Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center
Languages
- English
- Mandarin
- Russian
- Spanish
- Tagalog
- Vietnamese
Specialized In
- Children (ages 4- 13)
- Youth (ages 15 to 18)
- Transitional Youth (Ages 18 to 22)
- Adult (ages 22 and up)
- Seniors (Ages 65 and up)
Contact information
207 Skyline Blvd, San Francisco
San Francisco, 94132
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The Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center is a recreational and vocational community center in San Francisco that offers support and opportunities to children, teens and adults with developmental disabilities and acquired or traumatic brain injury.
Program Info
Adult Services: Through our innovative day program OneCenter, we provide a wide variety of support, programs and services for adults with developmental disabilities and traumatic and acquired brain injuries.
Our adult services include:
- OneCenter (participants have the opportunity to select from a wide variety of activities and classes, including but not limited to: expressive arts, health and wellness, and community outings to baseball games, the zoo, and museums)
- Vocational Services (explore career interests and have access to all appropriate services and support to fulfill their employment dreams or volunteer work)
- Able Gardeners (provides landscaping and groundskeeping services to both residential and commercial customers)
- Residential Living (two residential homes for up to 11 adults with intellectual disabilities, plus on-site staff)
- Brainstorm (social recreation and community integration program that serves adults who have an acquired or traumatic brain injury (TBI/ABI)
Children & Youth Services: We offer a range of stimulating, interactive, diverse and enriching social recreation activities for children, teens and transition age youth with disabilities focusing on helping children and teens develop independence, friendships, social skills and lead healthy, fulfilling lives.
Our youth services include:
- After School Program (Activities include social groups, art & crafts, dance, swimming, recreational sports, computer lab, community outings, life skills classes, sensory integrative activities, and developmental social groups)
- Summer Camp (during summer sessions, we offer fun and enriching recreational activities for children and teens)
- Transition Age Youth (focuses on building vocational and living skills so that our students develop independence, social skills, and agency. This program provides work readiness training, including soft skills classes, individualized independent living skill activities, enrichment classes, and socialization opportunities)
Aquatics: The Pomeroy Aquatics program is centered around the Herbst Therapeutic Pool, which opened in 1984. The pool is a salt-based, warm water pool (92 degrees) and is one of the only therapeutic pools in San Francisco. The pool serves our Adult Day program participants, our after-school program, and the greater community of adults that can benefit from warm water therapy.
Our aquatics services include:
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Therapeutic Swim (We offer various therapeutic swimming programs for individuals seeking aquatic therapy or gentle aquatic exercise. Ideal for seniors or those with limited mobility. We offer lap swim, open swim, and instructor-led classes)
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Swim Lessons (swim lessons are offered to community members aged six months)
Adult Services: Adult Day Services accepts participants ages 18 through senior adults with physical and developmental disabilities who require meaningful and productive day activity, functional skills development, social recreation, and/or leisure education for increased independence. Individuals with some degree of self-care and behavioral needs may be accepted with increased staffing (up to a 1:3 ratio) as outlined in their IPP. Participants with intensive, disruptive behavioral needs or significant medical needs may not be appropriate for (or accepted into) the program.
Children & Youth Services: Our Goal is to provide a recreation program in a safe and supportive enviorment that enhances the lives of all participants. In order to ensure maximum safety of everyone in the PRRC Children & Youth Services Department, and given out program staff to participant ratio of 1 (staff) to 5 (participants), the following program entrance criteria have been established.
- Not more than two children in wheelchairs (or other assisted walking devices) per group.
- Children must be able to stay with the group with verbal prompting only.
- Children who are physically aggressive to themselves or others may not be eligible for our program.
- Children who elope may not be eligible for program.
- Our staff cannot provide the following medical needs:
- Catheterization
- Tube feeding
- Receiving injections
- Other skilled nursing care requirements
* Children who begin to exhibit any of the behaviors described in criteria 2, 3, or 4 may be demitted from program *
Every participant admitted to PRRC must successfully complete a 30-day probationary period to establish the participant's appropriateness for our program and out ability to meet their needs.
Finances
Types of Services
- Behavioral Day Program
- Paid Internship Program (PIP)
- Residential Homes
- Social Recreational Services
- Supported Employment