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Causes: Human Services, Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Mission: To provide high quality, community-based treatment services for children and adolescents and their families. Our integrated, multi-disciplinary approach offers a continuum of services to help children and families develop the skills necessary for emotional, intellectual and physical growth and prepares them to maintain safety outside of treatment settings.
Programs: Foster care programs - foster care serves children via five different programs each designed to address the intensity of service required for the individual child. These services range from basic case management support to support for children who have committed sexual offenses in a program that stresses personal responsibility and accountability. Foster parents are provided with the necessary training to deal with a child according to the level of his/her individual needs. Number of individuals served: 329
residential programs - residential treatment programs provide 24-hour individualized care to emotionally disturbed adolescents, children and their families in three distinct community homes in western massachusetts. Treatment is designed to meet the specific needs of each resident. Clients are treated in a milieu setting by a multidisciplinary team. Number of individuals served: 54
tri-county school - tcs is a . 5 certified special education school that services children in grades k through 12 who have a range of learning, emotional and behavioral needs. Students who graduate receive a diploma from the sending school district indicating that he/she met the graduation requirements of that school district. Number of individuals served: 97
the agency also operates three therapeutic group homes in the state of connecticut in accordance with the milieu model in massachusetts, an after-school program that is activity based to provide additional support to kids and families, a family stabilization team that serves families in the community who are experiencing emotional distress by providing case management and clinical support, and an expressive arts therapy program that utilizes the creative art making process to promote growth,healing and self awareness in a therapeutic setting.