CBHCare provides a broad range of therapeutic programs designed for adolescents. Recognizing the unique nature of this age group, along with the demands facing teenagers today, CBHCare professionals employ a developmental perspective in understanding and treating a broad spectrum of adolescent behavioral health problems. The services offered to this age category include:

• individual outpatient appointments
• an intensive, after-school, group treatment program
• intensive case management
• residential treatment for youth who are unable to immediately return home following hospitalization

New Directions

With its strong philosophical commitment to working with families and community support systems, New Directions - CBHCare's After-School Partial Care Program - has proven to be a cost-effective alternative to out-of-home placement for at-risk youth. Designed for teenagers age 12 through 17, New Directions is a valuable treatment option for young people in need of intensive, structured therapeutic activities two to five evenings a week in order to address serious emotional problems. Download a flyer here.

The program offers:

• Group therapy
• Individual therapy
• Family therapy
• Art therapy
• Parent support groups
• Computer lab
• Cooking group and dinner
• Recreational outings
• Psychiatric evaluations, medication monitoring and on-going psychiatric assessment.

Youth Case Management Program

The Youth Case Management Program provides comprehensive, community-based services to seriously emotionally disturbed youth who are being discharged back to their families and the community following a psychiatric hospitalization.

The youth case manager identifies adolescents who may continue to be at high risk following hospitalization and attempts to ensure that these vulnerable individuals receive the appropriate aftercare services.

The primary goal of the Youth Case Management program is to make sure that these youngsters are linked with needed services that will reduce their risk of future hospitalizations and which will maximize their potential for learning, growth, and emotional stability.

Key services include:

1. Assessing continuing service needs
2. Linking consumers to needed services
3. Providing interim services while linkages are being established
4. Providing consumer advocacy and referrals

Consumers who benefit from the Youth Case Management Program include those:

• Who have a history of not responding to traditional community-based clinical interventions
• Who require extensive service coordination and linkages
• Who are at continued risk for psychiatric hospitalization or out-of-home placement

KARE

The Kearny Adolescent Residential Experience (KARE) provides a home-like setting where adolescents who are leaving a psychiatric hospital can take the first step back to their families and communities.

KARE is a three-to-six month community-based residential program where trained professional staff provide a therapeutic environment for up to eight adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17.

• The KARE program is fully supervised 24 hours a day.
• Every hour is used to the best advantage through a full schedule of activities
• Supervised educational activities
• An After-School Partial Care Program
• Individual, family and group therapy
• Recreational events

KARE consumers also attend school 12-months per year at a special education facility approved by the New Jersey Office of Education.

Clinical staff are available at all times for discussion of personal problems, ventilation of feelings regarding stressful issues and assisting residents to work through feelings of anxiety and fear associated with leaving the hospital and re-integrating into the community.

Clinical services include:

• Family, group, and individual therapy
• Referral, after-care and follow-up services upon discharge
• Psychiatric evaluation and ongoing psychiatric assessment
• Medication monitoring
• Parental education 
• Support groups