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Community Centered Services

Day Resource Programs

Residential Treatment

Community Transition Program

Diagnosis Specialties

Evidenced Based Practices

 

Referrals & Admissions

 

 

"The chapter of my life at Turning

Point is one I will never forget

because I was given the

opportunity to get sober and begin

the process of dealing with life on

life's terms."

- Turning Point Youth

Residential Treatment

Turning Point's gender-specific residential treatment programs serve male and female youth ages 12-21 with round-the-clock care in home like environments. Youth in the residential treatment programs may be struggling with behavioral health and substance abuse issues; family and legal issues; behavioral difficulties and educational concerns.

Our male residential program can house as many as 33 youth at one time. Our female residential program has the capacity to serve 20 youth at one time.

Residential treatment programs provide youth with a safe and structured home environment in which they can learn to modify behaviors and better handle life's curveballs. The average length of stay in our residential programs is 3-6 months.

Core components of our residential programs include Behavioral Health & Substance Abuse Treatment, Education, community service projects, transition services/life skills development, and after care.

Evidenced-Based Practices in this program include:

  • Pathways to Self-Discovery & Change
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
  • Gender Specific Programming
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Positive Behavior Support
  • EMDR
  • Motivational Interviewing

 

Therapy Modalities

Milieu Therapy

Described as the "life space" where a youth experiences therapy through daily living experiences. A behavior management system based upon teaching youth responsibility, honesty, integrity, cooperation and self-control through a consistent daily routine, confrontation and discipline is the cornerstone of Turning Point's treatment programs. This modality is crucial in addressing youth's victimizing behaviors. The program's confrontation system is designed to allow clients to receive constant feedback from staff and peers on how their behavior affects others, those they live with, family and the community. Daily treatment assignments are designed to address these behaviors and belief systems that set the youth up for failure. Daily treatment assignments also teach alternative behaviors and choices to replace the dysfunctional ones.

Individual Therapy

Each client will participate in this modality with their primary counselor (Bachelors level) for at least one hour per week and with their primary therapist (licensed or provisionally licensed) at least one hour per week. The therapeutic goal is to provide more insight and depth into a youth's problems and strengths as it applies to his/her specific treatment plan and living experience.

Family Therapy

Each client will be offered weekly family therapy with their primary therapist. Family is
defined as any persons who have a significant role in the client's life and who the client views as 'family'.

If the family is Spanish speaking only, an interpreter will be utilized in the sessions.

Our therapists take a systems approach with families and focus on the following goals:

  • Reframing the presenting problem as a multigenerational problem that is caused by factors beyond the individual.
  • Lowering anxiety and the "emotional turmoil" that floods the family so they can reflect and act more calmly.
  • Increasing differentiation, especially of the adult couple, so as to increase their ability to manage their own anxiety, transition more effectively to parenthood, and thus fortify the entire family unit's emotional wellbeing.
  • Using the therapist as part of a "healthy triangle" where the therapist teaches the couple to manage their own anxiety, distance, and closeness in healthy ways.
  • Forming relationships with the family member with "the problem" to help them separate from the family and resist unhealthy triangulation and emotional fusion.
  • Opening closed ties with cut off family members.
  • Focusing on more than "the problem" and including the overall health and happiness of the family.
  • Evaluating progress of the family in terms of how they function now, as well as how adaptive they can be to future changes.


Group Therapy

Each client will participate in a minimum of three 60-minute therapy group sessions per week, facilitated by licensed or provisionally licensed therapists. These are structured "process groups" which allow youth to seek more insight and solutions toward issues through feedback, confrontation, disclosure and sharing experiences with their peer group. These groups are formatted to help youth model appropriate behavior, empathize with others, practice social skills, and learn to give and receive honest feedback and emotional support.

 

Therapeutic Recreation

Each client participates in recreational therapy on a daily basis. This program is coordinated and supervised by a Masters level recreational specialist. The weekly recreational goals for youth focus on helping them participate in an assigned activity; show respect for self and others; demonstrate responsible behavior; display cooperation and teamwork; learn to respect boundaries, property and equipment. This therapy affords youth a chance to support peers and channel energy successfully through physical activities while having fun.