Monkey Business

Hart Community Homes Inc. was established in 1996 by dedicated people who wanted more for their communitys children. Today, Hart Community Homes Inc. offers comprehensive services to Orange County consumers in their homes and throughout the community. We operate two state-licensed residential treatment homes in Orange, CA for boys ages 13-18. Our youth have a background of abuse, parental alcoholism and drug addiction, family mental illness, neglect and abandonment. To promote the community integration of youth who have transitioned through the foster care system and to create services which expand their opportunities for personal freedom and choice. We serve some of the most at- risk youth in this mistreated population. The youth we care for will eventually come of age and emancipate out of the foster care system and become productive citizens in our community. When the boys are placed at Hart Community Homes they have been removed from their homes because of severe neglect, abandonment, or abuse. Within a supportive and therapeutic environment, these young men are provided opportunities to gain insight into themselves and acquire important problem solving and decision-making skills. Our program specializes in assisting each resident in gaining independent living skills before he is emancipated into the community. Our goal is to make a positive change for this special population through: Prevention – Carry out programs of independent living skills, workforce development training, education, and provide therapy, support, and self-awareness. Wherever possible network with other centers of influence and affiliates. Placement – Provide long term support to children in dependency programs by maintaining high quality standards at Hart Community Homes by providing the children under our care with a small six bed family home setting, offering them the opportunity to live and grow within the least restrictive, yet highly structured therapeutic environment. Emancipation – P