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- EIN 04-2604427
- (413) 584-1310
- 78 Pomeroy Ter Northampton MA 01060-3378 USA
- www.cutchins.org
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Causes: Mental Health, Residential Mental Health Treatment
Mission: The mission at cutchins programs for children & families is to help children and families transform significant emotional distress into increased resilience, hope and quality of life. Using clinical sophistication and expertise we incorporate humility, kindness, and passion to create a community of care. We seek to support the healing process with innovation and integrity, and to serve as a model for best and promising practices. Our clinicians, teachers, and staff hold a willingness to look deeply, to learn and to play.
Programs: Residential program - northampton center for children and families (nccf) is an innovative residential program incorporating dialectical behavior therapy (dbt), trauma informed care, and sensory-based approaches into its residential and clincal services. The program provides care for youth ages 8-21 in small group living environments located on a campus based setting. Nccf collaborates with youth, families, and caregivers to create individualized therapeutic plans including: individual, family and group therapies, psychiatry, occupational therapy, behavioral and community-based supports. Family and caregiver involvement is considered essential to the program's success as it is also a building bridges partner program.
intensive treatment program - the three rivers program is a clincally intensive residential treatment program(cirtp), the most intensive residential program in the state, for children ages 6-12. Three rivers is the only cirtp in masschusetts and is accredited by the joint commission. This program provides care that coordinates the following components: residential environment, individual, family, and group therapies, educational, psychiatric, medical, and occupational therapy services. The three rivers program is further distinguished by its commitment to the national trauma informed care and building bridges initiative, the use of sensory-based approaches, and is recognized for its performance in restraint reduction.
see schedule oschool program - the new directions school (nds) is a chapter 766 private school licensed by the massachusetts department of elementary and secondary education (dese). Nds provides special education to 30 students, many of whom are in the nccf residential program and a number of day students. Using an alternative approach to education, nds fosters creativity, motivation, and students' pride in their achievements. Increasingly, nds provides families with integrated resource help in the broader educational community while working within the state frameworks, the school offers individualized instruction, integrates dbt, and trauma-informed care approaches, addresses social and emotional components, providing extracurricular and skills building activies. Nds operates year round offering interactive academics or work opportunities.