Adolescent Residential Services

"In counseling, I learn how to ask for what I need, not fight for what I want. This creates a whole lot of peace in my life." - Tracey's Place of Hope resident, 2002

The residential program is a Level-12 group home (facility #415600238) for adolescent girls, with a dual focus on both substance abuse and mental health issues. It is a specialized program designed for “at-risk” or “high-risk” female youth presenting with a range of challenges that impact their recovery, such as criminal justice involvement, trauma and abuse, community violence, family conflict, school difficulties, homelessness, or socioeconomic hardship.

Our approach is based on the premise that adolescent girls have unique needs, which demand a set of integrated treatment components to meet those needs:

• Treatment planning is both individualized and comprehensive, and is informed by the clients’ experience of their culture, race/ethnicity, language, sexuality, gender and religion.

• The residential milieu is a safe and nurturing environment where clients are able to utilize their relationships with others and with the larger community to create a more positive and integrated sense of self.

• Intensive collaboration with community partners facilitates seamless consistency and support.

• The program structure anticipates and addresses emotional and cognitive developmental challenges by allowing clients to make and learn from mistakes, as well as rewarding successes.

• Through increased community access, self-advocacy and empowerment are developed as necessary tools towards long-term stability.

• Relationships within the Tracey’s Place community support existing strengths, as well as respecting clients’ resilience and strivings for independence.

Intensive Case Management

Our intensive case management services are focused on managing each client’s educational placement and ongoing success, generating transitional and aftercare plans, and connecting clients to the appropriate community resources that will support them both in the program and after they graduate.  Their community activities and relationships create a framework for imagining and realizing their full potential and are often what have the most significant impact on their ability to build on existing strengths and emerge from treatment as more mature and integrated young women.

Graduation

The goal for all clients is to graduate successfully and to be able to sustain the changes that they’ve made, free from the effects of substance use and self-destructive behavior.  Progress towards graduation depends on their ability to understand and follow through with increased program and community responsibilities; effectively advocate for their needs in a range of situations; meaningful engagement in recovery related activities and the development of a strong sober support system; positive and sustained participation in treatment, school, and the larger community; and an ability to support peers in moving towards their goals.

Please contact us for more information about our Adolescent Residential Program or other services.