Day Habilitation Services
The Adult Day Habilitation Program at Githens Center offers a warm, nurturing environment for adults with disabilities, ages 21 and over. Here, participants can enjoy a wide range of meaningful activities, learn new skills, and socialize with peers. Our specialized staff provides ongoing training in the areas of personal care and self-help skills, communication, mobility, social skills, cultural experiences, and job-related activities.
Our Adult Day Habilitation Program is open
Monday through Friday from 9:00am - 3:00pm
Things we may do in any typical week:
Horticulture
Individuals get to work on their green thumbs by watering all of our indoor plants weekly. In the spring, they put their minds together to pick which flowers, vegetables and herbs we will grow in our outdoor gardens.
Exercise
Twice a month, our pals from Spectrum Sports stop by to get our consumers up on their feet for some light exercise! When we aren’t working up a sweat with them, you can catch us moving to a Richard Simmons video!
Music Therapy
We love to move and shake around here! Twice a month, our good friend Mr. Jim comes by with all of his instruments and plays seasonal songs, teaching us the importance of warming up our voices and how to keep a beat…and even showing us how to sign songs using ASL.
Community Outings
We love getting out into the community! Our consumers sit down weekly to pick where they want to go the following week. Some of their favorite places to go are the grocery store, the mall, bowling, local libraries, volunteering at Rancocas Nature Center and going for walks around the community and local parks.
Cooking & Baking
One thing about our staff and individuals is that we love any excuse to get into the kitchen! Consumers get hands-on experience making a wide range of foods while learning how to create a shopping list, maintain a budget and learn the importance of food safety and nutritional information.
Movie Day
Around here, everyone knows that Friday means movies and popcorn! Consumers take turns weekly getting to pick which movie the group watches. They also get to enjoy popcorn or, if they made a treat that day, they get their choice!
Arts & Crafts
Consumers get to express their creativity through an abundance of crafts throughout the week. With a little help from staff, our consumers create beautiful pieces of work that are proudly displayed on our walls until it’s time to replace them with something new!
Holiday Parties
If there is a holiday, we are throwing a party—from Valentine’s Day, Prom, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas just to name a few! Consumers get to help with the party-planning process by creating beautiful centerpieces and decorations to cover the building. We spend the day eating, laughing, dancing, singing karaoke and taking plenty of photos at our photobooth!