Community-based
Pressley Ridge offers a range of community-based programs, depending on site location. We strive to strengthen, preserve and keep families together so that children and youth with challenging behaviors can remain at home and in their schools and communities. This service line provides individualized, enhanced mental health services to children and families in their homes, schools, and communities. It also provides intensive, short-term, family-centered services to families and children who have emotional health problems. The goal of services is to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations and out-of-home placements for children and assist in reunification from placement when applicable.
Program Purpose
The primary purpose of the Family-Based Mental Health Program is to reduce the need for out-of-home placements (particularly inpatient hospitalizations) for children with mental health diagnoses. To accomplish this, the program provides a range of intensive short-term services that will help families better manage problems.
Community-Based Principles
Children develop best in their families. We believe that children belong in their families.We believe that the family is and should remain society's primary institution for supporting a child's growth and development.
Children should be connected to their community. Community involvement promotes opportunities for children to associate with adults who role model positive values and practices and to join with other children who are involved in appropriate social activities.
Children with intensive needs can be safely served within their homes. A model that is child centered but family focused allows for the plan to be very specific to the child's needs but also address the services the family will need to care for their child at home.
Ecological assessment and planning are essential for effective service delivery. By recognizing both the child's and the family's strengths during the treatment planning process, the team addresses not only what the child and family need but what is already working for them. Strengths of the child and family are channeled into areas that promote success, skill development and positive relationships.
Treatment is a process of calling forth competencies in families. Staff members accomplish this through a variety of actions including: family therapy, skill acquisition, active teaching, relationship building, advocacy, and accessing community resources.
Family crisis is an important opportunity for learning and growth. In fact, we value crisis as a part of treatment which creates an alliance between the family and the treatment professional. Managing through the crisis teaches competency to families who may believe they are unable to solve serious problems on behalf of their children.
Staff members, by building relationships, create the catalyst for change. Our staff members and the relationships they create with their families are the spark that begins the process towards "manageable difficulties." It is the partnership between families and staff that builds the foundation for trust, and trust is the glue that holds all of the treatment together.
Our programs succeed when kids and families succeed. Pressley Ridge treatment is successful when the family is able to say they are successful. Our models are created to assure we are doing what we say and monitoring both our actions and our outcomes.