Childrens Partial Care (CPC)

CPC utilizes the group modality for the Partial Care program to provide children with peer support, enhance social skills development, eliminate problem areas in both the school and family setting. Current groups include but are not limited to: group therapy, art therapy, movement therapy, recreation therapy, skills workshop male/female group, current events, social skills training, self awareness, relaxation, confrontation group, family group, and other topic groups as needed. Field trips are included for educational, cultural, and recreational purposes. CPC staff conducts intakes, family session, orientations and individual sessions on an as needed basis. Client's medication needs are coordinated with the client's prescribing physician.

The Children's Partial Care Program provides seriously emotionally disturbed youth with a highly structured intensive day treatment program. The program goals are as follows:

• Prevention of psychiatric hospitalization of youth at risk of hospitalization.
• Prevention of re-hospitalization of youth who have been hospitalized.
• Provision of a transition for hospitalized youth from the hospital back into the community.
• Shorten the length of stay when psychiatric hospitalization is unavoidable.
• Resolve or stabilize short-term problems or crises situations for decompensating clinical conditions which if not arrested would require inpatient hospitalization/treatment.
• Diagnose those individuals for whom an extended or direct observation is necessary to determine functioning and interactions, to identify problem areas, and to formulate a treatment plan.
• Prevent further development of debilitating pathology in children who are defined "at risk".
• Improve the social and emotional adjustment of the children to enable them to fully benefit from their academic program.
• Provide supportive services to children and their families to enhance positive family functioning.