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Home and Community-based Treatment

Home and Community-based Treatment Services engage directly with youth and their parents in their own home. Staff assist parents to develop strategies to manage their child’s emotional disturbance and/or disruptive behavior within the context of their family life. Services are designed to be time-limited, intensive therapeutic work and require parent/guardian commitment to participation.

Information for Clients and Families

Goal

The primary goal of these services is to collaborate with children and families to develop the skills and resources necessary to appropriately and therapeutically respond to the child's identified treatment needs.

Philosophy

Sweetser is committed to providing treatment and support services to children and their families. Sweetser's Child and Family Behavioral Health Services are designed to treat, support, and maintain in order to improve the functioning of children, adolescents and their families consistent with the principles of recovery and resilience. As with the provision of all Sweetser services, they begin with a comprehensive assessment. The assessment identifies the child's and his/her family's strengths and needs.

Child and Family Behavioral Health Services operate from the belief that children and their families are best served when their strengths are identified and are used to develop their individualized treatment plan. Additionally, throughout this process of assessment, service planning and the monitoring of progress, families are encouraged to recognize, and utilize supports that occur within their natural network, fostering independence from formal service providers and empowering families to eliminate barriers to a broader, stronger support system.

It is our belief that collaborative practice is essential to helping families achieve their goals. When families are encouraged to articulate their own hopes and goals they are more committed to successfully achieving them. We also work closely and respectfully with others who support the family, encouraging this commitment to family centered practice, while increasing the child's and family's resiliency and recovery.

What Our Clients Are Saying

May 28, 2008 To whom it may concern: In my job as a Probation Officer, I have had the opportunity to work with the Sweetser group home in Plymouth and the Healthy Seeds Program. One of my probationers participated in this program during his stay last summer. This program was a very positive ...

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