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Lending a "Helping Hand" to boys
Resident Characteristics:
- Boys ages 6 through 13
- Multiple failed foster home and/or institutional placements
- Coming from in-patient hospitalization
- Victims of physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse
- Exhibiting aggressive and self-defeating behavior
- Unsuccessful in traditional school settings; qualify for S-5 placement
- Unresponsive to outpatient, partial hospital or in-home treatment
History:
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home has been serving children and their families for nearly a century. Many youth have been helped toward a better future through the residential treatment services offered by the Home. Recognizing the changing needs of children being referred for care, the Home developed a staff secure treatment setting for boys ages 6 through 13 who demonstrate severe emotional and behavioral difficulties. TEMPLE HALL THERAPEUTIC CARE UNIT provides a higher level of staff supervision and more intensive counseling for boys who are not able to be managed in an "open environment". TEMPLE HALL THERAPEUTIC CARE UNIT offers a caring, long term treatment alternative for boys with special needs. While the length of time in care is determined by the boy's progress, the average placement will range from 9 to 12 months. When appropriate, boys may transfer into the Home's "open campus residential program. This will offer some boys continued services in a structured setting as an interim step to returning home.
 Services Provided:
TEMPLE HALL THERAPEUTIC CARE UNIT residents will be separate from the main campus.
- Individualized treatment plan for each boy
- Staff secure - intensive supervision by 24 hour awake staff
- Individual and group counseling
- Staff supervised by experienced professionals
- Individualized academic instruction
- Medical and dental care
- "Token Economy" system for positive behavior modification
- Parent conferences and family involvement
- Extensive follow-up aftercare from this agency
- Regular reports to parents/placing agencies
- Psychiatric and psychological consultation
- Recreation and activities
- Ability to transfer placement to open campus setting when appropriate
Goals:
- To provide a safe, caring environment where boys can be helped.
- To provide "primary" treatment services to stabilize the boys behavioral adjustment.
- To help boys grow toward improved self-esteem and to teach effective anger management techniques.
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