Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. provides a broad range of therapeutic programs designed for adolescents. Recognizing the unique nature of this age group, along with the demands facing teenagers and preteens today, Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. professionals employ a developmental perspective in understanding and treating a broad spectrum of adolescent behavioral health problems. The services offered to this age category range from individual outpatient appointments to an intensive, after-school, group treatment program; intensive care management; and residential treatment for youth who are unable to immediately return home following hospitalization.
KARE
The Kearny Adolescent Residential Experience (KARE) provides a home-like setting where adolescents who are leaving a psychiatric hospital can take the first step back to their families and communities. KARE is a three-to-six month community-based residential program where trained professional staff provide a therapeutic environment for up to eight adolescents between the ages of 11 and 17.
The KARE program is fully supervised 24 hours a day. Every hour is used to the best advantage through a full schedule of activities. Supervised educational activities; an After-School Partial Care Program; individual, family and group therapy; as well as recreational events, are all part of a typical day. KARE clients also attend school on a 12-month per year basis at a special education facility approved by the New Jersey Office of
Education.
Clinical staff are available at all times for discussion of personal problems, ventilation of feelings regarding stressful issues and assisting residents to work through feelings of anxiety and fear associated with leaving the hospital and re-integrating into the community. Clinical services include family, group, and individual therapy; referral, after-care and follow-up services upon discharge; psychiatric evaluation and ongoing psychiatric assessment; medication monitoring; parental education and support groups.
New Directions
With its strong philosophical commitment to working with families and community support systems, New Directions - Comprehensive Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.'s After-School Partial Care Program - has proven to be a cost-effective alternative to out-of-home placement for at-risk youth. Designed for preteens and teenagers ages 11 through 17, New Directions is a valuable treatment option for young people in need of intensive, structured therapeutic activities two to five evenings a week in order to address serious emotional problems.
The program offers:
Youth Case Management Program
The Youth Case Management Program provides comprehensive, community-based services to seriously emotionally disturbed youth who are being discharged back to their families and the community following a psychiatric hospitalization. The youth case manager identifies adolescents who may continue to be at high risk following hospitalization and attempts to ensure that these vulnerable individuals receive the appropriate aftercare services. The primary goal of the Youth Case Management program is to make sure that these youngsters are linked with needed services that will reduce their risk of future hospitalizations and which will maximize their potential for learning, growth, and emotional stability.
Key services include:
Clients who will benefit from the Youth Case Management Program include those who have a history of not responding to traditional community-based clinical interventions, those who require extensive service coordination and linkages; and those who are at continued risk for psychiatric hospitalization or out-of-home placement. |
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