Discover Safehaven Public Ecovillage: Empowering From Within
Safehaven Public Ecovillage Paradigm
Staff should achieve three goals by turning a private ecovillage into a public one.
1. Enhance a sense of home and home stability.
2. Improve clients' healthy lifestyle, wellness, and future securities.
3. Evolve responsible adults.
4. Implement green and supportive services.
5. Engage officials to expand the PE Model.
Safehaven Public Ecovillage Paradigm
Organizational Philosophy & Restorative Justice
Behavioral Health Residential Facility or Group Home Values—Let every step you take upon the earth
Organizational Philosophy & Restorative Justice
A. Naess defined ecosophy as a philosophy of ecological harmony: ‘A philosophy as a kind of wisdom...that is openly normative...on the one hand and hypotheses concerning the state of affairs in our universe on the other. He urges others to develop their own model, which we developed an inter-generational on at SHPEV.
Restorative Justice is a mediation approach involving primary stakeholders to compassionately address infractions, violations, and conflicts in the organization while closing the pipelines to relapse and negative interventions with law enforcement, which is based on Native American’s Principles and Philosophy. Zehr writes, “Restorative justice is based upon an old, commonsense understanding of wrongdoing… [disrespect] is a violation of people and of interpersonal relationship; violation creates obligations; the central obligation is to put right the wrong.” He goes on to write, “… we are all interconnected… this is embedded in the concept of shalom, the vision of living in a sense of ‘all-rightness’ with each other, with the [C]reator, and with the environment” (2002, p. 19).
Principles and Ethics
Behavioral Health Residential Facility or Group Home Values—Let every step you take upon the earth
Organizational Philosophy & Restorative Justice
1. Reverence: To recognize the universal power that sustains all life.
2. Cleanliness: To maintain clean bodies, thoughts, and homes.
3. Healthy: To follow a nutritional and sustainable diet.
4. Self-sufficiency: To be industrious.
5. Productive: To actively help the community to be valued.
6. Respectful: To refrain harsh complaints for the benefit of others.
7. Compassion: To allow kindness to be one’s north star—think before one speaks.
8. Wisdom: To practice discretion in all situations.
9. Solutions: To honor system and order in all undertaking.
10. Observance: To follow ancient and contemporary best-practices.
11. Responsibility: To exercise discipline in all interactions—strong impulse control.
12. Harmony: To be obedient to one’s sacred pathway.
Behavioral Health Residential Facility or Group Home Values—Let every step you take upon the earth
Behavioral Health Residential Facility or Group Home Values—Let every step you take upon the earth
Behavioral Health Residential Facility or Group Home Values—Let every step you take upon the earth
The following five values will further guide our services, which are from Dr. Kendall's graduate school studies, include
1. Strive to have a sense of a beloved community—no individual should be treated as a means merely but as some of the unconditional worth (Professor Corrington, 1995, p. 59, from Kendall's 2009 Capstone Project, p. 12).
2. Nature is the Creator's coat (J. Clegg Wright, 1902, p. 58, from Kendall's 2009 Capstone Project, p. 13)—keep her clean and well cared for.
3. All rules and norms must be ethical; that is, "must adhere to the sympathetic and empathetic flows of life" (Kendall, 2009, p. 52).
4. Treat all people as equal members of the moral universe, Staub wrote, the "normal inhibition against harming… people decline, partly by excluding people from the moral universe" (1989, p. 33 in Kendall's Capstone Project, p. 39).
5. The staff must advocate for and support of all group home members (Kendall, 2014, p. 103), the study's top-ranking recommendation.
Humacy
Grit as one character example
Behavioral Health Residential Facility or Group Home Values—Let every step you take upon the earth
The diagram below depicts this triangulated relationship between Humacy and the programs' core strategies for changing our clients' and stakeholders' hearts and minds while standing on SHPEV's four core strategies:
1. Sustainability: The norms that promote personal, social, and environment well-being.
2. Spirituality: Clients learn to ensure that cited virtues overcome vices.
3. Stakeholders’ Involvement: Clients’ achievements are validated by themselves, staff, and their community.
4. Ultimate Concern: Using therapy as a pathway to embrace one’s Ultimate Concern can be undertaken to strengthen the mind’s core habits, thereby enhancing one’s character.
Humacy core strategies
Grit as one character example
Grit as one character example
The diagram below depicts this triangulated relationship between Humacy and the programs' core strategies for changing our clients' and stakeholders' hearts and minds while standing on SHPEV's four core strategies:
1. Focus on best practice interventions
2. Incorporate cultural values in the therapeutic process.
3. Use proven and acceptable clinical processes and services that promotes well-being and healing.
4.Include character development at all levels of operation and for all personnel, including staff.
Grit as one character example
Grit as one character example
Grit as one character example
Grit, as a character trait, is described as a unitary construct comprised of two elements: perseverance of effort (PE, or ongoing hard work) and consistency of interest (CI, referred to as "passion"). PE and CI together equate to success or achievement, according to the prime researcher, Professor Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania (2016). This description is one key example of how character will be enhanced under the Humacy model at SHPEV. The other six core habits self-control, zest, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism, and curiosity, (Tough, 2012, p. 76).
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Public Ecovillage a New Paradigm
By turning a private ecovillage model into a public ecovillage (PE) program, management may be able to achieve the following five goals:
- To increase home stability and an enhanced sense of home.
- To prepare clients for a healthy lifestyle of wellness and future securities.
- To help evolve responsible adults by wrapping accountability and various models around SHPEV’s virtues, services, and norms.
- To implement green and supportive services—benefiting the community.
- To engage local, county, and state legislative bodies to adopt the PE model.
Volunteer Today
We are always looking for passionate and dedicated volunteers to help us carry out our mission. Whether you have a few hours to spare or want to make a long-term commitment, there are many ways to get involved and make a difference. Contact us today to learn more about volunteering with Safehaven Public Ecovillage.
The Light Toward Esbriety!
Esbriety is the process by which the Board invites a spiritual approach as one of several methods to assist our group home clients to reach and maintain sobriety. See downloads section for more details.
Safehaven Public Ecovillage: An Empowerment Endeavor
Upgrading Group Homes
Group Homes must adhere to the State's license requirements. However, non-profit organizations also want to enrich and enhance client or participant services. The upgrading of a group home is to enhance the group home model. Dr. Kendall envisions that sobriety living homes will reflect many new features, of which some have been introduced thus far. In addition, there are more unique attributes, which Humacy is one of them.
Lend Your Support
There are many ways to support Safehaven Public Ecovillage's mission. You can make a donation, become a member, or volunteer your time. Every contribution makes a difference!
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Socially Flawed diamond
THE SOCIALLY FLAWED DIAMOND
The diagram represents the face of the under-developed culture at SHPEV as seen in the behaviors and actions of clients and stakeholders by the staff. The SFD has two main facets, the upper and lower. Observable experiences and behaviors represent the upper, while the internal dynamics must be inferred, represent the lower. Dr. Kendall further divides the upper aspect into two oppositional statuses: dominant and victim. The Harmful or Negative Leader, their Lieutenant, and often the Con Artist represent those who control the negative peer group dynamics and the clients overt or hidden relationships. This aspect is the dominant status in the program. The victims are those in the lower-crowd status of the upper structure (Goffer, Dyad, and Scapegoat). They are the upper targets for those interacting in the programs or social milieu where substance abuse among them is expected.
SHPEV staff serves clients with many challenges rooted in their history and social lives. Management must highlight, at least some of their root causes to enable the clients to resolve these challenges effectively while being motivated or committed to remaining in the program and receiving medical and therapeutic services at their assigned treatment centers. The Executive Director firmly believes that the approach involving interdisciplinary (synthesizing and integrating interventions) intersectionality (the blending of the unique experiences among diverse people suffering from oppression, discrimination, and abuses) is most effective while working hand-in-hand with staff and professionals at the treatment centers.