United Methodist Youth Home, Inc.

The Day Education Program is an intensive program for high-risk youth designed to provide a safe, highly structured, supervised environment in which to focus on education, cognitive restructuring, community service, independent living skills training, and family issues.

Target Population: Youth 14-19 years old, with other ages being accepted after review.

Students work at their own pace, using age-appropriate educational materials. Students work toward achieving their high school equivalency.
Each student receives a comprehensive mental health assessment upon intake.

Students attend a cognitive skills group each day, covering topics such as: self-acceptance, feelings, problem solving, decision making, healthy relationships and substance abuse.

Students attend group and individual meetings with the IL instructor to obtain vital documents, learn living skills, search for jobs, and explore higher education options.

The Truancy Intervention Program is an intensive home, school, and community intervention program for truant and high-risk youth. This program is used to prevent further truancy, improve academic progress, improve and increase parent engagement and increase community involvement.

This is a Home Based Service.

Target Population: All school age youth
Referred by DCS or Juvenile Probation

Program Assessment:

Identify reasons for youth’s truancy and barriers to regular school attendance
Identify solutions and interventions to ensure school attendance, increase the youth’s involvement in school and the community
Improve academic performance by interviewing the youth and parent assessing the family and child’s needs, strengths, weaknesses, and problem areas.
Develop a comprehensive Treatment Plan to address the family and youth’s needs

Intervention:

Provide face-to-face contact with the youth and/or family, implementing the treatment plan
Encourage family and community involvement
The Truancy Intervention Specialist will also serve as a mentor for the youth
Meet with other involved adults:
School counselor or social worker
Youth’s teachers
Probation officer or DCS family case manager
Provide individual therapy and/or family therapy as needed
All youth will be drug screened at intake and randomly throughout the time in the program, with results being passed on to Probation, DCS, and parents
Youth will earn incentives for participation and progress in program

Youth who have been enrolled in one of our programs (Residential Treatment, Day Education, and Truancy Intervention) and who have left those programs can always return and ask for assistance. The Independent Living staff are available to help youth who wish to have Aftercare services with things like finding safe & affordable housing, obtaining important documents, writing resumes, interviewing for jobs, etc.