College Hospital's Youth Services program is clinically designed for children ages 13 – 17 who exhibit:

• Suicidal thoughts and actions
• Depressive symptoms
• Thought disorders
• Self-abusive behavior
• Oppositional defiant behavior
• Substance abuse
• Threatening and aggressive behavior
• Delinquency or truancy related to psychiatric problems

Program Components:

• Daily intensive treatment for the duration of a patient’s stay.
• A secured unit provides behavioral intervention to reinforce patient progress toward treatment goals.
• A multidisciplinary team including a psychiatrist, nurses, therapists, and trained mental health workers direct the treatment focus on crisis intervention and stabilization.
• Daily group focus on communication and adaptive coping skills
• Family participation to enable all members to develop more effective ways of interacting.
• Patients are enabled to continue education while in treatment through a partnership with the local school district.

To help ensure the most positive outcome, our multidisciplinary team focuses on developing individualized after care plans. This process begins upon admission.