About Our Organization

Mission

The mission of Big Hearts, Loving Arms is to provide long-term housing through group homes for special needs youth in our community. We will provide life skills assistance and training and other services to enhance the quality of life of these mentally challenged and developmentally delayed individuals. The focus of Big Hearts, Loving Arms is to effect a change in the body, mind, and spirit of these mentally deficient adults in the Clayton and Henry County, Georgia communities. This initiative will strive to impact these residents in helping them lead successful and personally fulfilling lives now and in the future.

Approach to Care

The primary purpose of the creation of Big Hearts, Loving Arms is an approach to care that is personalized with awareness of the many troubles and challenges facing special needs youth in our urban communities. Our goal is to assist these so challenged, by providing a personalized life skills training curriculum designed to assist and prepare them to function as independently as possible in an integrated society; thereby increasing their self-esteem and quantitatively improving their quality of life on a daily basis.

This life skills instruction will combine daily living, academic, occupational, and interpersonal skills training. Of primary focus will be training in self-care services such as eating, bathing, laundry, cooking, cleaning, shopping, and other daily living skills. When appropriate, we will provide additional life skills training in decision making, problem-solving, interpersonal communication enhancements, self-awareness, assertiveness, and resilience in coping with emotions.

This training, which will be provided in a residential living environment, represents some of the most important interventions needed today for youths with intellectual and /or physical limitations.