Services
CRCC provides a variety of in-home services including:
- Academic Tutoring
- Art Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Group Therapy
- Individual Therapy
- Intensive Clinical Mentoring (CBI)
- Organizational Coaching
- Respite
- Supervised Visitation
Academic Tutoring:
The CRCC academic tutoring and homework assistance approach is not focused on a pre-established curriculum or standard classroom environment. Our focus is offering expert, one-on-one assistance customized to the specific needs of your child. Our highly trained personnel will carefully appraise your child’s individual leaning style and develop a modified program identifying the skills that require extra attention.
In order to develop a personalized learning plan for your child, our staff will discuss concerns with you and your child as well as review all teacher referrals in detail. If needed, we will also visit the classrooms and/or meet with the teachers. Once in place, we will continually monitor your child’s progress and make any changes necessary.
Through this customized approach combined with individualized attention, children experience less adjustment time – making their sessions much more productive. With this optimal level of instruction, results are quickly realized. And with services available seven days a week – at your home or any approved location – it’s simple to find a time and place that fits into your family’s busy schedule.
Plus, you can also trust that your child is working with a professional who is dedicated to helping your child succeed. In fact, many of our tutors have hold master’s degrees, and possess highly specialized training in education, child development, counseling, and social work.
Art Therapy:
More information coming soon.
Family Therapy:
Family-Directed Structural Therapy (FDST) is an approach to family therapy built on traditional concepts of Structural Family Therapy, the Strengths Model, and Group Work Theory. FDST is a goal-oriented process that empowers the family through identification of strengths and the provision of concrete skills and is designed to be utilized by the family both inside and outside the clinical setting. The FDST approach facilitates the attainment of the goals of accentuating family strengths and decreasing family conflict in a time-limited manner.
Group Therapy:
The Capital Region Children’s Center offers group treatment to address a variety of areas children may struggle with, including: friendship and social skills, coping and anger management skills, hygiene and self-care, focus and concentration, as well as independent living and financial skills. Groups are tailored to meet the age and developmental level of the children involved.
Individual Therapy:
The CRCC approach to individual and family therapy involves components of Multi-Systematic Treatment (MST) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Therapy (CBT) is offered within a systems framework (MST). Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a relatively short-term focused psychotherapy for a wide range of psychological problems, including; depression, anxiety, anger, marital conflict, loneliness, panic, fears, eating disorders, substance abuse, alcohol abuse/dependence, and personality problems. The focus of therapy is on how one is thinking, behaving, and communicating today; rather than on unconscious or repressed experiences.
Specific strategies are used to further help the client alter their current pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving; so that, effective self-help skills are learned to address the difficulties the client is experiencing. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an action-oriented, practical, and rational approach that helps the client gain independence and effectiveness in dealing with real-life issues.
Intensive Clinical Mentoring (CBI):
Mentoring programs for at-risk youth are growing at a rapid pace across the United States. Youth mentoring programs differ in their curricula but, most emphasize the relationship between a disadvantaged or troubled youngster and a caring adult. The relationship generally involves spending quality time together and providing support and guidance, with the aim of helping the young person better negotiate life’s difficult decisions. Collaboration between the mentor and the child’s parents or caretakers is viewed as a critical variable in maximizing the positive impact that intensive mentoring can have on a child and their family.
Research indicates that the single most important factor that fosters resiliency in high-risk children is a caring and consistent relationship with an adult. CRCC provides each child in our intensive mentoring program with exactly such a relationship through a paid professional mentor who are typically master’s and doctoral level graduate students with flexible schedules. Each mentor is carefully screened and thoroughly assessed in an effort to determine the best possible fit for each child. CRCC reinforces the mentor’s work with on-going training and supervision by highly skilled mental health clinicians. With their diversity, education, passion, and commitment, CRCC mentors are the heart of our program.
Because the mentors spend time in each child’s home, neighborhood, and community, they provide continuity in often unstable environments and serve as a link between the different facets of a child’s life. Our other services, such as individual therapy and family therapy often supplement the work of our mentors. We design unique experiences for each of our children so they can explore and develop their diverse talents and interests; to help them develop enhanced coping skills via in-the-moment verbal processing of problematic decision-making; as well as offering learning opportunities for the development of social, academic and life skills. We nurture each child’s progress with an individualized plan based on his or her unique needs, abilities, gifts and strengths.
Organizational Coaching:
An organizational coach is designed to help children set realistic goals, accept limitations and acknowledge strengths, develop social skills, and create strategies that enable them to be more effective in managing their day-to-day lives.
An Organizational Coach is intended to:
* Help children to plan, prioritize and set academic goals
* Help children to become organized and learn time management
* Assist kids in developing and maintaining focus and concentration
* Provide structure, support and encouragement
* Maintain a safe space to work on social skills
* Facilitate the handling of Executive Functioning deficits and related Learning Disabilities.
Specifically, individuals tend to benefit most from coaching that emphasizes four basic areas: Structure, Skills, Support, and Strategies.
Respite:
Respite, temporary relief for caregivers and families, is a CRCC service that is designed to provide home-based care to children with social, emotional or learning disabilities. Respite can be provided to families on either a planned or emergency basis. This service allows families the time they need to renew their energies and continue caring for their children at home. The length of respite can range from a few hours of care up to three months of care depending on the needs of the family.
CRCC basic training for respite providers and mentors, at a minimum, covers the following areas:
* Overview of respite for children with serious emotional disturbances
* First Aid and CPR
* Overview of psychotropic medications and administration procedures
* Emergency medical procedures and emergency protocols
* Behavior management and strategies
* Crisis intervention
* Planning and providing quality activities for children
* Working with families
* Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards
* Liability issues
* Confidentiality
Supervised Visitation:
More information coming soon.