Adult Family Home State Civil Penalty Reinvestment Program Completed Projects

Emerald Cottage

5/1/2023-7/31/2023

Horticulture Therapy Program

This project is designed to create a horticulture therapy activity in this adult family home, with the goal of improving mental health, cognition, and overall wellbeing.

Community Homes

11/1/2022-10/31/2023

Resident Services and Activities

This is an activity program designed to identify areas of resident need and build skills in those areas. The goal is to increase resident independence, improve quality of life, and develop community integration for the residents in these adult family homes.

Stable Minds

10/1/2022-4/30/2024

Stable Minds

Through this project, Stable Minds will provide an animal therapy program to adult family homes in Whitman and Asotin counties. The goal is to improve the mental and physical health of the residents in those homes.

Healing Garden AFH, Grace Garden AFH, and Hope Garden AFH

10/1/2021-4/1/2023

Project Happy Mind, Happy Life

This project funds tablets for each of the adult family homes. The home will use these tablets for telehealth appointments, Skype visits, playing video games, and other activities.

$10,951.98

Ashley House

9/15/2021 – 8/31/2022

Young Adult Home Outdoor Access Improvements

This project funds the home to build garden boxes and paths through the garden, allowing the home to create a garden project for the residents.

Community Homes

11/1/2021 to 10/31/2022

Resident Services and Activities

This organization supports seven adult family homes. This project allows the organization to hire an activity program coordinator who will lead activities in and between the seven adult family homes.

Langland House

10/15/2020 – 4/15/2022

Thrive Wellness Program

This program allows these two adult family homes to participate in animal therapy and music therapy for their residents during a time of restricted visitation.

Peace of Mind

12/1/2021-3/31/2022

Quality Care Improvement

This grant funds a music therapy program in three adult family homes.

$16,320

Completed

Tony Vaudeville Talent

11/1/2020 – 12/31/2021

Lift Every Voice

Through this project, Tony Vaudeville talent provides music therapy sessions to 35 adult family homes across the state, including providing equipment for participation and instruments. The goal is to create meaningful connection and provide health benefits like reduced stress, anxiety, and depression and improved attention, concentration, and memory.

Amazing Days AFH

10/1/2020 – 10/31/2021

Music and Memory

This program will allow the adult family home to implement a music and memory program, including purchasing the training program and necessary equipment.

Cardinals Cottage AFH

10/15/2020 – 9/30/2021

Raised Garden Bed Project

This project helped the home build garden beds that allow residents to grow vegetables and flowers, providing them with a therapeutic outdoor activity.

$1,678.00

Completed

Beachwood Manor

12/1/2021 – 8/31/2021

Music and Memory

This program will allow the adult family home to implement a music and memory program, including purchasing the training program and necessary equipment.

Multi-Service Center

10/1/2020 – 6/30/2021

Stay Connected

Through this project, the Multi-Service Center is purchasing over a thousand tablets and distributing them to licensed adult family homes across the state. These tablets will be used to help residents conduct virtual visitation with loved ones while visitation is restricted through the COVID-19 pandemic

Community Homes

9/15/2020 – 6/30/2021

Resident Activity Program Response to COVID-19

This organization supports seven adult family homes. This project allowed the organization to purchase two tablets per home in order to administer a remote activity program that would connect the homes virtually, replacing their normal in-person activity program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Joy AFH

9/15/2020 – 5/31/2021

Connecting with Families During COVID-19

This program allowed the provider to purchase a tablet with accessories to assist residents with virtual visitation, as well as providing an additional source of activities and entertainment.

Beachwood Manor

10/1/2020 – 3/31/2021

Dementia Aware Engagement Program

This project allows the home to provide specialized dementia training to their staff. This home primarily serves residents with dementia, and this training helps them provide care that is more tailored to their needs.

Comagine Health

5/15/2020 –1/31/2021

Infection prevention education and consultation for adult family homes

Through this project, Comagine worked with RCS and HCS to develop infection prevention trainings and materials and provided them for free for adult family homes. This training consisted of biweekly all-state trainings, biweekly regional presentations, and biweekly office hours sessions. The statewide trainings were recorded and archived on Comagine’s website and were available for continuing education credit. The in-person sessions ran from September through December, and the trainings were available on the website until January. Comagine also offered infection prevention consultation services by infection prevention specialists, where providers could contact the specialists directly with their questions.

Emmanuel House

9/15/2020 – 12/15/2020

Improve quality of care by assisting cognitive intervention and communication tool

This project allowed the home to purchase a tablet. This home primarily serves residents with dementia, and the tablet will allow the home to provide cognitive training and memory apps to help the residents cope with that diagnosis. The tablet will also facilitate virtual visits during the COVID-19 pandemic when in-person visitation is not permitted.

Long-Term Care Foundation

4/22/2020 – 6/30/2020

Purchase of PPE

The Long-Term Care Foundation purchased 50,000 surgical masks and worked in coordination with the Adult Family Home Council to distribute the masks to 500 licensed adult family homes.

$50,000

Completed