The Local Environment Model (LMM) is a proven and successful model for collaboration and continuity within habilitation. The goal is to strengthen local initiatives and expertise, so that follow-up after a stay at Beitostølen Health Sports Center is as good as possible.
The local environment model
Through LMM we collaborate with a habilitation service, a municipality or several neighboring municipalities on a group stay for children and young people from the same local environment. The habilitation service or the municipality puts together a group of up to ten children/young people who apply for a stay at Beitostølen Helsesportsenter together. Each application is assessed individually by the assessment unit in the regional health authority to which the child belongs, and/or the admission team/medically responsible consultant at BHSS.
Organization and content
The stay lasts for 2 or 3 weeks.
3-5 organized activity sessions with professional teams every day.
In addition, the leisure department offers optional activities and a social program in the evenings and on weekends.The offer is individually tailored, but is mainly organized in groups with a focus on activity testing and skill learning.
All children and young people have their own companion, usually a mother or father, during their entire stay. We focus on guidance and exchange of experiences with guardians, for the best possible transfer to activities in the home environment.
Local professionals are invited to attend professional days at Beitostølen Health Sports Center during their stay. Read more about the professional days .
One to two months before the stay starts, employees from Beitostølen Health Sports Center will visit the local community to provide information about the stay.
Information about the group with regard to individual needs, expectations and wishes is obtained, and goal-setting work begins.
The preliminary meeting includes children, parents and local professionals, and forms the basis for a good and adapted stay.
The group stay itself is carried out as an ordinary stay .
Local professionals are invited to attend professional days at the health and sports center during their stay. Read more about professional days here.
Before departure, plans are made for the continuation of activities individually and together with the group, in consultation between the children/youth with their guardians, the professional team at Beitostølen Health Sports Center and local professionals.
3-4 months after the stay at Beitostølen Health Sports Center, a follow-up meeting is arranged in the children's/youth's local environment. At the meeting, children, parents, local professionals and representatives from the health sports center meet again to discuss experiences and evaluate goals and follow-up measures.
It is our intention to offer one bare-field and one winter stay to all Local Environment Groups within a two-year period.
Local professionals or employees in habilitation services who wish to collaborate with us on a Local Environment Group can contact communications manager/intake coordinator Anna Marie Jørstad ( anna.marie.joerstad@bhss.no) .