Associated Press
AP
GULFPORT —
Mississippi Children’s Home Services has received a $3 million state grant to build a new Gulf Coast group home and vocation training transitional work force housing facility on 80 acres in Harrison County.
MCHS officials say they will build 20-bed cottage-style group home for transitional work force housing and a vocational training center to help address an increased demand for mental health and training services while preparing clients to enter the work force.
MCHS officials say its Mississippi Segue Program is a six-to-nine month program for behaviorally challenged youth, aged 14-18, with specialized educational needs.
They say it will offer a full array of traditional therapeutic services, as well as nontraditional therapeutic activities such as therapeutic recreation, ropes course, fishing, camping and other programming.
