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The Harpst campus residential treatment center is designed to serve children or adolescents who have emotional and/or behavioral problems that do not require intensive hospitalization but which are too severe to permit a non-secure living environment and which require specialized psychiatric and psychological evaluation, assessment and intervention. Typical behaviors characteristic of children needing residential treatment are aggressive behavior (destruction of property and fighting with others), frequent running away, severe depression, self-injurious behavior, violent outbursts, severe panic attacks, severe school phobia, and other behaviors serious enough to preclude continued functioning in a family, at school, or in the community.
The Harpst campus residential treatment center does not serve children who are considered medically fragile, are active sexual predators, are actively suicidal or homicidal, have moderate to severe mental retardation, or whose needs exceed the resources of the organization.
The Harpst campus Specialized foster care program serves children who have completed treatment and are now ready to live with a family. This means that the severe nature of those behaviors described in the paragraphs above has abated and the child can live with a family IF the parents of that family have been adequately trained to support and continue the gains made by the child in treatment.
The Murphy group home is designed to serve children who have completed treatment and have now achieved a “Level 4” category, a rating used by Georgia’s DFCS and DJJ caseworkers to designate that the need for structured living is still present but not so structured as to strictly limit the child’s ability to live in a family-type environment or to be actively involved in the community. They may still have some behavior difficulties (quick temper, verbal lashing-out, somewhat depressed, difficulty going to school, anxiety) but these behaviors are not as debilitating as they were prior to treatment. On October 1, 2008, the funding for this program was severely cut so, until other funds can be secured, this program was temporarily closed on that date.
The Community Services Clinic serves children and youth and their families in an array of in-clinic and community-based programs. A full range of Medicaid and Managed Care funded services are available here to at-risk area families. Types of services available include individual, family and group therapies; psychiatric and medication evaluation; in-clinic nursing assessment; home based services; substance abuse intervention; parent training; and a number of various group therapies. Community Services Treatment can take place in the home, in the office, or in any other community setting and is designed for families who need help keeping their children or teenagers at home. These services can also be accessed by DFCS caseworkers, juvenile probation officers, mental health workers and any other referral source with responsibility for the functioning of a child or teen.
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