Our process is a tested and proven method for initiating and sustaining change in teens, at home, and with the entire family.
Our approach is grounded in evidence-based best practices for creating wellness. We focus on giving your family daily engagement with new skills to build new habits that last a lifetime.
Because every family’s needs are different, we use a flexible and responsive process to identify a family’s needs, and to craft a custom-tailored program for each family. And we select the approaches and tools that will create immediate and effective change so your family can begin healing now.
Our programs focus on beginning with a strong foundation of safety and trust. From that solid start, we focus on building — layer by layer — the wellness factors that most effectively address your family’s needs.
Phase 1: Assessment & Crisis Management
We begin our work together with initial conversations to understand teen needs, challenges and opportunities, parent goals, and hopes for the family healing.
We work to ensure safety for every family member by assessing risk to begin minimizing high-risk behaviors. From Day One, we provide tools and techniques to support family members where they are to find stability and safety.
Frequently we find unknown issues and challenges arise in the initial stages of our process, as teens find a safe harbor for sharing what’s true and real. From this place of emerging trust and transparency, we respond to actual needs and real concerns.
Phase 2: Family Engagement & Planning
Working with your family’s therapist or our own clinicians, we tailor our support package specifically to your family. We craft a plan responding directly to clinical recommendations to support and amplify the impact of your family’s clinical team.
We provide the skill-building, interventions, and practice that your family’s therapists support and recommend, but don’t have time to practice with you. And our large network of outside service providers allows us to refer you to the right person if your needs are beyond our scope of care.
And as we begin our real work together, we teach you ways to engage that build trust, foster greater awareness of your patterns and choices, and begin to create change for your teen and your family.
Our young adult and parent mentors provide a safe place for sharing the burden of your teen’s and family’s journey, an experienced voice on navigating the healing path, a wise sounding board for decisions, and confident guidance on agreements your family can make to further your healing.
Phase 3: Skill-Building & Coaching
The heart of our program, our custom-developed, comprehensive skill-building curriculum presents the most effective tools for making personal change available. We’ve incorporated time-tested tools crafted from the leading practices in therapy, wellness, education, and other domains to ensure the tools we’re using with your family work.
Our clinicians and coaches tailor our curriculum specifically to your family’s needs, with responsive scaffolding of skills and positive reinforcements to reach those goals. Weekly assessment provides real-time assessment of how your child and family are doing, allowing us to respond in real time to those changes for even greater support.
Phase 4: Learning to Launch
As your family continues to heal, we help your teen put it all together by practicing the practical life launch skills that will allow them to succeed in their life goals.
Together, we prepare them for the next phase of their journey, whether high school, work, college, or beyond.
Early experimentation with new skills and experiences help your teen reclaim motivation, as well as build confidence, positive self-identity, and self-esteem. And practicing with safe choice making and safe failing allow teens to begin replicating successes to provide a strong foundation for growing independence.
We help your teen envision their next phase, create a plan to getting there, and then build the skills necessary to make the dream a reality.
