Rising Ground’s Residential Treatment Center (RTC) provides 24-hour residential care to youth aged 12 to 21 who require intensive therapeutic and educational support and who may have long histories of placements in psychiatric hospitals and other mental-health facilities. We help youth cope with mental-health challenges, emotional difficulties, developmental disabilities, and challenging behaviors and/or the trauma caused by abuse and neglect. Residents learn effective problem solving, healthy coping skills, and adaptive behaviors. Self-esteem is enhanced, as is their ability to trust others and relate positively to the world.
Our program provides structure and support to youth who may have long histories of placements in psychiatric hospitals and other mental-health facilities. Recreational and therapeutic activities and clinical services to help each youth strengthen their ability to participate in the community and to return to a less restrictive environment as quickly as possible.
Youth live in cottages that provide a warm, supportive home in which to move their lives forward. We develop an individual treatment plan for each youth that includes a choice of personalized activities and after-school and weekend recreation. Each youth participates in individual and group therapy as well as in a behavior modification program to help them develop the tools they need to succeed.
All RTC participants will attend one of the three schools in the Greenburgh-North Castle Special Act School District: Kenneth Clark Academy, Greenburgh Academy, or REACH Academy. They will attend Monday-Friday on school days, plus a mandatory six-week summer session.
As a result of the supportive, individualized treatment they receive, many of our residents are successfully able to the return to their homes, graduate from high school, and go on to job skills training and employment. Youth with mental health challenges and developmental disabilities gain the skills needed to live as independently as possible and thrive.
