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Residential Programs - Treatment Residential Child Care Facility

The residential program works with dependent and neglected and delinquent males, ages 12 - 18. It provides:

  • Family reunification and emancipation
  • Group, family and individual therapy
  • Time-limited, tracked treatment which permits prompt step down services
  • In-home family therapy during placement and aftercare
  • Parent support and education groups
  • Special and regular education
  • Seamless transitional services available following placement

Residential Treatment

  • Cognitive-behavioral interventions
  • Reality therapy
  • Focus on behavioral change through skill building
  • Brief, solution focused therapy approach
  • Level system to reward positive behaviors
  • Interventions based on proven research

TREATMENT TRACKS

Delinquency Prevention

  • Adjudicated and non-adjudicated at-risk, delinquent youth
  • Aggression Replacement Training
  • Restorative justice principles
  • Pro-social skills education, training and reinforcement
  • Group therapy model
  • Daily, weekly, monthly and pre- and post-assessment measures

Drug and Alcohol Treatment

  • Assessment, education and treatment services available
  • Urinalysis screening
  • ADAD approved program
  • CAC certified therapists and group facilitators
  • Relapse prevention focus
  • Motivational Interviewing techniques

Sexual Abuse Intervention

  • Intensive treatment for adjudicated sexual perpetrators
  • Psychosexual evaluations
  • Polygraph evaluations
  • Group treatment focus
  • Psycho-educational group for caretakers
  • Containment model to emphasize accountability and safety

Strategies

  • Replace anti-social attitudes and values with a sense of empathy and responsibility for one's own behaviors
  • Teach youth to identify positive peer associates, cooperate with others and follow rules of home and society
  • Correct thinking errors to produce law abiding behavior and positive decision making
  • Teach and practice interpersonal skills to maintain the youth in his home
  • Empower parents to fulfill their parental roles in order to promote continued success after discharge

Philosophy

  • Youth are best served within the family context
  • Strengths based programs enhance functioning and recognize progress
  • Residential treatment should be brief and provide youth and families opportunities to utilize new skills
  • Successful treatment outcomes require full participation of all involved parties
  • Relapses and setbacks are not seen as failures, rather as opportunities for additional skill development
  • Seamless services provide timely and cost effective step-down treatment options
  • Successful treatment must replicate rules, values and consequences of society
  • Youth benefit from a consistent, predictable environment
  • Successful programs stress outcome evaluations and continuous improvement

For more information contact: Rex Waring, 303-225-4017