Italian Home for Children

Cranwood group Home (igh)- provides services to Children that cannot be safely managed in a community environment and require a higher level of supervision, behavior support and structure to develop self-regulation skills to reduce the frequency and intensity of the behaviors that place themselves and others at risk of harm. These services are provided to Children ages 4-12 years old in jamaica plain and at our cranwood campus in east freetown. The igh focuses on family-driven and youth guided services by providing individualized, trauma informed, strength based services designed to meet the unique needs of each youth and family. Each child participates in individual, family (when applicable), group and milieu therapy. All Children go to public school in the community. Treatment is coordinated by a primary clinician in conjunction with milieu staff, nursing staff, educational staff, and a child psychiatrist. An additional component of igh service is the follow along program which provides ongoing support and outreach services. These services may start prior to discharge tobetter ready the youth and family and continue after discharge from igh with the goal of promoting success and facilitating reintegration in to the community.

Jamaica plain intensive group Home (igh) provides services to Children that cannot be safely managed in a community environment and require a higher level of supervision, behavior support and structure to develop self-regulation skills to reduce the frequency and intensity of behaviors that place themselves and others at risk of harm. These services are provided to Children ages 4-12 years old in jamaica plain and at our cranwood campus in east freetown. The igh focuses on family-driven and youth guided services by providing individualized, trauma informed, strength based services designed to meet the unique needs of each youth and family. Each child participates in individual, family (when applicable), group and milieu therapy. All Children go to public school in the community.treatment is coordinated by a primary clinician in conjunction with milieu staff, nursing staff, educational staff, and a child psychiatrist. An additional component of igh services is the follow along program which provides ongoing support and outreach services. These services may start prior to discharge to better ready the youth and family and continue after discharge from igh with the goal of promoting success and facilitating reintegration into the community.

The mary savioli pallotta educational center at the Italian Home for Children is a department of elementary and secondary education approved k-8 program for Children ages 4-13 with special education needs including emotional/ behavioral difficulties, trauma, learning differences, language disorders, high functioning autism spectrum disorders and developmental delays. The school serves both day and residential Children who are at risk of failure in a less restrictive learning environment. The mary savioli pallotta educational center at the Italian Home for Children works to instill in the Children the value of education and the importance of academic achievement and motivation.

Therapeutic after-school, summer and vacation programs - the therapeutic after- school program serves Children and families facing social, emotional, and behavioral challenges , many of whom are returning from out-of-home placements , or are at risk for disrupting placements at school and/or Home and/or who need assistance in buildingtheir capacity to utlize community supports. The program provides highly structured activities for Children for whom traditional, less structured programs many not be appropriate. The program staff works closely with families, schools, and service providers to ensure that all needs are being met. Vacation camp is for 5-12 year old childrenwho are not able to be maintained at a traditional camp due to a variety of social/emotional behaviors that require a high staff ratio, small group and therapeutic interventions. This is a full day, 8 hour, camp during the summer and school vacations.

Cbat and tcu: community- based acute treatment (cbat) is provided to Children up to the age of 12 with serious behavioral health disorders who require a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week, staff-secure (unlocked) treatment setting. The primary function of a cbat is to provide short-term crisis stabilization, therapeutic intervention, and specialized programming in a staff - secure environment with a high degree of supervision and structure, with the goal of supporting the rapid and successful transition of the child back to the community. Children may be admitted to a cbat directly from the community or as a transition from inpatient services. Transitional care unit (tcu) is an adjunct service connected to cbat. Children can only be placed into tcu slots after a stay in our cbat and only in the circumstance when they have stabilized and are ready to be discharged but the state is still in the process of seeking an out of Home placement for them (foster care, group Home or residential treatement).

Community based health initiative - Italian Home for Children provides three of the services under Children's behavioral health initiative (cbhi ). These services are in-home therapy, in-home behavioral services and therapeutic mentoring. The services of cbhi are designed to assist the family unit in a collaborative model that works with the family to create positive changes. The services are designed to work together, using one overarching treatment plan, to create a clincal and holistic approach to increasing successful family relationships. Cbhi is paid for by masshealth and is available to youth (ages 3-21) and their families in boston, metro and southeast area .

Clinical services the organization is committed to providing comprehensive outpatient services to Children, adolescents and adults. These services include individual and group counseling, family counseling, psychopharmacology, evaluation and diagnostic assessment, advocacy and referral to community resources. The organization provides specialized services to women and Children involved in abusive situations, trauma services and critical incident stress management.

The partial hospitalization program (php) at Italian Home for Children is an intensive group-based and short-term treatment program for youth in need of a transitional level of care. This level of care can be used as a step-down from inpatient or cbat (community based acute treatment) placement, or as a stand-alone diversionary level of care to help the child remain in the community and avoid needing hospitalization.

Emergency residence is a new program for transient youth in between housing options.

Intensive treatment residence is a longer-term program that works with Children ages 4-13 who often have had multiple failed community placements or multiple hospitalizations/cbat admissions. The program accepts Children who have a range of diagnoses including but not limited to ptsd, adhd, asd, odd, depressive and mood disorders, and adjustments disorders. The goal of this program is to reunify the Children with identified family members as quickly as possible. All group Home clients are assigned a master's level clinician and provided intensive individual, group, and family therapy throughout the duration of their stay. We work very closely with families to identify tailored treatment needs and necessary natural supports.