Youth School Services

Limitless youth treatment program serves children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance by assisting them to achieve and maintain optimal functioning in the academic and community settings.  The Program works closely with School Administration, Educators, Parents, and other service providers to meet each student’s unique needs.  These school-based services assist in preventing the need for more restrictive levels and assists with addressing emotional and behavioral challenges of students and their families to promote healthy character development and successes in the academic and community settings.

Youth services are individualized to address the unique needs of youth and assist in providing opportunities in an educational setting to learn and use daily living skills and to enhance social and interpersonal skills such as problem-solving, empathy, anger management, community responsibility, impulse control and appropriate peer relations. Behavioral Counselors provide ongoing support to the student and educational staff in the classroom and school setting to promote optimal classroom learning experiences.
 

Services are a combination of individual and group interventions purposefully crafted to address the following areas:

• Pro-social skills  (e.g., replacing problematic behaviors with behaviors that are socially and culturally appropriate or developing interpersonal relationship skills necessary to function effectively with family, peer, teachers, or other people in the community);

• Anger management (e.g., identification of antecedents to anger, calming down, stopping and thinking before acting, handling criticism, avoiding and disengaging from explosive situations);  

• Conflict resolution;

• Communication skills;

• Assertiveness skills (e.g., resisting peer pressure, replacing aggressive behaviors with assertive behaviors, and expressing one's own opinion in a manner that is socially appropriate);

• Social skills and expanding the individual social support network, (e.g., selection of appropriate friends and healthy activities);

• Stress reduction techniques (e.g., progressive muscle relaxation, deep breathing exercises, guided imagery, and selected visualization);

• Skills to identify and utilize community resources and informal supports; and,

• Independent living skills (e.g., money management, accessing and using transportation, grocery shopping, maintaining housing, maintaining a job, and decision making).