The mission of the program is to provide professional therapeutic services to children and families in both traditional and non-traditional environments through a community based collaborative process.
Capital Area Partial Program (CAPP) is a mental health treatment modality, which includes psychiatric, psychological, social and vocational elements under medical supervision. It is designed to benefit children and adolescents with moderate to severe mental or emotional disorders and autism. Clients are admitted to the program via an interagency process.
The program:
- Provides a solution focused model of treatment to empower children and adolescents to be change agents
- Uses a systems approach
- Encourages interagency linkage to mental health services
- Provides a continuum of treatment modalities
- Incorporates appropriate educational services for all children and adolescents enrolled in the program
- Maintains a site in an elementary, a middle and a high school building
- Offers a team of professionals: treatment specialist, teacher, mental health worker, and educational para-professional to work with the clients.
Program Features:
- Individual and group counseling
- Family support
- Medication management
- Psychiatric and psychological services
- Stabilization intervention
- Core academic instruction
- 24 hour on call support
- Social skills training
- Adventure-based activities
- Staff training
- Safe crisis management
- Team placement/consultation for school districts
- Continuity of care planning
Capital Area Partial Program for Autism Program Profile