Program areas at Marillac Center
Marillac's psychiatric residential treatment facility (prtf) provides non-acute, inpatient care to children from ages 12 to 18 who are challenged with mental and behavioral health issues. This can involve an emotional or behavioral problem, and/or substance use disorder that requires 24-hour supervision and specialized interventions. This program serves those who have not responded to community-based or short-term hospitalization.clients admitted to Marillac's prtf typically have a long history of complex issues that benefit from our trauma-informed treatment approach. In 2016, 115 prtf clients were admitted. 35% had a history of being physically abused, and 37% had been sexually abused. 75% had a history of suicide attempts, and 82% had been physically aggressive toward others. By discharge, after an average stay of 66 days, 57% had achieved demonstrated significant improvement in problem severity, and 50% experienced clinically significant improvement in functioning.
Marillac east therapeutic day school (in blue springs, Missouri) serves students from kindergarten through twelfth grades. The students served have emotional, behavioral and educational problems that have prevented them from being successful in the public school setting. The education program operates an educational program to serve the children and adolescents served by the prtf.
Space and support services for psychiatric hospitalmarillac provides space and support services to the university of Kansas hospital system (ukhs), which operates a psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents on the Marillac campus. Under the agreement with ukhs, Marillac provides space, maintenance and custodial services, expressive therapy services, cafeteria services, and various other support services to enhance ukhs's operation of the psychiatric hospital program. Marillac and its related organization, cornerstones of care, also offer to ukhs various administrative and leadership support not reflected in the direct expense figures noted on this schedule.
Marillac provides office-based psychiatry and therapy services on an outpatient basis to children and families in the community. These services may be provided on a stand-alone basis or for continuity of care in follow up to other services provided by Marillac.