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Christamore Family Treatment Center is a program of
Young House Family Services.
RESIDENTIAL
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We provide treatment services for at-risk
adolescents and their families designed to accomodate the needs of
both male and female clients ages
11 - 17.
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Our residential program has bed space for 16
residents, and it is a comphrehensive level of group care. Residents
attend school on-campus, and the educational program will accommodate
clients with special educational
needs.
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Psychiatric services, including medication
evaluations and medication management, are provided by Dr.
Christopher Okiishi. All other medical needs are met through service
providers within
the community.
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Residents are referred to the Residential
Program by a DHS Social Worker or a Juvenile
Court Officer.
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The treatment needs of our clients may include
mental health issues, substance abuse, grief issues, behavior
disorders, and sexual
and physical abuse
issues.
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Treatment services include intensive skill
development to teach clients skills such as anger management,
coping skills, social skills, etc., as well as individual,
family and group therapy.
DAY TREATMENT
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Our
on-site staff provides supervision, skill
development, crisis intervention and behavior
management.
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Students
are referred to the Day Treatment Program from area schools or a Juvenile Court
Officer.
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Young House staff provides
ongoing classroom monitoring and crisis intervention, including redirection and progressive
intervention. All staff are trained in non-violent crisis intervention using the
Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Model..
SCHOOL PROGRAM
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Our School Program follows the schedule of the
Mt. Pleasant School Calendar and the academic material
is provided through the Mt. Pleasant School District and AEA.
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It is staffed with its own certified teachers and staff that assist
with behavior intervention and academic
assistance.
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Students
are referred to the School Program by area schools and
AEA.
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Students in
the School Program have been displayed behaviors that either endangered themselves
or other students, destruction of property, or extremely disruptive in the school
setting to where it interfered with the learning process of
other students in their school.
REMEDIAL
SERVICES
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Medicaid-funded
Remedial Services are utilized for individual, family, group and
crisis intervention for the Residential
Program.
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Individual and Family counseling
are also available to Medicaid-eligible students in the
Day Treatment and School
Programs.
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