Plummer's Goals for Every Boy
Plummer Home's goal continues to center on the facilitation of reunification or, lacking that alternative, providing young men with more of the skills they require for independent living.
Actively Involved in the Community
To this end, Plummer Home is an active and involved member of the larger Salem community, with many formal and informal affiliations. Among the more important of these is its relationship with the Salem Public Schools, health agencies, the juvenile justice system and the Mayor’s office.
Plummer Home is a residential program, based on a group home model, for moderately troubled adolescent boys. The Home provides a safe, structured, therapeutic home where boys are encouraged and helped to identify and cope with past and present issues. The approach consists of straightforward sense in which staff members relate to the boys in all the situations that come up in day-to-day life. Plummer Home believes that working with the boys and their families and teaching them the skills to overcome harmful patterns. This will help them reach their potential.
Optimal Growth and Individual Development
Plummer Home strives to provide each boy optimal growth and individual development. The short-term goals are to integrate the boy into the program by giving him a sense of safety and security, helping him to begin the process of identifying and improving problematic behavior patterns. Most importantly, the Home works to instill in each boy a sense of hope and confidence to learn more adaptive behaviors and to develop greater self-esteem. Longer-term goals include, in addition to fostering maximum growth, helping each boy to attain the most effective relationship with his family in order to facilitate reunification with his family or to help him prepare for and manage more independent living alternatives when appropriate.
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Community Support for Plummer
Representative John Keenan speaking at The Plummer Home 150th anniversery
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