Over 1100 site visits and extensive experience with a wide variety of schools and therapeutic programs ensures that we have extensive knowledge of the available options. Our knowledge goes deeper than the brochures, videos, and websites typically available to parents. We spend approximately three months a year traveling throughout the country to meet with families and clients, to attend professional conferences, and to assess treatment programs and schools.
We provide a wide range of services assisting parents, families and their loved ones with behavioral health, educational and emotional growth needs, while taking into account a client’s strengths as well as the challenges they are facing.
Immediate support for parents and families
Objective planning and guidance in choosing a placement and designing a plan that meets the psychological, psychiatric, and educational, needs of the student
Maintaining oversight and on-going support for the duration of the client’s placement.
First hand knowledge of schools and programs for clients with special needs such as:
- Short term intensive residential programs and wilderness programs for intervention, treatment, and assessment
- Emotional-growth and therapeutic boarding schools
- Long term residential treatment centers
- Traditional Boarding and Military schools
- Transitional living programs for 18-to-30-year-olds who need direction and support
Residential Treatment Centers
The term Residential Treatment Center has different meanings as there are multiple types of programs that refer to themselves as residential treatment centers. Short-term, intensive treatment programs designed for intervention, evaluation and intensive treatment that have lengths of stay varying from 28-90 days can be an initial first step for a client preparing to step down along a continuum of care.
Long-term residential treatment centers have an average length of stay between 6-12 months. These programs provide ongoing intensive individual, group and family therapy while incorporating accredited academics when appropriate for educational needs.
While this term can be intimidating for parents and families, residential treatment centers should be considered a smaller and more individualized therapeutic boarding school.
Therapeutic Boarding Schools
Therapeutic boarding schools can provide a more typical high school experience while providing a range of therapeutic services to support your child’s emotional growth needs. These schools blend academics, recreation and therapeutics to provide a well-rounded experience during the middle and high school years. While most therapeutic boarding schools do not participate in state sanctioned high school athletics, many participate in intramural sports as well as a variety of individual athletic activities.
Outdoor Therapeutic Experiences
Therapeutic wilderness programs provide an alternative to short-term residential treatment programs. They provide clinical assessment and intervention while putting your child in an environment that will boost self-esteem and ego strength. At their heart, therapeutic wilderness programs are dedicated to building children through empowerment, accountability and insight-oriented, therapeutic experiences. They are among the most popular interventions of parents due to the substantial amount of information gathered during this experience and the significant movement of their children who were previously stuck in a spiral of negative momentum.
Intensive In-home Services
For families in the St. Louis region, we have created an alternative for families who have found little relief from traditional therapies or are considering out of home placement. The approach is an intensive, short-term, home-based therapeutic model that targets the specific challenges of individual families in the context of their home, school, and community. Treatment providers are master’s level clinicians who are trained in evidence-based, in-home models. Home Remedy's ultimate goal of family preservation services is to maintain children with their families, or to successfully reunify them after an out of home placement in a hospital setting, therapeutic wilderness program, residential treatment center or therapeutic boarding school. www.homeremedystlouis.com Momentum Coaching Group assists younger adults between the ages of 18-32, focusing on personal wellness, while developing sustainable skills as they transition to independence. www.momentumcoachingstl.com[/accordion-item]
Traditional Boarding Schools
Over the past 15 years, we have identified a great number of traditional boarding schools that provide a more individualized boarding school experience in a unique environment for students who have struggled in traditional public or private school settings. We have established tried and proven criteria that we use in determining which traditional boarding schools we recommend for our clients. Additionally, we partner with the most experienced and knowledgeable consultants specializing in traditional boarding schools placements to ensure that no school is overlooked in your child’s search.
College Placement
College placement work is a very specialized niche. A reputable college placement specialist is going to have at least 15 years of experience and schools tours. Again, we partner with experts who have made college consulting their life’s work. Their knowledge, experience and expertise is unique even in their industry. We make sure each student is matched with a consultant that is ideally suited for their process.