Residential
Pressley Ridge offers a range of residential services for children and youths with mental health, and/or delinquency issues. The specific problems these children face may vary. When therapeutic placement outside of their home and school settings is deemed necessary, Pressley Ridge residential services are available in a variety of settings.
The ultimate goal of residential services is to help these troubled children and their families learn the skills that will enable them to return home to their communities successfully.
Residential Model Principles
- Physical, emotional, and psychological safety is imperative to meeting the needs of the child in residential care. Our environment is one where the opinions, feelings, and beliefs of the children are not only listened to, but acted upon so that they are empowered to have choices in all aspects of their treatment.
- We believe in the primacy of the Teacher/Counselor. The Teacher/Counselor is the treatment professional who is the change agent in a child's life while in residential care.
- We serve young people with intensive needs who engage in troubling behaviors. Treatment programs are individualized based on a behavioral assessment and resources are allocated to meet the needs of highly challenging youth.
- Treatment is a process of calling forth competencies. All programs provide treatment that is individualized, strength based, respectful and delivered with dignity.
- The Group is important to the young person. Groups at Pressley Ridge are designed and developed to provide structure, stability and therapeutic support in order to enhance the growth and adjustment of their members .Therapeutic games and activities appropriate to the interest and skill level of the residents are key elements of Pressley Ridge's treatment program.
- We honor familial relationships. The ultimate goal of residential services is to help these troubled children and their families learn the skills that will enable children to return home successfully. Pressley Ridge encourages family support and participation in all phases of treatment.
- Our programs succeed when our kids and families succeed. We must constantly assess and reassess aspects of our programming in order to provide a continuum of quality care.We recognize that what constitutes success for one young person does not necessarily constitute success for another.
Residential Treatment Service Settings
Pressley Ridge offers a range of accredited residential treatment services for children and youth with mental health and/or delinquency issues. Although the specific problems these children face may vary, therapeutic placement outside of their home and school settings is deemed necessary. Pressley Ridge residential services are offered in a variety of settings:
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Ohiopyle/Wilderness Camp
Therapeutic services in a wilderness setting for delinquent or dependent pre-teen and teenage boys. -
Residential Services for the Deaf
Comprehensive child-centered services in conjunction with our School for the Deaf for seriously emotionally and behaviorally troubled deaf children and adolescents. -
Male/Female Residential Treatment Facilities (RTF)
Short-term, non-hospital-based group homes or residential treatment facilities with 24-hour supervision. -
Home Places (MR/DD)
Homelike setting for severely troubled children and adolescents with developmental delays and mental health/mental retardation diagnoses. -
Supported Transitional Living
Youth learn independent living skills while addressing treatment needs. They assume more responsibility and demonstrate life skills while having unsupervised community time.