Christian Community Placement Center

Our Mental Health Unit is dedicated to serving clients who find themselves in need of counseling and case management services. These services include one-on-one individual counseling and in-home and skills training support as needed. Connections365 services clients in Marion and Polk Counties.

Placements are determined on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the youth’s care team. The mentoring and skills trainer program supports youth and families referred by partnering community organizations or youth and proctors in other Connections365 programs. Mentors work one on one with youth to provide a positive relationship, skills training, respite service and crisis intervention. Currently we are providing these mentoring services for youth placed with DHS and some of our mental health outpatient clients as well.

This residential proctor model program accepts youth transitioning into the community from youth correctional facilities, other residential placements, or those needing placement with an increased level of supervision and support. This program is designed to help youth successfully transition back into the community, via either living independently or reunification with a family member. Services provided to all youth include: BRS documentation, individual, family and group counseling, educational support, vocational support, and skill building curriculum. Youth accepted into this program must meet BRS requirements and will require BRS authorization prior to placement.

The Continuum is a community based residential program serving young men in the custody of Oregon Youth Authority. The residential home provides a 24/7 staffed, secure, structured living environment. Placements are approximately one year in the program with intensive transition processes both into the program and from the program. Services include case management, individual, family and group counseling, educational and vocational support, and evidence-based skill building curriculum. Additional services are accessed through community providers.

Connections365 maintains treatment foster homes for DHS youth in need of shelter care, therapeutic foster care and therapeutic foster care with enhanced services. Connections365 uses a trauma informed model. The Shelter Program provides 30- to 90-day emergency shelter and evaluation for young people in crisis. The primary focus is to stabilize and evaluate the youth in a safe, structured, therapeutic environment until a decision can be made regarding future placement. Treatment Foster Care youth are placed with Connections365 on a six-month basis. These youth have often experienced numerous previous placement failures. The enhanced program provides extra wraparound services to support successful placement for these youth, such as specialized foster care, case management, respite foster care, and mentor and skills trainer services.