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Intake & Assessment Services How to reach
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Centralized Intake provides a single point of entry into Applewood Centers. Intake links consumers with the most appropriate agency services in an integrated and efficient manner. It also redirects individuals, who do not meet Applewood Centers’ admission criteria, to other community resources. Provides same-day service in urgent situations.
Assessment. Each individual seeking services is assessed to determine the best program and course of treatment. In addition, one or more of the following specialized assessments may be indicated based on the symptoms the client is experiencing:
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Counseling for children up to age 21 and their families. Provided by licensed social workers, counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists. Includes individual, family and group therapy. Services are provided in the therapist’s office, in the home, school or community.
Psychiatry includes psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and consultation with primary care physicians regarding psychiatric medications.
Partial Hospitalization includes intensive goal-focused group treatment for children ages 5 to 14, who present developmental delays, behaviors as a result of abuse, among other problems. The program helps children develop stable coping and relationship skills to enable better functioning and independence within the community.
Day Treatment includes individual, family and group therapy for children ages 5 to 14 who require intensive behavioral health intervention, but are able to live at home or within the community. Special education is provided with social skills and practical living groups, as well as expressive therapies.
Early Childhood Counseling for children birth to age 3 who are experiencing social, emotional, or behavioral difficulties. Also provides solutions to parent-child relationship difficulties.
Community Psychiatric Supportive Treatment (CPST) A number of CPST teams provide services for children and youth: with emotional and behavioral disturbance; who have been witnesses of violence; who are reunifying with their families and/or are in conflict with their parents.
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Out-of-home Care (Residential) Services
Residential Treatment for children ages 5 to 15 with severe emotional and behavioral difficulties, unable to live safely in the community. Provides intensive, multifaceted therapeutic treatment using insight-oriented, cognitive and behavioral approaches. Includes individual, family and group therapy; medical and dental care; therapeutic recreation; and on-campus special education.
Dual Diagnosis Treatment for young men ages 14 to 18 with behavioral health and chemical dependency issues. Shelter Care provides shelter, education and interventions designed for youth at risk of repeating criminal offenses or in need of evaluation for placement. Twenty-four hour, 7-day staff secure facility provides males and females ages 8 to 17 with group and individual counseling, Life Skills, conflict resolution training, education and recreation. Independent Living for those without permanent caregivers or who are leaving custody of a children services agency. The program helps young men and women ages 16 to 21 transition to adulthood.
Foster Care provides substitute care in licensed foster homes for children up to age 18. Homes are needed to care for sibling groups, teens and children with special needs. Parents are provided with on-going training and support and a social worker is available to families 24 hours/day, seven days/week.
Adoption matches waiting children with
loving families who want to provide permanent homes for children in need. |
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The Eleanor Gerson School is an alternative high school for youth who have not been successful in standard educational settings. Typically, the school helps students who are depressed, suicidal, withdrawn, highly-anxious, have a history of absences and tend to internalize stress. Internship programs including:
Continuing Professional Education courses that focus on clinical interventions and empirically supported treatments.
Bilingual Team includes a psychiatrist, psychologist, therapists and other professionals fluent in Spanish.
Research Partnerships with academic and healthcare institutions, concentrating on the study of various child and adolescent behavioral health disorders. Projects are typically funded with support from state and federal agencies. |
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