Smith Habilitaiton Services | Serving Pierce, Thurston, and Kitsap Counties in WA State

Adult Day Center

At Smith Habilitation, our Adult Day Center: Respite Services offers a welcoming environment for adults with disabilities, featuring engaging social activities, art, board games, a game room, and a movie room. Our daily activities promote social interactions, creative expression, and overall enjoyment, ensuring a fulfilling experience for participants. Discover our current list of activities and join us in fostering community engagement and personal growth.

Rate:

DDA Client rate: 25.08/hr

Private Pay rate: $30/hr

Schedule:

Monday: 9am-5pm

Tuesday: 9am-5pm

Wednesday: 9am-5pm

Thursday: 9am-5pm

Friday: 9am-5pm

Day Center Activities Provided. See Calendar for days and times

Drop-In Social and Recreations:

Quality Community Outing’s Day Room is a drop-in social room for participants to enjoy independent and interactive activities. Daily we offer Switch Nintendo gaming, coloring and creative arts and crafts, puzzles, card games, board games and more! Feel free to check out our online calendar or stop on by to join in on the fun. We would love to meet you! For more information or to participate, please contact Andrea Smith at 253-232-5573 or email asmith@smithhabilitationservices.com

Painting:

This is great place to express your creative side. This is a safe and supportive environment to express your creative side. You will have access to watercolors, acrylics, paint brushes, white paper, and canvas paper with no extra charge. No experience needed. Painting aprons to protect clothing will be provided. For more information, please email Andrea at asmith@smithhabilitationservices.com or call Andrea at 253-232-5573.

Journaling:

We use journaling and free writing as a form of self-expression, a way to process emotions, and build self-confidence. Pencils and paper are provided. Participants may share what they have written or keep it private. If a scribe is needed, a staff member would be happy to scribe your thoughts and ideas for you.

Balloon/ball toss:

Have fun tossing a baloon to one another. If it drops your out. This is a fun activity to meet friends and have fun.

Table-top bowling:

Have fun bowling and seeing the pins fall. This is a fun social activity to meet friends and have fun.

Coping, Calming, and Grounding:

Do you want to learn how to calm yourself when you are angry, upset, or anxious? We will focus on breathing exercises, grounding techniques, journaling, and other methods to help you calm yourself.

Creative art activity:

Come participate in making a fun craft. Our staff will guide you through making a fun craft that you can take home.

Create a collage using magazines:

Come explore our magazine or bring your own. Make a collage or something that inspires you.

Movie and popcorn: Come watch a movie and have some popcorn.

Bingo: Who’s going to get a bingo? Let’s have fun together with Bingo. We will play several rounds and different games. Prizes are to be won.

DND:

Storytelling and role-playing is the key to this game. This is a safe space to create space for self-exploration. Each player builds a character to navigate through adventures and missions. This is low pressure games with imagination, creativity, and fun. We focus on non-violent story telling for this game.

Music and songs:

This group listens to songs new and old and discusses them. We will talk about the artists that create the music and how we feel when we listen to them. Music is an easy way to help lighten the mood.

Connecting with others:

This group discusses ways to interact with people in our community and people at home. We will learn social skills and talk about how we can make better connections with people. Participates are encouraged to give tips with what works for them and a way to talk out situations that didn’t work.

Crosswords and related word games, done together for discussion:

Have fun completed crossword and word games togetether.

Book review and discussion:

We will read a book together and discuss the book.

Current events, reading the newspaper together:

We will read the newspaper together and discuss the paper together.

Card and board games- social hour

Keep a weather calendar:

Is it going to be raining or sunny. Let’s track the weather together and see if we can find patterns or predict the weather.

Card making:

Let’s make a card for a friend or a loved one. Card materials are available at no charge to use.

Life Skills

(Smith Habilitation Services is now accepting new customers)

Smith Habilitation Services provide one-on-one community-based and individualized support with the intent of helping the customer reach their set goals. The program focuses on teaching a range of life skills which enhance their ability to achieve maximum self-efficacy and empowerment.

Life Skills gives the individual the opportunity to make choices about their own lives. Often there are barriers that limits or restricts the person’s ability to make choices. Specialized Habilitation helps break those barriers that limits a person’s ability to decide what they want in their lives.

Supports provided to customers fall under the following five Life Skills categories:

Self-Empowerment - To take control of one's own life by setting goals and making positive choices to promote self-determination. Customers develop positive internal dialogue, build self-esteem, reflect on personal values, and be aware of their own strengths and weaknesses.
Safety-Awareness and Self-Advocacy- The ability to recognize hazards and make safe informed choices. Customers learn safety awareness skills. With safety awareness skills, the customer will be able to identify and report possible neglect, exploitation, and/or abuse. We focus on one's ability to self-advocate and learning to say no.
Interpersonal Effectiveness and Effective Social Communication- The development of social and emotional learning which leads to positive relationships and self-respect.
Coping Strategies Regarding Everyday Life Challenges- To develop problem solving skills and stress reduction strategies to address stressful situations.
Managing Daily Tasks and Acquiring Adaptive Skills- To develop necessary skills to thrive in the home and in the community. Skills may include money management and basic understanding, ordering food, and the general understanding of why we do tasks.

Smith Habilitation Services will create a plan of action which defines our customer's goals, states it in measurable terms, tracks progress, and includes a progress and service report.

Staff and Family Consultation

Staff and Family Services provides consultation with a family member or a direct service provider to help better serve the client.

Consultation support may include:

Helping the family or direct service provider properly document medication side effects, changes in health, and behaviors which need to be reported to a prescribing physician.
Augmentative communication systems. We will help the direct service provider or family member better assist the client with communication by the use of assistive technology and/or PECS.
How to identify resources for the client such as mental health.
Helping the family or direct service provider follow a nutritional plan developed by a nutritionist or dietitian.
Information on disabilities and educating the family member or direct service provider on the client’s disability.
Consultation regarding an existing plan of care.
Strategies on how to effectively interact with the client. This may include how to consistently use effective communication and de-escalation strategies.
Environmental consultation. Helping the family or direct service provider create sensory friendly areas, and environmental modifications to the home.

Stabilization

Provides Life Skills and Staff and Family services to clients who are on the verge of being institutionalized and being expelled from their home due to behaviors.

Community Engagement

We at Smith Habilitation Services are dedicated to helping you make meaningful connections in the community. We will make each outing something you are interested in and find activities that you will look forward to.

What a Community Engagement provider will do for you:

Meet one-on-one and talk about your PCSP and your goals engaging with the community.
Help you connect with community resources based on your needs and interests.
Help you create friendships and relationships with community members.
Help you attend the community events and go to activities in your budget.

This service is available to those enrolled on the HCBS waivers: Basic Plus, CORE, and Individual and Family Services.