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LIGHTHOUSE

Psychiatric Residential

Treatment Facility (PRTF)

- Passages PRTF- Lighthouse PRTF

Program Description

Lighthouse is a secured Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility located in Brynn Marr Hospital.  This specialized program provides therapeutic services to children and adolescents with mental retardation (or other developmental disabilities) and co-occurring mental illness (DDMI).  Lighthouse treats both boys and girls ages 10 though 17.  Our residents’ unique developmental needs are addressed by placing emphasis on increased socialization, communication, social relationship building, and appropriate self-expression skills utilizing a strength-based approach.

 

Program Components

At Lighthouse, we use a structured milieu to assist and provide support to our residents in achieving their determined treatment goals.  We have realized success with our DDMI residents through programming that offers a strength-based approach along with frequent and/or immediate reinforcement.  Our staff has been specially trained to facilitate the following unique programs, along with specialized training in working with the DDMI population.

 

-----Actively Involved in Making it to Zero (AIMZ) Store:  Incentive program for residents who have made efforts to manage thoughts and/or impulses of self harm or harm to others.

-----Beautiful You:  A program designed for improving self-esteem, personal health and hygiene.

-----Fat Albert:  A character building program with video and group discussion.

-----All About me:  Lifebooks created by the residents to share information about themselves.

-----Polar Bear:  A voluntary morning health and fitness activity.

-----3-5-7:  A team approach to incentive based behavior modification, where residents receive a group reward for every 3, 5 and 7 days without physical/verbal aggression.

-----CARES Closet:  An incentive based behavior modification program occurring 3 times a week.

-----LOVE and CARES:  An incentive based levels system specifically designed for the DDMI residents.

Levels of Care –   Our holistic approach to treatment

Observation – Constant and continuous observation in order to modify and develop best practices.

Validation – Scoring of progress on an individual basis

Evaluation and Assessment –   With 24 hour Registered Nursing care our mental health staff is clinically trained to assess and facilitate our residents’ needs

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-----The Village Academy:  This five day a week academic curriculum is certified by the Department of Non-public Instruction.  Grades accumulated while at Brynn Marr are transferable.  IEP’s are followed.

-----Adjunctive Therapy:  Challenging team based activities to encourage social skills and critical thinking, including art therapy, music therapy, recreational therapy and adventure based counseling (low-elements ROPES course).

-----Individual & Family Therapy:  Guided by a Masters prepared therapist to focus on specific treatment related issues.  We encourage our residents to develop their own “person centered plan” with the assistance of a treatment team.

-----Group Treatment:  Whether it be Self Esteem Groups, or Anger Management Groups the ARISE Life Management and the Gender Specific “Ladybug” Group Program are our unique answers to effective group treatment.

-----Voluntary (non-denominational) spiritual service offered.

-----Therapeutic trial visits with family, increasing as discharge approaches.

-----Post-discharge communication with Mental Health Center or referring professional.

 

Admission Criteria

---Boys and Girls ages 10 through 17

---A DSM-IV diagnosis indicating the presence of a mental, emotional or behavioral impairment that is moderate to severe in nature as well as a diagnosis of mental retardation or other significant developmental disability.

---Evidence of long-standing disturbances in daily functioning that cannot be attributed to the developmental disability alone.

---Resident is medically stable

---There is reasonable expectation that treatment will improve behaviors

 

In the event of a crisis situation, brief inpatient evaluation and stabilization will be made available in Brynn Marr Hospital’s Acute unit.

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