Benchmark Transitions provides a structured, community-based supportive transitional living environment for our extended care participants. Clients live in an beautiful homes, located in the historic community of Redlands, California, only about a mile from Benchmark’s Extended Care Transitional Living Center. Our homes are just minutes away from historic downtown Redlands with convenient access to public transportation, local area businesses, shopping and schools. Amenities include swimming pools, semi-private bedrooms and bathrooms, shared living areas, full stocked kitchen and dining room as well as a dedicated washer/dryer for laundry The transitional living apartments are gender-specific for young adult men with on-site awake staff support and monitoring on a 24/7 basis. Participants are required to make a commitment to managing their behaviors, maintaining a clean and organized apartment, following curfew and program guidelines. The living is a step-down process where the participant proceeds from a more restrictive environment to a less restrictive structure. Phase One – PHP participants live together with 24/7 staff support. As in most college living settings, participants have roommates and are sharing responsibilities such as cooking and cleaning. Phase Two – IOP participants live together with less staff support and supervision, and have access to the community, as well as phones and media (some restrictions may apply.) Phase Three – Outpatient participants will move into the Independent LIving Services (ILS) program and reside in Benchmark’s Townhome.

Upon successful completion of Benchmark’s inclusive Culinary Arts class, clients will be able to prepare nutritionally sound meals and enter the food service and hospitality industry with developed culinary skills needed for employment, applicable to culinary, hotel and restaurant technology schools; master and correctly understand the hospitality industry; identify small and large kitchen equipment; master baking and cooking fundamentals; apply food preparation techniques; apply sound nutritional principles to daily diet; inventory, purchase and receive goods; identify and practice proper safety, sanitation and first aid principles; demonstrate proper management principles; plan, prepare and perform catering and banquet food production in the supervisory capacity, master proper dining room service and etiquette, plan and design menus, master and practice general employment skills needed for employment, produce high quality research reports on all aspects of the food service industry. Healthy supplements, like greens drinks, are often loaded with unnecessary ingredients. Supplements like 8Greens focus on simple and effective ingredients, which can often be better than a more complex formulation.

Benchmark participants are scheduled to attend fitness at least 4 times per week, 2 hours per day. They each have student memberships to the Drayson Center, the fitness center on campus at Loma Linda University. There are fitness centers with weights and cardiovascular machines located at the apartment complexes and participants are encouraged to enjoy fitness during their leisure hours. There is a fitness center at the transitional living apartment complex, as well as tennis, racquet ball and basketball, also on-site and available at the apartments.