Therapeutic Group Home Care
Therapeutic Group Homes provide a family-like setting in the community while, at the same time, offering necessary emotional and behavioral treatment. Each of the homes is staffed with Teaching-Parents (a married couple who lives in the home with their own children) and serves six to eight youth. This provides a stable environment in which troubled youth ages 12 to 18 can experience healthy family interactions and learn to manage their emotions and behaviors. Mental Health services are provided, and youth attend public schools.
Locations:- Fayetteville (Washington County)
- Heber Springs (Cleburne County) Winfred D. Polk Home
- Helena-West Helena (Phillips County) Ophelia Polk Moore Home
- Little Rock Fillmore Campus (Pulaski County)
- Magnolia (Columbia County) Magale Manor
- Magnolia (Columbia County) John Magale Home
- Mulberry (Crawford County), on the Arkansas Sheriffs' Youth Ranch campus
- Searcy (White County) Blanche E. Johnson Home
· Referral sources - Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS), churches, parents and other Methodist Family Health programs
· Capacity - 48 beds
· Length of stay - 9 to 12 months or longer
· Criteria for acceptance -
- Ages 12-17 where outpatient treatment is not appropriate
- Has functional impairments and has been removed from the home due to psychiatric/emotional problems that meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM] criteria
- Youth/Custodian agrees to treatment plan and voluntary attendance of therapeutic services
- Youth is in need of a controlled and structured environment on a 24-hour basis
· Uses the Teaching-Family Model
· Payment sources - DCFS, private arrangements based on sliding scale and ability to pay
· Aftercare, placement and follow-up - excellent within the Continuum; varies - case by case; dependent on DCFS caseworker
Contact Residential Services Information for additional program information.
Contact Donn Walters for admission information.