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La-Sa Quik Residential Treatment

520 Ruah Street, P.O. Box 8
Blossburg, PA 16912-0008

Contact: Referral Coordinator
Weekdays: 1-800-808-LAUREL
or (570) 638-1210
After 5 p.m. and on weekends:
(570) 638-1201

General Information
Client Profile
Admission Policy
Professional Staff
Program
Partial Hospitalization Program
Education
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General Information
Length of Stay*: Six months to one year.
Population: Male/female
Capacity: 28 Beds (one 16-bed male unit and one 12-bed female unit)
Status: Dependent/Delinquent
Age: 12 to 18 Years
Client / Staff Ratio: Male Unit - 4 to 1; Female Unit - 3 to 1
Hours: 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
*Length of stay is, in part, dependent on each youth’s progress through the levels of the system.

Client Profile: Will consider, but not limited to, youths with presenting problems such as arson, assault, sexual assault, theft, incorrigibility, truancy, chronic running away, DSM-IV classified, etc.

Admission Policy: Residential Treatment referrals can be submitted to the Referral Coordinator via a telephone call to the office. All referrals are carefully reviewed by the program supervisor to ensure that youths are applicable to the program; therefore the child must be interviewed before placement.

Professional Staff: A team of staff professionals, including psychologists, educational specialists, and psychiatrists, work in concert with child care staff professionals to provide individual therapy, group counseling (and therapy where applicable), family counseling, educational counseling, recreational activites, and other treatment needs.

Program: Each residential treatment unit is highly structured. The treatment milieu revolves around basic child care practices such as:
• Routines and limits
• Feedback
• Team building
• Positive peer-guided interactions and treatment, utilizing principles from reality therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, positive discipline, CASSP, and Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ)

A treatment plan is developed for each youth in collaboration with the youth, their family, the referring agency, and the treatment team. The counseling staff involves the youth, the referring agency, and the family, in order to develop the treatment plan. This plan identifies the youth’s individual strengths, weaknesses, and needs, and provides measurable, time-limited goals to specifically address his or her history of problems. The treatment plan is reviewed and, if applicable, revised on a monthly basis. The plan functions as a road map through the level system, where more privileges and responsibilities are afforded the youth as progress is made toward higher levels.

Residential Treatment has a BARJ program in place, and youth receive training, education, and therapy in order to build competencies they will need for adulthood. These include developing anger management, problem solving skills, conflict resolution, healthy expression of feelings, and victim empathy training, among others.

Out Patient services are available to youth in need of more individual therapy services. In addition, out-patient provides psychiatric evaluation and monitoring of youth’s psychotropic prescription medications.

Education is provided in an alternative on-grounds classroom provided by the Southern Tioga School District and approved by the Department of Education. The curriculum meets all educational requirements and is implemented utilizing the most recent materials and technology. Youths may also have the opportunity for vocational and work experiences. Youths are mainstreamed on a part-time or full-time basis in the public school when they are academically and socially ready.

Contact: lys@laurelhs.org

Locations:

Blossburg Laurel Youth Services P.O. Box 8, Blossburg, PA 16912 570-638-1210 1-800-808-5287 Cogan Station La-Sa-Quik Residential Treatment 651 St. Michaels Road Cogan Station, PA (570) 998-9261 Greensburg 1011 Old Salem Road, Suite 208 Greensburg, PA (724) 838-7790 Williamsport 1965 Lycoming Creek Road Williamsport, PA (570) 326-0532 800-734-8291