The Eckerd Youth Alternatives Community based services in Greensboro is designed to provide safe, and quality in-home services, in conjunction with transition and family reunification services. Greensboro’s community intervention counselors provide a positive learning environment for both youth and their families. While working to develop individual and family growth, community intervention counselors server as mentors actively helping parents to increase their knowledge of themselves and their children.
Their target population are high risk boys and girls, ages 13 to 17, and their families who are referred by North Carolina Department of Public Safety/ Division of Juvenile Justice as a dispositional alternative and reside in Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Guilford, Orange, Person, Randolph, and Rockingham counties.
Eckerd’s community-based services in Greensboro, North Carolina, are designed to address the emotional and behavioral needs of the youth and their families as a juvenile justice dispositional alternative. Youth are referred in the following situations: (1) to maintain youth in their communities as a dispositional alternative to residential placement; (2) to maintain youth in their community while they await residential placement; (3) to provide support and services to the family while the youth is receiving treatment in a residential placement; and (4) to provide transitional services for youth returning to their home communities from a residential placement. Part of Eckerd’s new community-based delivery system in North Carolina to rehabilitate youth and improve outcomes, these services are family-focused, highly-effective, cost-efficient and evidence-based. Individualized treatment plans include wrap-around services, evidence-based interventions, and family support through a network of community resources designed to strengthen the family unit and promote eventual self-sufficiency and last an average of six months. Staff is trained in evidence-based practices and includes a Community Intervention Manager, Licensed Clinical Specialist and four Community Intervention Counselors who maintain an average caseload of 12 youth.
Clinical Treatment Methodology
Our community based services are committed to providing quality care to all youth. The values that serve as a foundation for these services include treating youth with unconditional positive regard, acknowledging that families are partners in treatment, and holding ourselves accountable to superior outcomes. It is our belief that each youth deserves a second chance. With these foundational beliefs, it is necessary that community based staff be knowledgeable in a variety of treatment methodologies, considering the diverse needs, ages, and histories of children referred to us by North Carolina Department of Public Safety/ Division of Juvenile Justice. Our community base service prides itself on individualizing the treatment of care for every youth, understanding that not every youth is alike. We have found that evidence based practices provide the best outcomes for the families that we serve.
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It is our belief that through specific innovative solutions designed to meet the needs of the youth and families in which we serve that every youth will be successful at gaining a second chance. We also believe that a family is only as strong as its core. Our community intervention counselors are committed to helping families identify their strengths which are their foundations. Utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy, therapeutic crisis intervention, and motivational interviewing, counselors are giving families effective coping skills to build upon their foundation. By partnering with youth and their families Eckerd community based services- Greensboro is working to strengthen families not only today but for years to come.