Treatment Features

Treatment Philosophy

• Reality Therapy model is supportive and conducive to allowing people to change behavior
• Involvement based on mutual trust & concern
• Focuses on present behavior
• Youth evaluate and plan responsible behavior

Individual Treatment Plans

• Addresses client's individual and specific needs
• Created by a multidisciplinary Core Treatment Team with the client
• Provides a plan of treatment for core issues of the client

Taking Effective Control

• Three progressive stages of treatment
• TEC I, involvement stage, orientates new residents to Chaddock
• TEC II, working stage, emphasizes implementation of an individual goal-oriented plan
• TEC III, demonstration stage, final stage focuses on enabling client to plan, maintain and continue development of skills and behaviors

Outdoor Experiential Education

• Safe, secure, supportive environment for students to meet emotional, physical, mental, individual and group challenges
• Caving, high-ropes course, backpacking, tenting, canoeing, group-building games, and environment impact activities form the challenges
• Adventure Treks - 3 to 4 days in length
• Expedition Treks - approximately 10 days in length

Spiritual Awareness

• Teaching the importance of spiritual development in clients' daily lives
• Weekly chapel services, student choir, campus youth fellowship and service learning projects
• Full-time chaplain on staff

Special Education School

• On-campus special education school
• BD, LD, EMH, or other health impaired
• Computers, art, shop offered in addition to math, English, science, history and P.E.

Community Service Learning

• Community Service Learning includes preparation, the actual project, and follow-up
• Delivering groceries to elderly, constructing a wheelchair ramp for a handicapped individual, nursing home visits, and other projects as need by the community
• Included in the Residential, Group Home, and Independent Living programming

Recreational Services

• Recreational programming designed to meet student needs
• Individual, Cooperative Learning, and Group Recreation
• Indoor swimming pool, softball diamond, soccer field, gymnasium facilities

Transitional Services

• PAL provides support and life skills training for youth, ages 16-21
• Enhances independent living skills
• Students participate in classes for finding and maintaining housing, money management, job preparation, etc.