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At New Haven, we base our treatment decisions on a simple question: What would I want for my daughter? We know that underneath her struggles - whether with an eating disorder, substance abuse, trauma, or another challenging emotional issue - your daughter is still there, waiting to be discovered, loved back to wholeness, and reunited with her family.
After fifteen years working together, our treatment team is one of the most experienced in the field of girls' adolescent treatment. We know from experience that girls struggling with complex emotional and behavioral issues* need access to a variety of proven therapies. Experience has also taught us that even the most clinically sophisticated approaches to treatment are only effective if those delivering them come from a place of connection, compassion, and hope.
Clinical excellence. The warmth and love of a home away from home. That's what we'd want for our daughters. So that's what we provide for yours.
And it works. Our outcome studies show that most of our graduates - even those who have not been successful in other placements - never need another treatment program after New Haven.
How We Do It
We believe in delivering clinically sophisticated therapies in a context of love and connection. We call this treatment approach the Family Worksİ model because we view the family as the most important system to engage in the healing of any one of its members. The Family Worksİ model is...
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 Family Focused
When you enroll your daughter at New Haven, your family becomes a part of ours. Even though many families are in great distress when they join us, research supports our view of families as the ultimate model of love, belonging, and healing. By embracing you and your daughter with the warmth and care of an extended family, New Haven can help you rediscover and tap your own family's power to heal.
New Haven has been an industry leader in family-based treatment for fifteen years, implementing a robust program of family therapy, family systems approaches, and family events. We know that no matter what the wounds, no matter what the difficulties, your daughter needs you and you need your daughter. New Haven brings families back together.
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| Values Based
Young women need a framework for positive decision making based on universal values such as compassion, service, creativity, and integrity. Without such a framework, navigating the storms of adolescence can seem impossible. Our Values Program creates an opportunity for you and your daughter to connect deeply with each other as you discover, clarify, and live your deepest values-the things that unite and give purpose to a family.
Our Values Program helps families create a framework for change that is personal, authentic, and internal. Unlike programs that attempt to control the change process externally, our Values Program leads to internally driven and, therefore, sustainable change. When you leave New Haven, you'll have a clearer sense of your family's direction and a powerful tool to keep you on course.
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| Multi-Systemic
Your daughter's world is comprised of numerous relationships-family members, teachers, friends, therapists, etc.-all of which are connected and each of which can either support or impede her healing. In clinical language, that means we're all part of a network of interdependent systems that must be coordinated for healing to occur; in simpler language, it means that we're all in this together.
Our application of multi-systemic clinical research allows us to provide one of the most robust treatment approaches available. A team member from every system-academic, therapeutic, student life, and medical-meets every week to discuss every girl in depth. We also regularly engage the most important set of relationships-your family-through weekly calls, weekly family therapy, and on-campus events.
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| Academics
School can provide a powerful context not only for academic learning, but for social development, improved self-esteem, and emotional growth. We view our education program, therefore, not only as preparation for college and/or work, but as an important part of a holistic treatment approach. Our teachers take part in weekly treatment team meetings so that academic goals are supported in the treatment environment and vice versa. The result is a truly integrated program in which learning is supported in all New Haven environments.
Because every girl possessed a unique constellation of academic strengths and weaknesses, our approach to academics is highly individualized. Some New Haven girls come to us having always enjoyed and performed well in school. For these girls, our program focuses on academic, social, and intellectual preparation for college. Our complete, college preparatory curriculum - including honors level courses - allows girls to build a strong transcript for college admission. We also challenge these girls to move beyond themselves to assist other students academically in a spirit of service and sharing.
Other New Haven girls arrive having struggled academically for years, perhaps due a learning disability, social issues, or the distraction of an emotional problem. For these girls, our academic team creates a challenging but manageable program of skill building, accommodations, self-advocacy training, organizational skills, study skills, and remediation if necessary. In this environment, many girls are surprised to discover a deep enjoyment of learning and are soon able to move from remediation to more intensive college preparation.
Accreditation
New Haven school is fully accredited by the North West Association of Schools and Colleges and the Utah State Office of Education; our teachers are credentialed by the Utah State Office of Education with core subject area specialties in math, history, English, and science.
Initial Student Assessment
As each student enters New Haven her academic ability, progress, and goals are evaluated. Our education team assesses student transcripts and identifies grade level and any deficient credits. We focus first on making up deficient credits to get our girls back on schedule for an on-time graduation whenever possible. Academic testing is done within the first month of admission and includes the WIAT-II, WISC IV, or the WIAS, and the WJ III (if needed).
New Haven's education goal is to get our students back to grade level - in terms of credits, skills, and content knowledge - so they can transition smoothly to another school setting or college.
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| Life at New Haven
Life at New Haven is never dull. We know that learning, growing, and healing don't have to happen inside four walls or even on campus. New Haven girls ride and take care of our horses, hike in the nearby Wasatch Mountains, go to movies, shop, volunteer, intern, swim in the New Haven pool, relax, and goof off. One thing we take seriously is teaching girls not to take themselves too seriously! Therapy and school are hard work, but it's also critical that our students learn how to play, relax, and connect in healthy ways. So New Haven girls have ample opportunities for rest and recreation.
On campus, our dorms are comfortable and homelike, with large, well-appointed rooms and common areas, full kitchens, and family style dining rooms. Each house has its own cook who prepares home-cooked, dietitian-approved meals for girls and staff members. The campus grounds include a large swimming pool, stables and riding corrals, walking paths, a climbing wall, a well equipped school, and stunning mountain views.
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| Program
Over the course of our many years serving adolescent girls and their families, New Haven's commitment to a highly relational approach to treatment has evolved into the Family Worksİ model. The Family Worksİ approach to treatment is based on our core therapeutic philosophy and is family focused, values based, and multi-systemic; these three foundational elements make for a clinically sophisticated program that puts relationship at the center of the healing process. The Family Worksİ approach requires that our team members operate in a manner that is highly accessible, well-coordinated, and deeply connected.
All of our departments, from dietary to treatment to academics, function as a single team to support your daughter's healing and growth.
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| Treatment
New Haven therapists and medical personnel apply the most current, clinically sound approaches to our treatment of adolescent girls, including DBT, CBT, family and multi-systemic therapies, motivational interviewing, and SMART Recovery. Our Family Worksİ approach to treatment, however, ensures that clinical treatment occurs in a deeply relational, nurturing context that accounts not only for each girl's diagnostic profile, but for her strengths, her dreams, and her family system, as well as her physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
Our Family Works© approach is based on years of experience and research, and a deep understanding of what girls need in order to live successful, connected, happy lives.
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| Girls Need ... FAMILY
Research confirms that the family is the ultimate place for nurturance, belonging, and healing. Girls need the support of their family to feel that deepest sense of home and love so critical for life success. Using a family-systems approach, we embrace each family in a program of nurturance, learning, and skill building; this approach brings healing not only to our students but to their families as well.
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| Girls Need ... VALUES
A clear sense of personal values and ethics allows a girl to chart and follow a course to a meaningful life destination. Our Family Worksİ Values Program functions like a GPS for life! It allows girls and their families to reflect on what they care most about and, based on those values, to choose where they want to go in life. It also provides the tools necessary to find their way, a turn at a time, to that destination. Families experience this process of values-based reflection, sharing, and skill building as a meaningful way of strengthening and deepening their family bonds.
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| Girls Need ... COMMUNITY
People are profoundly social creatures - especially adolescent girls! We know that every girl in our care is deeply sensitive to the social groups that she interacts with. In the parlance of multi-systemic therapy, these social groups are called systems. Our treatment team has a sophisticated understanding of how these systems must be engaged in order to create an optimal environment for each girl's healing, health, and success. We know that our own treatment team must function as a healthy system first if it is to provide guidance to other systems such as the student body, the larger school community, our parent community, and individual families. A program of regular professional development, rigorous communication, team building, and personal work provides our staff with a strong foundation for doing effective multi-systemic work.
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| CLINICAL PROFILE
New Haven Works With...
New Haven is known internationally for its effective treatment of a wide range of complex, often co-occurring, emotional and behavioral disorders, including:
. Depression or Dysthymia
. Oppositional-Defiant
. Bi-polar I or II
. Suicidal
. Substance Abuse
. Dual Diagnosis
. Post Traumatic Stress
. Addictions
. Anxiety Disorders
. Family Adjustment Difficulties
. Victims of Abuse and Neglect
. Eating Disorders
. Learning Disabilities/Non-verbal Learning Disabilities
. Personality Disorders (borderline, histrionic, narcissistic traits)
. Bereavement
. Low Self-Esteem
. Relationships Problems
. Manipulation
. Low Motivation
. Hopelessness
. Habitual Lying
. Peer Problems
. Adoption/Attachment Issues
. Identity issues
. Health issues: New Haven has the medical sophistication to provide safe treatment to girls suffering from health issues that would prevent their admission to most programs. These issues include diabetes (including with self-harming behavior), seizure disorder, celiac's disease, etc.
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| EXCLUSIONARY CRITERIA
New Haven Does Not Work With...
New Haven is designed to work with a wide range of complex emotional and behavioral issues, but we do not work with the following situations and diagnoses:
. Medical Instability
. History of Physical Violence
. Pregnancy
. Parental Non-Participation
. Non-English Speaking
. Severe Autism
. Low IQ (below 80)
. Anti-Social or Conduct Disorder
. Psychosis
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Accreditation
New Haven school is fully accredited by the North West Association of Schools and Colleges and the Utah State Office of Education; our teachers are credentialed by the Utah State Office of Education with core subject area specialties in math, history, English, and science.
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