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DBH West Residential Care
This program provides housing and therapeutic treatment services for up to forty-one youth. DBH West is located on the west side of Detroit, and is Don Bosco Hall's first, oldest and longest running Residential program. This program specializes in caring for and supporting youth that require a more structured and healing environment due to emotional difficulties that stem from living in an environment that had problems with domestic violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse and/or neglect.
- Boys 12 to 18 years old
Admission Criteria:
Length of Placement:
- 8 to 12 months
- Psychological Assessment
- Psychiatric Testing (as needed)
- Individual Consultation
- Group and Family Counseling
- Parent Support Group
- Educational Assessment Planning and Tutoring
- Routine Medical and Dental Care
- Neurological Testing (as needed)
- Recreational Activities
- Computer and Manual Arts Training
- Substance Abuse Education and Prevention
Primary Services:
- Family Independence Agency
- Detroit-Wayne Mental Health Agency
Referrals are made by:
Call (313) 834-8677 for referrals and information
Sutton House
Sutton House is a low security, community-based open setting treatment program. Sutton House employs a multi-disciplined approach to residential treatment. The program specializes in caring for young men who are at the beginning stages of delinquency and misdemeanor conduct. The focus of this program is to provide immediate intervention to prevent further engagement with the juvenile justice system. All Treatment Specialists are aware of each individual resident's needs, and work cooperatively to meet them. Staff members are trained to assure care, welfare, safety and security are a priority. The focus of the program is to strengthen each young mans self management skills.
Admission Criteria:
- Boys 12 to 17 years old
- 06 to 09 months
Length of Placement:
- A Residential facility with a licensed bed capacity for 38 adolescent boys, 12-17 years old
Program Treatment:
Services Provided:
- Educational assessments and support services
- Crisis counseling
- Individual group and family counseling
- Medical, dental and optical services
- Recreational programming
- Psychological evaluations
- Psychiatric consultations as needed
*All maintenance services as mandated in the State of Michigan's Licensing Rules for Child Caring Institutions.
These services are offered in a milieu designed to provide structure and support in a less restrictive setting when home placement is not an option.
- Community Management Organizations
- Wayne County Juvenile Justice
Referrals are made by:
Call (313) 834-9922 for referrals and information
Depaul Youth Treatment Center
A medium-security mental health facility, the Center is managed by trained Don Bosco Hall staff. The Center will provide short and long term mental health treatment services.
Behavior Health Services Program:
- Will serve youth referred by the Wayne County Care Management Orgranizations
- 27 Boys, 12 to 17 years old
- Average length of stay will range from a minimum of 6 months, to a maximum of 9 months
- Specialized programming developed and implemented by core clinical mental health professionals
- Community resources are used for ancillary therapeutic activities
- Less restrictive than in-patient hospitalization, but more restrictive than outpatient treatment
- An appropriately secure environment for adolescents who require 24-hour treatment with intensive surveillance, and controls of a traditional hospital setting
- Emphasis on group therapy and life skills/prevention
- Academic instruction
- Individual and family therapy
- Nursing and psychiatric assessments
- Problems with drug use and abuse addressed through the collaborative relationship with the Ennis Center's substance abuse staff
- "least restrictive level of care" for youth diagnoses
Placement requires a minimum of 3 of the Severity of Illness Criteria for Residential Treatment:
- Conduct and oppositional disorders
- Borderline IQ
- Major Depression
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorders
- Personality disorders
- Bipolar disorders
Call (313) 267-0043 for referrals and information
Provides at-risk youth with consistent adult contact through bonding activities in career development, cultural development and community awareness, employment counseling, academic and employment assistance, etc.
Mentees are both young males and females 14-20 years.
We no longer work with
young children in this program.
What is a mentor?
A mentor is an adult who, along with parents, provides young people with support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement, and constructive example. Mentors are good listeners, people who care, people who want to help young people bring out strengths that are already there.
Why should I get involved?
- Because young people need positive, successful adult role models
- Because young people need guidance in setting and achieving goals
- Because a relationship works two ways. You stand to gain from the insights of a young person. Helping them succeed is a great source of satisfaction.
How much of my time will it take?
Time devoted to mentoring is a very important issue. You must realistically assess the time you have in a day, in a week, or in a month, to devote to mentoring this young person. Factor in the needs of the person asking you to be a mentor. You may find that you can meet one another's needs with no problem. You may also find that you can't. If you can't, we ask that you suggest someone else who might help. It doesn't have to be a lifetime commitment. Sometimes a little help can go a long way.
How should we get started?
- Ask the young person how you can help them
- Ask them how often they would like to meet and for how long
- If you do not know their parents or guardian already, be sure to introduce yourself to them
- Meet with the young person at a mutually convenient location. It may be where you work, at your place of worship, at a public park, in a restaurant or somewhere else that is safe and convenient
- Listen. Talk. Learn. Enjoy your new friend.
A mentor can help a young person:
- find a job
- prepare for college or other training
- explore career possibilities
- plan their wardrobe
- meet successful people
- make decisions and set goals
- keep motivated and focused on their goals
- with studies
- learn how to make money
- learn how to buy a car
- learn how to apply for school tuition assistance
- pursue sports interests
- learn how to fix a car
- deal with problems at home or at school
DBH's Mentor Program
To find out more about Don Bosco Hall's Mentor Program, contact Jacqueline E. Williams at 313.834.9922 or send an email HERE
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Independent and transitional living services are those services and activities designed to help older youth in foster care make the transition to independent living.
Supervised Independent Living Program (SIL), provides supportive services, and living maintenance to adolescent male youth. The purpose of SIL is to assist youth that have demonstrated the minimum requirements for living independently to progress toward their goal of independence. Youth can emancipate from SIL and receive services from the Youth In Transition program until the maximum eligibility age of 20 years old.
Placement is primarily designed for mature youth that are unable to live in a family living arrangement but may not be prepared for a less supervised independent living arrangement. These youth may be ready to progress to a less restrictive living arrangement than a group home or residential setting.
- A youth lives with an agency approved unlicensed adult who parent, functions in more of a mentoring capacity. The youth is expected to function more independently while still following the house rules. This type of placement may be ideal for the youth that has a permanency plan of independence and needs structure and supervision to achieve that goal.