Day Treatment Program - Boulder, MT

Program Description

Day Treatment services have been developed to serve youth who reside in group homes, foster homes, or with their families that lack the skills for functioning in the regular school population. Youth enrolled in the day Treatment program receive educational services from certified staff while working on their mental health and behavioral problems. the focus of Day Treatment activities tend to be each youth's mental health needs as identified in his/her individual treatment plan in the context of classroom and individual activities. Educational services are coordinated with the local school district.

Program Benefits

The primary goal of Day Treatment is to stabilize the youth emotionally while addressing the youth's needs for social and life skills training as well as educational needs. Once emotional and educational stability is achieved, the youth's treatment team will attempt to transition the youth to local school services withn the school facility. Each classroom is staffed at a minimum 1:6 ratio of staff to youth, and therapists carry a maximum caseload of 12 youths.

Suggested Uses

• Youth who are performing poorly in regular schools because of emotional and/or behavioral problems.

• Youth who have received mental health services in a school setting and have not been successful.

• Youth who exhibit severe emotional and behavior problems that would interfere with their performance in a regular or special education setting on a school campus.

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