Movement and social recreation

Active Community Skills

Movement that makes everyday life easier

A program that builds the skills a participant uses to take part in community life.

Funded through the Self-Determination Program, service code 331.

Inside a session

Sessions use the same building blocks as fitness, yoga, dance, and gymnastics classes. They are calm, structured, and paced to the participant.

A settled warm-up, floor-based and whole-body movement that builds stability and body awareness
Balance work, controlled starting and stopping, and changes of speed and direction
Rhythm and coordination work using both sides of the body, including movements that cross the body's midline
Movement sequences the participant remembers, repeats, and varies, with choices built in
A calm finish, and a short review of what the participant will practice before the next session

One instructor observing attentively nearby as one young boy balances on a bosu ball in a small private gymnastics studio during a one-on-one session

One instructor working one-on-one with one participant on coordination and rhythm in a gymnastics gym

What it builds

Safety awareness

Balance on uneven ground, stopping and changing direction on cue, judging distance and space, moving around obstacles.

Emotional regulation

Practice staying with a demanding activity and coming back steady afterward.

Social communication

Following directions, taking turns, asking for a break, choosing what comes next.

Community integration

The movement skills that recreation classes, outings, and group activities ask for.

Program details

Duration:: twelve weeks
Frequency:: two sessions a week, 55 minutes each
Sessions:: 24 in total
Format:: one-to-one, participant-paced
Setting:: Adrian's Place, 1806 Lincoln Boulevard, Santa Monica, California 90404.
Service code:: 331, Community Integration Supports
Planning:: The program begins with a planning session. The participant, the family, and the facilitator use the participant's person-centered plan and IPP to agree on what matters most and which goals the twelve weeks will work toward.
Progress:: skills are recorded at the start of the program, midway and at the end, with a written summary provided at each checkpoint

For facilitators and coordinators

Code 331, Community Integration Supports, funds services that help a participant acquire, improve, or maintain the skills needed to take part in community life alongside people without disabilities, in integrated community settings. It covers socialization, communication, and recreation, and it is delivered outside the participant's home.

Active Community Skills is built as a recreation-based service within that definition. Sessions build the movement, communication, and self-regulation skills a participant uses in recreation classes, outings, and group activities. All sessions take place at Adrian's Place in Santa Monica, never in the participant's home.

A program information sheet and a facilitator toolkit are available on request. Email admin@activecommunityskills.com.

Kids and adults of varying ages moving and walking together outdoors in a public park

Request a consultation

Prefer to call? 310-473-3097, press ext. #3.

There is no cost for the consultation.