| Demographics
- Licensed by the State of Wisconsin
- Located in various counties and communities
- Capacity of three to four youth
- Utilization of a two-parent model (oftentimes both parents are at home)
- Highly structured, skills-based therapeutic environment
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Population Served
- Males or females, ages birth through 18 years
- Severely emotionally and behaviorally disturbed youth
- Specialized populations such as male adolescent sexual offenders
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Staff
- Two professional Specialized Group Care Parents
- Masters level Clinical Case Manager – 6 to 8 hours per week face to face contact in SGC home
- Masters level Therapist – 8-12 hours per week, in the SGC home
- Consulting Psychologist (out-patient, as needed)
- Consulting Psychiatrist (out-patient, as needed)
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Program Model Components
- Independent Living Skills
- Recreational Skills
- Level System/Point System
- Community Service
- Errors in Thinking (Ethan Allen School for Boys, Wales, WI)
- Life Skills Training
- Monthly treatment team meetings
- Educational Groups
- Sexuality
- A.O.D.A.
- Social Skills
- Anger Management
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Services
Provided by the Specialized Group Care parents (in addition to the standard foster parent responsibilities):
- Participate in treatment
- Have direct participation in monthly training meetings
- Promote Program Model
- Implement Life Skills training
- Provide increased level of supervision
- Act as professional caregivers
- Provide positive role modeling
- Participate in real time interventions
Provided by the Clinical Case Manager: - Monthly treatment team meetings for each youth
- 6 to 8 hours face to face contact per week in the SGC home
- Monthly written reports
- CAFAS* Assessments – Initial, Quarterly, and at Discharge (*Kay Hodges, PhD)
- Support and training to Specialized Group Care parents
- Biological parent contact/services as needed or at least once per month
- Liaison with school/community providers/referral agency
- Transition/Discharge planning
- Attendance at Administrative Reviews/court hearings/staffings
- Mental Health Services coordination/oversight
- Program/Treatment Plan – development, implementation and supervisory
accountability Provided by the in-home Therapist - Individual Therapy
- Group Therapy
- Biological Family Therapy
- Biological Family Contact/Interfacing
- Monthly Clinical team meetings
- Monthly written reports
- Interfacing/Collaboration with other Mental Health practitioners in the community
- Clinical and crisis consultation
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