About Terrin's Closet
Program philosophy
Terrin's Closet believes holistic wellness is important. Both parents/caregivers and adolescents within a special need family enduring sever behaviors experience extraordinary challenges and require a unique set of support services to aid in their own holistic wellbeing. Terrins Closet has been created to help these special families embrace and enhance their social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
DIRECTOR, terralynn johnson
I am a agent of change. I am a advocate for families facing challenges surrounding special needs adolescents. I am a mother of two adolescents that both have had severe behaviors. I am a certified Life Coach. I have a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology/Behavioral Science from UNO, followed by a Master of Science in Community Counseling from Bellevue University. My experiences include, but are not limited to, family advocacy, working with out of home placement youth as a educator within group homes and facilitating group and art therpay. My most recent experience involves managing a collaboration of service providers serving pregnant and parenting teens and young adults.
“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day—if you teach him to fish, you feed him for many days.”
Chinese proverb
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Terrin's Closet addresses the following program goals:
*Families demonstrate behaviors that promote self-sufficiency.
*Youth increase executive functioning skills and improved life situations.
*Families improve or maintain healthy family functioning, problem solving and communication.
*Caregivers understand and have created or expanded upon their social capital