Residential Programs
Treatment Residential Child Care Facility
Foster and Group Homes
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Education and Day Treatment Programs
Savio School
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Community-Based Services
Community-Based Services
Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
Offense-Specific Interventions
Multisystemic Therapy - Problem Sexual Behaviors (MST-PSB)
Sexual Abuse Intervention (SAI)
Youth Corrections
Savio Transition Program (STP)
DYC Provider Network
Youthful Offender System
Savio YOS Program
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- Intensive in-home treatment for sexual perpetrators and their families
- Stresses community containment and family supervision of perpetrators.
The SAI program works with sexually abusive adolescents and their families to stop abusive behavior and prevent its recurrence through monitoring, education and therapeutic intervention. The program utilizes a high level of supervision and involvement, and emphasizes community safety and client accountability at all times. The program serves adolescent males and females, twelve to twenty-one years of age, who have committed a sexual offense.
How does Savio use a "home-based" model?
- therapists are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
- services are provided in the home, school, neighborhood and community
- caseloads of therapists are small (4-6 families per therapist) and treatment is intensive, often including multiple contacts with family and other participants every week
- length of treatment averages 3-6 months for clients transitioning from previous treatment settings and 6-9 months for those clients who have not previously been in treatment
- therapists work in teams and provide coverage for each other's caseloads
- each team has a supervisor and expert consultant who advise weekly on all cases
The SAI program holds clients accountable through the use of internal and external control measures including polygraphs, monitoring, safety contracts and relapse prevention plans. This approach requires the integration of attitudes, expectations, and practices, and is implemented in collaboration with other involved professionals.
Savio's program utilizes the following principles as the foundation of the treatment approach:
- Community safety is the primary concern.
- Victims have a right to safety and self-determination.
- Remorse and empathy should be expressed through accountability to victims.
- Treatment of clients with sexual offenses requires a coordinated team response.
- Successful treatment and supervision of clients with sexual offenses is enhanced by the positive cooperation of family, friends, employers, and members of the community who have influence in their lives.
Any combination of the following services may be provided to the youth and family, as needed, within the SAI program:
- family therapy
- family support groups
- marital therapy
- individual sessions with youth
- individual sessions with parents
- offense specific treatment groups
- evaluation of the youth's peer network and arranging alternative activities
- collaboration with schools to provide containment plans and monitoring of the youth while in school
- coordinating activities with school systems, court, and/or other social services agencies
- arranging a psychiatric consultation
- transportation
Upon completion of the SAI program the youth and family will possess the skills to:
Youth:
- Identify offending pattern
- Control and resist responding to inappropriate fantasies
- Utilize coping skills
- Demonstrate empathy for others
- Demonstrate knowledge and use of relapse prevention program
- Develop future plan to remain relapse free
Parents:
- Identify behaviors and phases of abuse cycle
- Identify risk factors and symptoms of victimization and abuse
- Demonstrate consistent and appropriate supervision of children
- Demonstrate a consistent ability to provide structure and discipline
- Maintain healthy boundaries for all family members
Victims:
- Demonstrate appropriate and effective refusal and assertiveness skills
- Demonstrate ability to set appropriate boundaries with others
- Be able to report future sexual abuse or sexually inappropriate behavior
For more information contact: Diane Melancon, CBS Adolescent Coordinator, 303-225-4116
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