FAITH Family and Independent Treatment Home

FAITH
FAMILY AND INDEPENDENT TREATMENT HOME

Program Mission:

The co-ed program provides a seamless continuum of residential treatment, featuring a locked secure unit, a newly-renovated staff secure unit, a substance abuse unit and an open transitional/independent living unit. The primary goal is to prepare the resident and his family for reunification. When reunification is not possible, the program prepares the resident for independent living or a foster family.

Target Population:

Male and female residents ages 13-18 who may be served in locked secure, staff secure, substance abuse and transitional settings. All residents will be taught independent living skills. The continuum may consider sexual issues specific referrals.

Treatment Philosophy:

The program is designed to help residents regain control over their lives through five levels of care. The philosophy of treatment is to identify the needs and strengths of the child and family, supply an environment that challenges cognitive distortions, and work toward the identified goals. The program will address the psychological, social and spiritual needs of each resident.

Referral Process:

Referrals will be subject to a prescreening of the material by the multidisciplinary team. Information will be reviewed in a timely manner and the placing agency will be notified with recommendations within 24-48 hours.
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If the child appears appropriate for the program, a pre-admission interview with the admission coordinator will be set. After the admission application has been filed and the pre-admission interview takes place, the resident will be eligible to enter the program.

Levels of Treatment
1. Locked Secure is designed for residents deemed to be a danger to themselves or others, are failing a level of care or are determined to be a high risk for danger due to runaway or substance abuse. The treatment focus is on ensuring the child's safety, issue identification and anger management. The primary tenets of this level are safety, respect and responsibility with an emphasis on cognitive restructuring, grief and loss counseling and anger management.

2. Staff Secure is designed for residents in need of structured placement but not Locked Secure. This level focuses on continued emotional and behavioral stabilization, social skills, anger management positive peer/community/authority interaction and relationships, substance abuse education, beginning independent living skills and cognitive restructuring.

3. Substance Abuse Treatment is available for residents deemed in need of intensive substance abuse treatment. This level of care helps children and families regain control over the damaging effects of addiction. There is an intensive focus on rebuilding relationships that have been negatively impacted by substance abuse and criminal activity. The family is involved in the individual treatment plan (when possible) and family reunification is the discharge plan. Continued aftercare services are provided to the resident and the family at no cost.

4. SKILL is a level of care available to residents who have successfully completed treatment goal objectives in the Staff Secure or Substance Abuse setting. They begin to focus on re-integrating more fully in a community setting. Residents focus on job training, education, and preparation for family reunification, foster care or an independent living program.

5. ILS is designed for residents in need of independent living skills training who have completed portions of the SKILL level. Residents are provided support and assistance as they prepare for future independence. The focus is to place responsibility on the resident with a philosophy of "learning by doing." Youth are able to gain employment on and off campus. They complete leadership and job skill training. Youth learn to balance therapy needs, educational goals, budgeting requirements, transportation while working toward a return to foster care, adoptive home, biological home or their own apartment. Aftercare services are made available for residents who transition into apartments.

Discharge Planning:

Plans for discharge begin the day the resident is admitted to the program. There will be a comprehensive treatment plan designed to ensure goals are clearly defined with regard to discharge planning within the specific track in which the resident is placed. The continuation of care includes family reunification, foster placement and independent living. Residents will be enrolled in school upon discharge and will be linked to services as needed.

Program Features:

Seamless movement through continuum dependent upon specific needs of the resident and based upon multi-disciplinary treatment plan. No need to change placement. Program is flexibly responsive to the resident's individual progress and changing needs.

Weekly staffing and assessments of residents by the treatment team. Individual treatment review sessions. Weekly family planning sessions.

Daily monitoring of residents (24 hours, 7 days a week). Therapeutic Crisis Intervention to assure residents safety. Physical and psychotropic medication management, if indicated.

Group therapy and individual therapy sessions, team building, personal expression, and spirituality sessions with the campus chaplain.

On and off-campus job training and work experience.

Therapeutic individual and group recreation, weekly home passes and weekly community service projects. The recreation staff also utilizes a challenge adventure course to build individual confidence and team skills.

An on-campus school provides credit-bearing, individual curriculum. Residents qualified to attend public school receive intense tutorial support. Every effort is made to ensure each resident's education level is maintained and appropriate credits may be earned. The credit is then transferred to resident's home school upon discharge.

P.O. Box 843 Goshen, IN 46527-0843 . 574 875-5117 . e-mail: info@bashor.org