Treatment Services
Treatment Services provides programs helping teens and children facing tremendous challenges.
The Klahre House Alternative School uses a combination of experiential and student-centered approaches to treatment and education in order to engage youth in their learning. Students enjoy class sizes of 5-8 students which allow their teachers to create hands-on individualized curricula that honor students’ personal diversity and encourage them to explore their own passions while learning.
Over the past three years the Klahre House School has worked to incorporate experiential education into both the classrooms and the program at large. During that time students have participated in a team building and challenge course curriculum, a community mosaic art project, a school wide experiential watershed education and restoration project and an equine therapy project.
In the classroom we work with students to explore decision making experientially through creating a collaborative governing council to facilitate student empowerment and ownership in the school as well as a Klahre House newspaper, Vox Juvenis, to give voice to student expression and concern.
As the school continues to move to an experiential model the education team hopes to eventually incorporate a school garden and other hands-on approaches to education.
At the Day Treatment Center, professional staff members provide a safe and caring therapeutic environment where young people begin to heal. We use a variety of approaches, including many evidence-based groups, in working with young people.
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The Community Attention Homes program helps youth at risk needing higher levels of care. The 90-day evaluation program includes comprehensive assessments, short-term mental health services and proctor home placement.
The Crisis Shelter takes in temporarily homeless youth who have not committed any crime on a 24-hour basis. Care is offered in specially trained homes in Hood River and Wasco counties.
When teenagers in foster care turn 18, they are released from the care of the state and must quickly learn to live on their own. The Independent Living Program helps youth in Wasco, Hood River, Sherman and Gilliam Counties through this transition. Starting as young as age 14, we help foster youth identify their needs and learn how to become independent adults.
Through the Therapeutic Foster Care program, local teenagers who have been adjudicated for sexual offenses are assessed and given intensive treatment lasting 6 months to 2 years. These teenagers are often placed in foster homes during their treatment. Those who complete treatment are far less likely to commit similar offenses again.
Larry James
Director
Treatment Services
P.O. Box 661
Hood River, OR 97031
(541) 386-5520 ext. 401