Admissions

Admissions Criteria

IQ of 55 or above
Axis I psychiatric diagnosis
Ages 13 to 17
The child is unmanageable in a less restrictive environment and requires the structure of a secure residential treatment program.
The child has symptoms and/or behavioral manifestations of mental or emotional illness that significantly interfere with age-appropriate social, educational or family functioning.
The child must be medically stable.
The child has been screened and approved by the agency coordinating the placement.
The child is not actively suicidal, homicidal or psychotic.

Primary diagnosis of conduct disorder
Primary diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder
IQ below 55
child requires sex offender treatment
Severe aggression
Chronic self-harmful behavior resulting in more than two psychiatric hospitalizations within the year prior to admission
Principal medical diagnoses, rather than psychiatric, or present with medical complications outside the scope of care offered in a Treatment Center
Non-ambulatory
Unable to perform activities of daily living
Unable to communicate by any means
Does not have an Axis 1 psychiatric diagnosis
Demonstrates complete unwillingness to participate in the treatment program
Needs that cannot be safely managed in the current milieu with available resources in the judgment of the admitting psychiatrist in consultation with the admissions review board