Residential Programs

This critical care program works with adolescent males ages 12–18 who have mental health and behavioral needs that require enhanced staffing and clinical services beyond the scope of regular residential programming.

This critical care, co-ed facility serves children ages 6–10. A nurturing program design offers nine single bedrooms for children who are unable to be maintained in a foster home level of care.  Many counties have reported significant challenges in finding appropriate foster home placements for these children. Unfortunately, this can result in multiple moves and failed foster home placements, compounding the intensity of the child’s behaviors.

The Special Supervision and Treatment Programs are based on a developmental model that has a family and youth focus. The ages of this program range between 11-15 years old. The treatment milieu provides the youth with a safe, predictable, highly structured, adult controlled, teaching-learning environment.   This population will receive specialized treatment to address their sexually harmful behaviors.  Various components of this specialized treatment include identification of risks, individual and group therapies, family therapy, including safety planning in the home. Concept groups are the foundation of the program and include safe boundaries, healthy sexuality, empathy skills, and sexual abuse cycle. Staff will focus on how a child responds to his daily milieu providing teaching opportunities to develop pro-social skills.

A 9 bed critical care program serves young women between ages 13 to 17 years old.  Residents receive weekly individual therapy, attend daily groups, and receive in-the-moment skills coaching from program childcare workers.  Contact with caregivers, family therapy, and engagement with community resources are also considered essential to the change process.  Interventions such as yoga, volunteering, community-based activities, and specific trauma therapies supplement the DBT-informed program.  Residents work with a program mentor weekly and develop individualized treatment objectives within a four phase system that helps monitor and recognize achievements in the treatment process.

The specialized treatment requirements of younger boys’ ages 10-13. The program offers embellished staffing and supervision combined with enriched clinical and psychiatric services. These young boys have significant emotional trauma and behavioral challenges that are unable to be managed safely at a lower level of care and are requiring frequent moves at a foster care level. The program has a nine bed capacity including 7 singles and one double bedroom, as well. This program can assist children with Permanency Planning Goals of adoption who have struggled for various reasons in a family setting.  Services offered to these youth include; individual and group therapy including play therapy, anger control and social skills training, recreation therapy, including experiential–community access, and a strong emphasis on milieu therapy focusing on attachment and relationship building.