Treatment

Clinical Services

Psychiatric, psychological and social work services are provided as part of the treatment team approach to the care of our youth. Case Management services also embrace the family-centered concept so that routine contact and work is done with the families of our youth. Medication requirements are assessed and filled as needed. Each resident is assigned a social worker, and guidelines are established for the development of a specific treatment plan, and ongoing individual sessions and group counseling are provided.

Skills Development

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is the primary treatment model utilized. DBT is employed in individual, group, and family counseling. All staff are trained to coach youth to use their DBT skills regularly.

Clinical staff offer a variety of group therapies in addition to DBT; Grief & Loss, Girls Circle, Not a Number (trafficking prevention), Trauma, Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment.

Direct care staff are trained to provide groups on Social Skills, Independent Living Skills, and Restorative Practices.

All staff are trained to utilize Therapeutic Crisis Intervention to prevent crisis.

Addiction Center of Broome County (ACBC)

We partner with ACBC providing adolescent substance abuse treatment from a satellite office on the Hillcrest campus. This program is available if there is a family history of addiction and/or if the youth themselves has a substance use disorder diagnosis. In many ways this is a preventive program incorporating harm reduction services aimed at alleviating underlying mental, emotional, and behavioral risk factors. Services provided include working with co-occurring disorders and evidence-based practices including Trauma Recovery Empowerment (B-TREM and G-Trem;) a psycho-education program aimed at adolescent boys, young men, girls and young women who experienced physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and witness domestic and community violence. The Hillcrest ACBC office is open to the community in addition to the residential treatment center. Youth do not need to be affiliated with the Children’s Home to be admitted to this program. Individual, group, and family counseling is available.