APPLEWOOD CENTERS INC

1. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES: COUNSELING For children up to age 21 and their families. Provided by licensed social workers, counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists. Includes individual, family and group therapy. PSYCHIATRY SERVICES Include psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and collaboration with primary care physicians regarding psychiatric medications. PARTIAL HOSPITALIZATION Provides intensive goal-focused group treatment for children in grades K-8, who have often experienced significant trauma. DAY TREATMENT Includes individual, family and group therapy for children in grades K-8 who require intensive behavioral health intervention, but are able to live at home or within the community. SCHOOL BASED SERVICES Include intervention with an individual student through classroom observation or therapy, and training seminars for teachers, students and parents. EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH For children birth to 3 who are experiencing social, emotional or behavioral difficulties. Provides solutions to parent-child relationship difficulties. SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD CARE CONSULTATION For child care providers, parents and caregivers in Cuyahoga County. Special training in working with children with special needs helps to decrease suspension or expulsion from day care. COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC SUPPORTIVE TREATMENT (CPST) A number of CPST teams provide services for children and youth: with emotional and behavioral disturbance; who have been witnesses of violence; who are reunifying with their families and/or are in conflict with their parents. MULTISYSTEMIC THERAPY (MST) Provides therapeutic and case management services for youth with serious behavioral problems and at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system. 2. THE ELEANOR GERSON SCHOOL: Offers an alternative high school experience for boys and girls who have not been successful in standard educational settings. School personnel, mental health professionals, social workers and parents refer students. The school emphasizes education within a personal and therapeutic environment. 3. OUT-OF-HOME CARE SERVICES: RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT For children in grades K-8 with severe emotional and behavioral difficulties, who are unable to live safely in the community. DUAL DIAGNOSIS RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT For young men ages 14 to 18 with behavioral health and chemical dependency issues. ADOPTION & FOSTER CARE Homes are needed to care for sibling groups, teens and children with special needs. Parents are provided with on-going training and support and a social worker is available to families 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.

Implemented several performance improvement initiatives, including those around: concurrent documentation, effective outpatient caseload management, and monitoring medication side effects.