Residential Care Homes
High Standards of Care and Connection
At Bravelight Youth Services, we are committed to providing an environment where youth feel safe, supported, and genuinely connected. Our group care residences operate with a minimum staffing ratio of one caregiver for every two youth. This ensures that each young person receives consistent attention, relationship-based support, and a stable caregiving presence. To meet the evolving needs of our youth, we increase staffing and introduce additional supports as required.
Our team is trained in trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches, which shape every aspect of our caregiving practice. Trauma-informed care means recognizing the impact of past experiences and responding in ways that promote emotional safety, trust, and empowerment. A strengths-based approach focuses on identifying each youth’s individual assets, talents, and potential, rather than defining them by their challenges.
We believe that relationship and attachment are the foundation of healing. By creating authentic, caring connections with our youth, we help foster a sense of belonging and stability—key elements in supporting emotional development and long-term success. Our caregivers are not only trained professionals; they are mentors, role models, and consistent sources of encouragement and support.
At Bravelight, we don't just provide housing—we provide a home environment where youth are seen, heard, and valued.
Specialized Residential Care Homes:
At times, by the request of MCFD, we are asked to create a specialized home for a particular youth. Once various implications and issues are identified by MCFD we move forward to create the space for a specialized therapeutic environment based on each youth’s certain needs. This is done collaboratively with MCFD, the professionals on the youth’s care team, the youth and the youth’s family. We tailor a supportive, inclusive, caring climate for the youth to thrive in. Once the specific needs are assessed by the care team, a thorough plan is set into place and is evaluated at regular increments. As much as possible, the youth is part of this planning and evaluation.
We once again, use a trauma focused, strengths-based approach and hold the concepts of relationship and attachment as crucial in being able to properly support our youth. We work in collaboration with teams such as the Complex Care and Intervention (CCI) resource to get our youth to a state where stabilization and healing can take place.
Each youth has a lead caregiver who oversees the implementation of the plan set into motion by the care team. These homes are overseen by our resident coordinator and our executive director to ensure the utmost quality of care for our youth and their families in these often difficult times.