living (dressing, choice of clothes, color matching, etc.)

  • Toileting Skills

  • Health and Spots (leaning proper diet and exercise)

To be an eligible participant for the Trinity Hope Program:

  1. Must be 18 years of age or older.

  2. Must be referred by their Regional Center as appropriate for the program.

  3. Must be free from medical conditions precluding daily community activities.

  4. Must not be eligible for the same or similar services from a generic agency that is funded to provide the services to the public.

  5. Must have a Physical Examination that includes a TB Test that is no more than a year old, prior to admission and a record of completed immunizations if possible.

  6. Participant must include objectives, which can be met by the program.

  7. Needs must be able to be met within the staffing ratio approved for the program.

  8. May have behavioral challenges that are:

    • Frequent but not disruptive to a point wherein it will prevent his/her and his/her peers' participation in any activity being offered at the program.

    • Aggravating but can be redirected and will not keep endangering him/herself nor other participants' safety. To name a few:

      • aggression towards others

      • self-injurious behaviors of hitting, scratching, biting self

      • tantrumming (screaming, yelling, throwing objects, stomping feet, etc.) - smearing feces

      • bolting/running or wandering away

      • property destruction

      • stealing food or others' properties, etc.