Earning Care Bucks: Recognizing Effort and Achievement
🎯 For Individuals We Support
Individuals earn Care Bucks for achieving personal growth and demonstrating self-direction.
- Goal Achievement: Earned by successfully meeting PCP goals in areas like employment and skill-building.
- Demonstrating Choice: Being an active participant and primary decision-maker in their own support and daily life.
- Positive Behavior: Displaying our core values toward staff, peers, and community members.
🌟 For Direct Support Professionals & Staff
Staff are recognized and rewarded for professionalism, excellence, and dedication.
- Embodying Our CARE Values: Earning bucks when managers or directors observe the display of Care, Appreciation, Respect, or Encouragement.
- High Performance: Receiving bucks for high scores on employee performance reviews and competency checks.
- Professional Development: Earning bucks for successfully completing required training and demonstrating new skills.
The Care Store and CARE Status
The Care Store is located at our main Rolla office where Care Bucks are redeemed for items, experiences, or resources chosen by the individual or staff member. This process reinforces the link between effort and self-directed purchasing power.
Beyond purchases, sustained high performance is recognized through the tiered CARE Status system. As individuals and staff accumulate more Care Bucks, they advance through the tiers to receive special, status-based recognition rewards: