Services

Respect, responsibility and self-esteem become watchwords for living, as adolescents practice newly acquired skills, develop confidence and rewarding behaviors. Throughout our wide range of program components and intensive treatment services, the individual stands out. It is this commitment that sets Heartland apart.

Residential Treatment
Allows adolescent males and females, ages 12-18, an extended period of psychiatric treatment. This opportunity is helpful to the adolescent who may be experiencing severe behavioral, chronic and often chaotic family, social and educational disturbances.

Acute Hospitalization
Offers comprehensive psychiatric treatment for ages 3-17. Our short-term intervention program helps the troubled child or teen make sense of confusing feelings, and come to terms with himself or herself as a healthy, independent individual having the skills to sustain positive relationships, both with family and friends.

Diagnosis Treated

• Behavior and Impulse Disorders
• Gender Specific Issues and Needs
• Cognitively Challenged Adolescents
• Developmentally Impaired Adolescents
• Sexual Offender Treatment - Males 12-18

Admissions Criteria

• Threatening to, or behaving in a manner considered
  dangerous to self or others.
• Continued destruction of property.
• Acute exacerbation of symptoms suggesting an organic
  dysfunction or presenting organic symptoms secondary to
  psychological or emotional factors.
• Unable to function socially, educationally or in the
  family environment.
• Pre-existing psychiatric conditions that demonstrate
  deterioration clinically with exhibition of the above criteria.
• No significant progress with outpatient treatment and patient
  requires medication evaluation, special services or
  continuous skilled observation.