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Altus Academy Enrichment Program for At Risk Youths Program Goals The primary goal of this program is to develop a student’s ability to manage various levels of stress that maybe encountered throughout their lives. Through this understanding, students will be more prepared and able to successfully obtain an education in the least restrictive environment. Additionally, fewer students will be removed from their families and homes and placed in extremely restrictive environments. To meet this goal, a comprehensive after school program has been created, which will provide the opportunity for students to experience success in a structured individualized educational and therapeutic setting. The program will improve personal relationships, negative behaviors, ability to self-regulate and parental education and involvement.
Children in the program have behavioral
problems with common backgrounds and experiences that place them at high
risk of failure in their present school, and or home settings. Additional
intensive support services are provided for the improvement or maintenance
of functioning consistent with learning, the development of independent
living, and enhanced self-sufficiency. These services can be provided by the
approval of the IEP team for each student’s Individual Education Plan.
All students are referred through their local school districts. Goals and Objectives 1. Improve a student’s ability to manage various levels of stress as it develops allowing them to successfully obtain an education in the least restrictive environment, thus reducing the incidences of removal from the family, home and school. 2. Increase a student’s ability to successfully transition from extremely restrictive environments to less restrictive environments. 3. Strengthen family units
4. Increase participant’s positive identity
including, personal power; self-esteem; sense of purpose; and positive view
of personal future. Program Description 1. Day Treatment- 210 minutes of continuous therapeutic milieu. Day treatment hours are Monday through Friday, 2:00 – 5:30 pm. Servicing ages 3 to 22. a. Intake Review, Plan Development, and Assessment/Evaluation individualized treatment plan is developed, including components such as behavioral assessments, emotional, addiction, and global functioning. Review of existing treatment plan is conducted prior to beginning of the program and includes implementation and monitoring of the plan. b. Limited Case Management: assessment, treatment plan development, monthly treatment team meetings, and monthly family/guardian collaboration/meetings. c. Process Groups: will help students develop the skills necessary to deal with their individual problems or issues using the group process. Problem-solving strategies and the group will assist in resolving behavioral and emotional problems. Address mental health issues through therapeutic components of individual and group therapy. d. Adjunctive Therapies: art, recreation, music, drama, individual fitness programs and board games. Therapeutic modalities will be used which utilize self-expression to develop and enhance skills directed toward student treatment plan goals. 2. Individual Therapy: Use of psychosocial methods within a professional relationship with a licensed mental health professional, to assist the student to achieve greater realization of his potential. 3. Temporary Behavior Support: One to one behavioral assistance and one to one interventions designed to accomplish specified outcomes written in the treatment plan. TBS can be provided anywhere in the community, home, school and other places the student is experiencing difficulties. This service can also be provided to assist the student in the transition from one least restrictive environment to another, i.e., a school setting to another or a residential setting to another. 4. Family Counseling: Altus will ensure that families are made a part of the treatment plan by including them in the student’s program planning, providing family-system interventions, and developing effective parenting strategies. Through frequent communication, identification and development of family strengths, licensed mental health professionals will assist the family and student to build and overcome obstacles. Counseling services can take place in the home, school or satellite locations. 5. Initial Assessment: Independent Psychological and/or Psychological/Educational Assessments are performed by licensed mental health providers. Initial assessment testing can include, but not limited to: MMPI, Rorschach, WISC, Vineland, TAT, Myers-Briggs, Beck, CBCL and others; evaluation; and planning. 6. Targeted Case Management: Services that will assist the student to access needed medical, educational, social, pre-vocational, vocational, rehabilitative or other community services. Activities may include, but are not limited to: monitoring service delivery to ensure access, monitoring of students progress, placement and plan development. Case Management services can be face to face, by telephone with students significant support persons and anywhere in the community. For more information contact Altus Academy (909) 829-9999
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