Therapeutic Living
Stevens Treatment Programs provides a highly structured, staff-secure therapeutic setting designed for safety. Youth are placed in cottages and classrooms specific to their etiology. The structure incorporates a daily routine that offers consistency, predictability and the highest level of supervision. Meals are prepared in a central kitchen and served family-style. A nutritional specialist helps the culinary department prepare delicious healthy meals that meet nutritional guidelines.
Positive behavior is rewarded with movement up a sophisticated, exceptionally designed behavioral program. Youth have the opportunity to move through the highly structured behavioral program on the main campus to a less structured system in the Transitional Living Program (TLP), located in a nearby community and then back to their families or independent living. Youth make this transition by reaching designated levels and stages in the cottages and in treatment team determination.
Recreation and Leisure
Promoting a positive, healthy environment that focuses on therapeutic progress through experiential learning is what makes Stevens’ program so special. Stevens has developed a well-rounded recreation program that operates on a philosophy that emphasizes youth’s physical, social and emotional development. Stevens offers a wide range of recreation and leisure programs that stimulate interest and increase self-esteem. The objectives are simple: to provide a wide variety of recreational activities; to support good health, stress reduction, and building positive self concepts; to teach and broaden experiences, and to promote sportsmanship and fair play.
The campus setting includes a spacious ball field that youth participate in any number of sports and recreational programs, basketball, tennis and volleyball courts, and a full size gymnasium. A campus pond provides a fishing venue for students to enjoy and where educational activities are conducted. Some of the activities youth experience include:
| • Baseball |
• Computers |
• Yoga |
| • Tennis |
• Movies |
• Camping |
| • Soccer |
• Ping Pong |
• Hiking |
| • Track |
• Pool Table |
• Fishing |
| • Volleyball |
• Board Games |
• Music |
| • Video Games |
• Arts & Crafts |
• Painting |
Advocates
Staff is assigned to youth when a youth is accepted into the program. Advocates are responsible for orienting the youth to every aspect of the program. Advocates play a key role in implementing and monitoring individual, educational and treatment plans. Youth receive a student handbook outlining program rules and expectations, which are reviewed with his assigned advocate.
| Core Value: A DIVERSE board and staff make the Stevens COMMUNITY a richer, more productive place to live and work. |
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