Overview of Residential Services

Northeast's residential Children's Home is a five unit treatment center serving 68 at-risk males and females ages 11-18 who are referred through county Departments of Social Services based on PINS, JD, Abuse/Neglect, and Voluntary petitions filed through Family Court systems. Youth typically served are dealing with multiple issues including: family instability, emotional trauma, delinquency, mental health, truancy, running away, substance abuse, and various issues of risk that make it unsafe for them to remain in the home or in the community.

Clinical Services

Our evidence-based clinical services meet best practice standards.
* Weekly Individual Counseling
* Weekly Group Counseling
* Bi-weekly Family Counseling
* Comprehensive Assessment
* Juvenile Sex Offender Risk Assessments
* Juvenile Fire Setter Risk Assessments
* Psychiatric and Psychological Consultation and Assessment
* Treatment Planning/Permanency Planning
* Crisis Intervention
* Collateral Services with referring agencies and other providers
* Community/School Liaison

Educational Services

* All Children’s Home youth attend The School at Northeast, an alternative education program for students in grades 6-12.
* Self-contained special educational classrooms
* Departmentalized middle and high school curriculum
* Psycho-educational evaluations
* Committee on special education evaluations

Referrals

Our Children’s Home receives referrals from:
* County Departments of Social Services
* Departments of Probation
* Family Courts
* Drug Treatment Courts
* School District CSEs

Milieu Services

* A comprehensive behavior management system based on the Boys 
  Town Social Skills Program
* All staff are trained in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention.
* 24-hour, 7 day per week staff supervision
                                                           * Qualified nursing staff
                                                           * Therapeutic recreational activities
                                                           * Career development

Specialized Services

* Diagnostic evaluations
* The eight-bed Hard-To-Serve Program on our Mohawk Dorm provides intensified staffing for male youth who present with
  complex psychiatric and behavioral histories.
* A Sexually Aggressive Youth Program on our Pueblo Dorm
* Sexually Aggressive Youth Counseling Group
* Fire Safety Counseling Group
* Substance Abuse Counseling
 

Northeast Parent & Child Society
Residential Treatment Center
122 Park Avenue
Schenectady, New York 12304
518.346.2387
fax 518.346.0724

William Andrews, Clinical Director
Nancy Van Allen, Intake Coordinator