Day Treatment Program
The Day Treatment Program is offered in the school and at the residential program.
Day treatment services include weekly individual therapy sessions, family sessions, daily group sessions, collateral work with social workers, foster families, and the youth’s lawyers. Group therapy services include Boys’ Group,, Girls’ Group,, Substance Abuse Education, Humane Society, Karate Group with formal testing and belt promotions (which includes a yearly nation wide competition with other Special Education Students), art therapy, drumming, gay and lesbian youth group, are just a few of what we offer.
The youths and clinicians meet together with the on site psychiatrist at least once every six weeks for medication evaluation and assessment. Treatment review meetings with the clinicians, psychiatrist, house supervisors, teachers, the students’ parents, social workers, regional center workers, vocational rehabilitation counselors, and the students themselves meet quarterly to discuss the students’ progress, treatment goals, and discharge planning to ensure the highest quality services and evaluate the most appropriate individual intervention for each individual client.
We work in our intensive treatment program with youths diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depression, Bi Polar Disorder, Schizophrenia,
Attention Deficient Disorders, Learning Disabilities, and Cognitive Disabilities as result of physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse. Our goal is to provide a safe, structured, professionally staffed treatment setting. With a three youths to one staff ratio and the capacity for one on one on temporary basis, we strive to address the clinical issues so that our children may successfully integrate into a less restrictive environment with appropriate support services and increased coping skills, decreased symptoms, and effective support network system. The youth are in our program on an average for 18 to 24 months.
Families are seen as partners in the treatment of the youth. Families are strongly encouraged to be as involved as possible with frequent visits, phone calls, family therapy, involvement in the treatment review meetings and IEP meetings, involvement with the decisions about the client’s medications, by attending school functions, and by having a consistent avenue to communicate their concerns and views of how their children are doing.





