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Work Experience Program - New Brighter
Horizon Facility
The clients from the Perseus House Work Experience
Program have been spending that past months improving the
new Brighter Horizon facility. They have been constructing
new bunk beds and painting all the rooms. Mr. Henry Kopnitsky,
Worksite Experience Site Supervisor, leads the Work Experience
Program residents in developing teamwork and a sense of pride
from hard work and perseverance. The residents have learned
carpentry skills such as cutting, sanding and painting.
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clients have been cutting, sanding boards for the new
bunk that will go in the new Brighter Horizon facility.
The clients worked in the Work Experience Program and
learned all kinds of carpentry skills. They also stained
all the wood and put a coat of polyurethane on. Mr.
Henry Kopnitsky led the clients in developing teamwork
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The City of Erie Elderly Snow Shoveling Project
The Perseus House clients
have been shoveling snow for the elderly and disabled
this winter. This program assists City of Erie residents
who are unable to shovel their sidewalks due to
individual circumstances to do it themselves. The
project, started by the CICTP staff and clients,
has had an overwhelming community response and success
that all Perseus House facility clients are now
taking part in the snow shoveling project.
Perseus House's Collaborative
Intensive Community Treatment Program (CICTP) is
a broad-based, collaborative community response
to address the escalating costs of adolescent residential
placement. Youth at risk of being placed in an alternative
living arrangement are referred to the program through
the Erie County Juvenile Probation Department or
the Erie County Office of Children and Youth. The
program is designed to provide a continuum of services
to clients seven days per week. CICTP offers an
alternative to residential placement; the clients
remain in their own home and attend the school in
their district, yet still receive necessary treatment.
The average daily cost of CICTP is one-third that
of most residential placements.
Perseus House, Inc. provides a variety of educational
programs and resources for school-aged youth, both
in the school setting and in the Erie community.
School and community-based programs include: Alternative
Education Program (AEP); Delinquency Prevention
Program (DPP); Student Assistance Program (SAP);
Home Tutoring Program; residential treatment alternatives
(CICTP); Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies
(PATHS); and vocational development.
For more information about the Perseus House snow
shoveling program for senior citizens, please call
John Steiner at 814/459-6990 EXT. 145 or 882-7725.
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