About
Safehaus services
- On site nursing: One hour per child per day with 24-hour availability
- Psychiatric initial and follow-up: Psychiatrists or nurse practitioner will see child within the specified contract time limit and make recommendations for medications.
- Full pharmacy serviceswith 14-day medications upon discharge
- 3 to 1 patient to direct staff ratio.If acuity is high then we provide 2 to 1 ratio
- Trauma/Substance Abuse services offered.
- Full time on site adolescent child psychologist:Dr. Kolodchin oversees all clinical development at Safehaus.
- Daily individual therapy:each child is seen daily to meet its psychiatric needs.
- Daily Group therapy: Each child participates in two daily group therapy sessions on topics such as anger management, depression, and teen suicide coping strategies.
- Daily didactic small group sessions: Each morning children participate in didactic exercises aimed at their particular malady.
- One on One mentor program.Each day children spend time alone with a staff member to give them additional time to express their feelings, wants, and or concerns.
- Family therapy:During the course of their stay at Safehaus children have a minimum of one family session. Many times multiple sessions are held to help develop better understanding between the child and their family.
- Academic program.During the course of the day the children are encouraged to do schoolwork, and parents are mandated to bring work from their teachers to Safehaus.
- Psychological testing: Children who require special attention and have a need to be tested can request that Safehaus provide an array of intelligence or personality tests to meet their needs.
- Transportationfor those family members, who require it, is provided by Safehaus at no additional cost to the consumer.