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 Our experience at Florence Crittenton is that a pregnancy offers a unique opportunity for growth and change in a teen’s life. The treatment model we provide is primarily relationship-based in which the emphasis is always on building and facilitating mutually respectful, safe and trusting relationships. This creates a 24-hour therapeutic climate that not only teaches, models and fosters healthy and appropriate relationships, it sets the stage for clients to safely work through the issues and challenges they may face. A primary focus of this approach is intensive individual and group work centered around healthy bonding and attachment in relationships. This becomes especially important as the girls we serve prepare to create a safe and healthy environment for themselves and their babies.
We also use a client and family-centered approach in which the client and her family are central to treatment planning and implementation. Treatment strategies are always individualized and strength-based with the emphasis on building upon personal and family strengths to build assets and resiliency that ultimately lead to long-term success. Florence Crittenton’s approach is restorative rather than punitive and we work with each client to instill a sense of personal and family responsibility and community service.
An individualized treatment plan is designed by the client and her treatment team which is made up of those individuals identified as important in ensuring the client’s ongoing success. The treatment planning process always begins with identifying individual and family strengths that can be built upon and nurtured. Goals are created and interventions and supports designed for each area of need identified by the team resulting in a comprehensive and integrated approach to treating the whole individual.
Many of the teens in our care have experienced significant loss, difficult transitions, trauma or maltreatment causing them to form unhealthy, insecure and/or disorganized attachments in addition to other significant issues. It is our experience that in order for a teen to form a strong and healthy attachment with her baby, she must experience a positive, trusting relationship with caring adults. In order for this to happen, every staff person at Florence Crittenton invests significant time and effort into forming healing relationships with each of the girls.
At Florence Crittenton, we are able to offer individualized attention and treatment focus to each teen and baby. Our living environment provides for 24-hour supervision. Mental Health Therapists, Bonding and Attachment, Parenting and Independent Living Skills Specialists, a Lactation Specialist and a Chemical Dependency Counselor work on site to provide individual, and group therapy and ongoing assistance in the milieu. All of our staff are trained in our treatment model and philosophy so that consistent care and treatment occur on a 24-hour basis. Additionally, we partner with over 25 professional community service providers to offer the best array of services.
- Interdisciplinary and specialized diagnostic services
- Ongoing individualized treatment planning with comprehensive team
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Family therapy
- Milieu therapy
- Attachment and Bonding therapy
- Referral for Psychiatric/Psychological assessments
- Medication management
- Chemical Dependency counseling
- Crisis support and stabilization
- Intensive Clinical Case management
Extensive research has proven that the manner in which we are parented affects us for the rest of our lives. Specifically, we are keenly aware of the importance on the formation of a strong, healthy and secure attachment between a mother and her child which is why a relational attachment philosophy is at the heart of our clinical services. The first 3 years of a child’s life is a critical period for physical, neurological and emotional growth. The scientific and clinical community is acutely aware that if a child lacks a secure, loving, consistent caregiver and environment in these first critical years that this can have a profound negative effect on their ability to engage in healthy relationships for the rest of their lives. Conversely, when a parent has the tools and opportunities to provide a caring, nurturing and healthy early environment for her child, it is an opportunity to change forever her child’s chance at having a positive, healthy and successful life.
We are honored at Florence Crittenton to have the unique opportunity to serve not only one generation of at-risk young mothers, but know that we positively and forever impact the lives of their children and the many generations to follow.
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