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Group Residential Care Services
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• Therapeutic Treatment Program
Burlington utilizes a holistic team approach to treatment that promotes the mental and spiritual wellness and behavioral stability required for successful community reintegration. Individual programming is based on identification of each youth’s strengths and challenges, modification and redirection of interfering behaviors and generalization of targeted behaviors. The treatment teams assess the resident and plan, implement and evaluate care. Treatment includes individual and/or group therapies, behavioral management, recreation, experiential learning programs, and psychiatric and general medical services.
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Beckley Campus - Located in Beckley, Raleigh County, the Beckley Center’s two gender specific Level III cottages each accommodate 10 youth, ages 8 – 18. One Level II cottage also houses 10 youngsters of the same range of ages. |
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Burlington Campus - Located in the village of Burlington, Mineral County, two Level III residential treatment cottages and a Level II girls group home comprise this campus. Each cottage contains a gender specific population of ten youngsters ages 8 – 18. The Rees-Headlee Cottage houses male residents while the females reside at Kitzmiller Cottage. The girls group home, Craig House, serves seven girls ages 14-18 while the boys group home located a few miles from the campus at Keyser, WV serves six boys in the same age group. |
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• Educational Service
The West Virginia Department of Education Office of Institutional Education Programs administers on-grounds schools at both campuses. A new school buildingwas constructed at the Beckley Center campus in 2005 and the education program at Burlington campus is conducted at the newly-renovated Collins Education Center.
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| • Spiritual Life
Youth in Burlington’s residential programs on both the Burlington and Beckley campuses are provided opportunities for spiritual growth. Staff includes a chaplain at both sites who works with youth to insure that spiritual needs are being met. The spiritual life program is a part of each child’s total treatment program while in our care.
All youth are encouraged to participate in available spiritual life programs, both on and off campus. Christian oriented worship, educational experiences, and recreational and fellowship activities are offered regularly on campus. Cottage groups participate in off campus religious services and activities in local United Methodist Churches, including Sunday worship services. Provisions are made in consultations with their guardians and family membersfor youth from religious backgrounds other than United Methodist to worship in their faith of choice .
We strive to help each at-risk youth in our care to attain these goals:
To develop...
• A relationship to religious faith
• A relationship to the world
• A relationship to others
• A relationship to self
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| Community-Based Services
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• Specialized Foster Care Services
Serves infants, children, and youth in more than 100 foster homes throughout West Virginia.
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• Adoption Program and Birth Parent Counseling Services
Provides counseling services to those facing an unplanned pregnancy, who need assistance in deciding the best plan for their child (within the family home, adoption, etc.). It also provides opportunities for prospective adoptive families to pursue an adoption in the following three areas: Domestic Newborn, International, or Special Needs. Services include, but are not limited to Adoption Education, Home Study Services, Placement Services, Post Placement Services, Support Groups and Adoptive Family Activities
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• Right from the Start Services
Serving at-risk expectant mothers and newborn infants, assistance with prenatal care, nutrition, guidance, training and transportation is provided through a contract with the WV Office of Maternal & Child Health.
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• Youth Services
Provided to teenagers experiencing problems as an early intervention support service through a contract with the WV Department of Health and Human Resources.
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• Family Stabilization Services
A short-term, in-home intervention program for families identified as needing services to increase individual and family functioning and reduce the risk for more intensive services. Provided in collaboration with the Garrett County Partnership for Children & Families.
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•PATHWAYS - Transitioning Youth to Independence
Serving youth ages 16 to 21 that are transitioning from residential facilities or long-term foster care into independent living. In collaboration with other agencies, provides youth with individualized vacational training and supervised job placements, as well as direct instruction and modeling of social life and daily living skills. Youths progress through 3-Phase program designed to facilitate their becoming successfully independant through the process of acquiring a combination of tangible and intangible skills and attributes.
• Student Intervention Services
An early intervention program designed to work with school-aged children and adolescents and their families. The program operates in collaboration with the Monongalia County Board of Education.
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• Sarah's (Sexual Abuse Response and Help) House - Child Advocacy Center
Our mission is to create a safe community for children and families by preventing and responding to child abuse through teamwork, collaboration and services.
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