High-Intensity Support Program

We are working with children and young adults with high intensity behavioral needs Learn more and join us as we grow to serve more children! 

The Need

In 2024 Goldie Floberg opened a new program specialized for children with intellectual developmental disabilities with the most complex behavioral needs so they can live their life of significance and joy. Some kids with IDD require advanced, high intensity behavioral support. They cannot live in conventional community-integrated programs but require more advanced staffing and interventions. These behavioral supports address physical aggression, self-injurious behavior, elopement, and property destruction, to name a few. With these interventions, behaviors can be impacted so significantly that as the kids grow into adulthood, community-integrated living becomes possible. 

The Program

Our program is unique and person-centered service with behavioral support plans, 24 hour-care, medical care, and supervision by highly trained behavioral support specialists. Our program includes advanced practices to impact the lives of children and young adults with high intensity behavioral support needs.  

  • Applied Behavior Analysis interventions and strategies.  
  • Psychiatric and physiologic consultations.  
  • Special attention to nutrition with dietician approved menu choices.  
  • Daily instruction on living skills, personal hygiene, safety, wellness, and independency. 
  • Recreation therapy and activities on a sprawling, park-like property.  
  • Heightened security with perimeter fence, indoor and outdoor security cameras, and delayed egress paths.  
  • Behaviorally hardened homes (shielded televisions, reinforced walls, water-resistant bathrooms, window shielding, and specially designed furniture). 

For more than 100 years, our community has been our partner in providing the best programs and care for kids in need. Our program gives kids with IDD and autism an option, right here in Winnebago County, for a residential program that meets their needs. Your philanthropic support is important to our success.