Adolescent boys, ages 12 – 18, who have been abused or neglected, or face significant mental health challenges often behave in ways that are not socially acceptable without treatment. When treatment at home is not effective, those behaviors must be confronted in an intensive, supportive environment. The Children’s Home of Reading provides two distinct residential programs for this purpose. The treatment time is as brief as possible, while allowing necessary time for the child to heal and learn to make better behavioral choices.
The youth who are accepted into these residential programs are carefully chosen because we believe that their behavior can change. Their choices are often the result of fear, anger, and loss of control over their lives. Most often, they have experienced traumatic events in their childhood, and need individual and comprehensive intervention to understand the roots of their behaviors so they can find healing.
The Children’s Home of Reading Residential Programs give these youth and their families an opportunity to overcome their challenges. They learn to take responsibility for their actions and their future…behaviorally, emotionally and academically. For many of our clients, that empowerment brings healing and positive behavioral changes. Hope for a better future is restored and lives are forever changed.
Residential Treatment Facility
This program serves up to 24 adolescent boys diagnosed with behavioral or psychiatric disorders whose behaviors require residential treatment. Although committed to providing the least restrictive environment for that care, it is a structured social/behavioral management program where cultural competence is stressed. Intensive treatment services are provided to both the child and their family, because we believe that family involvement is crucial to each young man’s success.
Specialized Residential Treatment Facility
This program also serves up to 24 adolescent boys. When these children face both diagnosed behavioral or psychiatric disorders and involvement in inappropriate relationships, these issues must be treated concurrently if they are to fully understand their challenges and successfully change their behaviors. This program is dedicated to provide seamless dual treatment so that both challenges can be overcome simultaneously.
Referral and Enrollment Information
If you believe your child would benefit from one of these residential treatment programs, please contact our Admissions Supervisor, Beth Garrigan, at 610.478.8266 ext. 503 or by fax at 610.898.0001. Pre-placement interviews may be required to determine if our program meets the needs of your child.
