Program areas at La Cheim School
Community mental health center:behavioral health services and the fred paroutaud fund for the future programs provides clinical services, education and training focused on suicide-related issues. The programs include therapeutic interventions for at-risk individuals, bereavement after suicide, individual and group therapies and other interventions and services with the effective goal of reducing the trauma and tragedies of suicide.
Residential therapeutic program:la Cheim's short-term residential therapeutic program (strtp), browning house, provides a safe, nurturing, and trauma-informed environment for emotionally challenged, male-identified youth ages 12-18 whose circumstances do not permit them to live with their families or guardians.
Therapeutic behavioral services (tbs):tbs services are provided to children with severe, maladaptive behavioral challenges, frequently accompanied by mental health disorders. To qualify for services, these children must be in danger of being placed in a higher level of residential care such as foster homes, short term residential treatment programs, psychiatric hospitalization, or the juvenile hall as a result of their behavior. Being able to provide tbs services is especially important for the contra costa county children who are students in La Cheim's el sobrante School. La Cheim's School program allows La Cheim to work with the students special educational and medical/mental health service needs. Having tbs in-house allows for La Cheim School to also provide behavioral services. Much like a three-legged stool, being able to control the critical areas of treatment services, makes for a much sturdier treatment platform.
Nonpublic school:the nonpublic academic School provides educational and vocational services for children in the middle thru high School in one School. The School has been certified by the ca dept of education and a licensed mental health clinic which serves the emotional needs of the students.