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CRISIS RECEIVING
CENTERS
Therapeutic and Diagnostic Residential Services
SUMMARY
Crisis Receiving Centers are private 8-bed residential
facilities and schools for children accepting admissions
24 hours daily 365 days a year, for the provision of
Intensive/Crisis residential services to youth
ages twelve to seventeen years, who are experiencing
a behavioral crisis and may have a documented mental
health diagnosis. The CRC is a highly secure facility
located on a gated campus to ensure order within a highly
structured environment. We provide services to those
residents who have had unsuccessful community reintegration.
Based on the assessment of a mental health professional,
these children can be stabilized with intensive mental
health services within a therapeutic milieu. This service
will also be available to those children who are in
need of continued care in a highly structured and specialized
residential program, but for whom there is no other
residential bed immediately available.
The Intensive/Crisis residential services that will
be provided to children are:
- Diagnostic/evaluation services
- Crisis intervention services, including individual,
group andspecialized therapy
- Education services
- Case Management
From the time of admission, an individual plan of service
is developed for each resident, which includes the plan
for discharge and/or transition. Because CRC believes
that each youth's problems and care are unique, length
of placement varies according to individual needs. No
arbitrary minimum or maximum length of stay has been
established. Emphasis is placed upon individual development
within a group environment. However, the goal of
CRC is primarily to stabilize and gather as much information
regarding the youth (diagnostics) and transition the
client to either a more or lesser restrictive environment
as soon as he/she is ready.
EDUCATIONAL
COMPONENT
The CRC School provides an educational program within
a separate building on the grounds. The children participating
in our school program are often children who find it
extremely difficult to attend public school and have
struggled in traditional school settings. All children
that enter into treatment at this facility must attend
CRC Program School. The CRC School is fully certified
by the Virginia Department of Education (DOE). We utilize
approved curriculum materials and carry out the program
with all regulations of the DOE.
ADMISSION
REQUIREMENTS & PROCEDURE
All admissions to Crisis Receiving Center will be without
regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin,
or ancestry. Crisis Receiving Center may accept routine
referrals or on an emergency basis. Interested agencies
should contact Youth Empowerment Services at (804) 674-9375.
Clients can be admitted anytime during the 24-hour day.
Due to the nature of CRC as a crisis and diagnostic
facility, CRC may take admissions with minimal information
and a verbal placement agreement and/or authorization
for placement at admission. However, a written placement
agreement should be obtained within 24 hours of admission
or by the end of the next business day, whichever is
later.
CRC Admission Criteria:
- Clients may have had unsuccessful community integration
- Clients may have one or more documented mental
health diagnosis and/or has exhibited high-risk behaviors
(i.e., aggression, substance abuse, AWOL, suicidal
ideations (but no plan of harm) and/or homicidal ideations
(but no plan of harm)), or been in a situation requiring
intense therapeutic intervention and there is no other
bed available (i.e., CPS removal of child for abuse
or neglect).
- Clients will be between the ages of 12-17
- Clients will have an IQ 60 or above
- Clients must be ambulatory (walking)
- Clients must be medically stable (must be absent
of an acute or chronic medical condition that may
require continual medical attention)
CRC Exclusionary Criteria:
- Clients with a primary sexual offending diagnosis
and or related issues whom have not successfully completed
treatment and whom have been deemed a high risk for
re-offending. (CRC IS NOT A SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT
PROGRAM)
- Clients with a primary diagnosis of substance dependence
and or related issues who are actively addicted to
substances and may be experiencing acute symptoms
of withdrawal
- Clients who are actively suicidal and/or homicidal
and have a plan of harm toward self and/or others
- Clients with a history of fire-setting
- Clients regarded as severely mentally retarded
- Clients with highly contagious communicable diseases
(HIV, TB, Hepatitis)
- Clients who are actively psychotic
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