PROGRAMS
- Hope and Healing Day Treatment
- Hope Lives!
- Special Gifts
- Special Gifts Camp Experience
- Striving Towards Excellence
Hope and Healing Day Treatment
A more intensive expansion of HOPE Lives!, Hope and Healing Day Treatment was added to CHAPS programming in 2011. Hope and Healing Day Treatment provides 4 hours per day, 5 days per week of group and individual sessions. The small group interaction encourages each adolescent to lend to the healing of her peers, while building and strengthening a healthy and supportive friendship.
The full range of treatment engages the family and the youth through individual and family equine-assisted counseling sessions, in-home family sessions, school collaboration, county social work, as well as collaboration with other providers and agencies.
Hope Lives!
Hope Lives! is a suicide prevention prevention program for at-risk youth. Hope Lives! serves adolescents and families who have had very limited success in traditional forms of treatment. The youth served are severely depressed, suicidal, self-abusive, self-destructive, and barely engaged in the activities of life: school, athletics, church or family. They are frequently using drugs or alcohol, sexually promiscuous, and involved in associated legal difficulties.
Individual, on-going services provide one 50-minute session per week, and utilize equine assisted therapy as well as other creative counseling.
Special Gifts
A program that provides equine assisted and other creative mental health services to youth living with Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder, Anxiety Disorders and other pervasive developmental disabilities. The therapist operates based on the perspective that many "disorders" can be managed by effectively identifying the nature of what is blocking the child's ability to grow, while utilizing their gifts and interests to enable them to succeed. The program's strength-based approach builds skills essential for restoring and/or increasing social interaction, self-regulation, and behavioral goal-setting.
Ongoing services provide individuals and families with one 50-minute session per week, and utilize equine assisted therapy as well as other recreational activities and new technology, such as the iPad.
Special Gifts Camp Experience
In addition to our Special Gifts services, CHAPS offers Special Gifts Camp Experiences that take place on at least one Saturday each month. This is an opportunity for any child (within the program or not) to participate in a group environment. During this camp experience, counselors and volunteers work with youth in a group setting and focus on a specific topic each camp. Each camp is intended to focus on one area, while taking into account the individual needs of each youth participating. This program provides a fun, social way for youth dealing with difficult issues to get some guidance and support, while making friends who have similar life experiences.
Striving Towards Excellence
This program encourages collaboration and integration of school, home, and CHAPS programming. Striving Towards Excellence allows school districts to identify at-risk or high-risk students as appropriate for CHAPS, and we work together to find a time during the school day to arrange transportation to our facilities. The small group interaction with peers that spend the day together outside of CHAPS builds strong relationships. Each client is taken through the intake process and services can be billed to insurance.
