Current Difficulties

Venture Academy’s Independent Living Program provides supportive residential placements and counseling services to male and female clients ages 18 to 25 (and up) who may be experiencing difficulties managing their lives at home, at school, at work, or in the community.
Typically, Venture Academy’s Independent Living Program serves a client population who may have a history of:

  • family difficulties
  • drug or alcohol abuse
  • problems with the legal system
  • negative peer relationships
  • clinically diagnosed disorders
  • employment difficulties
  • residency issues
  • other significant behavioural challenges

Clients accessing the program may be demonstrating behavioural challenges and experiencing emotional difficulties. These barriers would most likely be preventing the client from functioning normally in his or her everyday life causing disruptions in school, employment, family life, and social relationships.

Historical Concerns

Possible emotional difficulties, mental health issues, and clinically diagnosed disorders, may include: low self-esteem, depression, poor self-concept, Attention Deficit Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder etc.

Who Gets In

Venture Academy’s individualized approaches, intervention methods and service plans, enable us to accommodate an extensive client base including those with significant behavioural challenges, emotional concerns, mild mental challenges, head and brain injuries.

Venture Academy has a consulting psychologist, psychiatrist and behavioural health specialist on retainer, but clients who are in need of intensive psychiatric care are deemed not suitable or appropriate for a placement in Venture Academy’s Independent Living Program.

Parents’ Concern

Parents or clients themselves may simply be concerned or apprehensive about an impending move away from home. They may wish to access a support network in order to facilitate and ensure a smooth transition. Parents may also be concerned about their son or daughter’s functioning in their current residence. Venture Academy will customize our services to meet the potential client’s individual needs and parental preferences.