INTENSIVE SECURE RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT

Intensive Secure Residential Treatment Services are for children who exhibit a serious, persistent and pervasive mental disorder as diagnosed according to DSM-IV.  This extended placement resource provides active coordinated and professional intervention in a highly structured and secure environment for a number of diagnostic entities. 

 These children typically display an inability to function consistently in an open, public school setting and present a chronic runaway risk.  They also typically present a history of showing rage, including acting-out behavior or depression.  Psychiatric supervision and review of child’s individual treatment and any medication is provided by a psychiatrist.  Meets level IV needs.  Drug/alcohol problems do not include the need for detoxification and not actively suicidal. 

 This service is available at Farmington Children’s Home.

Admission Criteria

•  IQ above 60

• Medical needs which can be met in the agency
• Drug/alcohol problems, if present, do not include the need for detoxification
• Meets DFS level IV needs
• Not actively suicidal
• Need for secure treatment setting
• No recent issues of fire setting behaviors 

• Ages 12-18. Male or Female

Appropriate for Service

• Children with DSM-IV diagnosis with moderate to severe intensity.
• Children unable to cope with less restrictive alternatives
• Psychiatric Diversion or children in need of psychiatric maintenance.
• Conduct disordered children
• Depressed children
• Habitual runaways or severe truants
• Oppositional defiant children
• Children at risk of self-harm or harm to others
• Children with prognosis of reducing needs to this level of care
• Severe adoptive identity problems
• Behavior disordered

Contact:
Farmington Children's Home
Caren Mell
Phone: 537-756-6744
email: care...@care4kids.org