Short-Term Teen Residential Treatment
75 – 90 Day Program
Crossroads Residential
Crossroads Residential short-term program fills a niche that has been missing in teenage residential treatment. Our unique recreation-based therapy model is key in building the relationships that foster change and growth in teenage boys who are struggling with addiction or mental health issues.
Our short-term care program offers a safe, home-like setting to help stabilize your teen during crisis, connect with him through recreational therapy, assess what is contributing to his challenges and behaviors, receive a range of treatments to address his recovery needs, and provide referrals for the appropriate level of care moving forward.
Recovery Roadmap
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Stabilization
There are times in a teen boy's life when situations seem to be out of control. When factors such as environmental circumstances, substance use, and mental illness have led to unsafe situations and feelings of hopelessness. This is often when parents need help outside of their home support system. These can be scary and gut-wrenching times.
Crossroads offers a home-like environment for your son that emphasizes stability as well as autonomy. Our short-term residential program is designed to create the maximum amount of safety and structure, without feeling like a hospital or institution.
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Connection
Our goal is to connect with your teenager through recreation-based therapy. This allows him to get out and get active, while still keeping him safe and facilitating the healing process.
He will have early-morning access to our huge indoor skatepark before it opens to the public, access to the Flowrider indoor surf pool, and exclusive access to SOAR gym, a 12-Step facility that residential students participate in 3 times a week.
The Wasatch Mountain Range is in our backyard, and together we explore the extensive trail network. We also have wakeboard boats to take the boys out on the lake each week once the lake warms up. And in the winter, we are able to do some skiing/snowboarding.
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Assessment
This short-term stabilization is an important time to gain a better understanding of what is affecting your teen and contributing to his challenges and unmanaged behaviors.
This assessment will involve a multi-dimensional approach including a mental health assessment, a medical evaluation, and a thorough examination of the family system and home environment. Medication consultations, psychological testing, and educational testing are also offered on an as-needed basis.
All our services are discussed with you and agreed upon in our Master Treatment Plan and in collaboration with treating professionals as well as the therapeutic teams.
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Therapy
Once stabilized and assessed, your teen will have access to cutting-edge treatments and work with a full-time therapist to address his mental health and substance abuse recovery needs. The short-term program also utilizes the Seven Challenges Substance Abuse program that helps teens work through their addiction issues and ambiguity towards change.
This primary therapist will provide individual, group, and family therapy. They will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide services across a continuum of care. This multidisciplinary team will include Crossroads' accredited teachers and tutors, to keep your teen from falling further behind in school, which is a common concern parents have about short-term residential programs.
Your son will also have a family case worker to help with treatment coordination and referral resources.
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Referral
After completing a Crossroads Residential short-term program, you and your son will have an in-depth evaluation of the challenges he is experiencing and strategies for moving forward.
We will help provide referrals for either transitioning home or to an appropriate level of care. This may include but is not limited to outpatient home therapy, IOP and PHP services, or a long-term therapeutic school program.
Our team will work closely with your referring professionals such as primary therapists, educational consultants, recovery coaches and programs, pastors or clergy, and family members.
Letter to Parents
Dear Parents,
We (Derek, Eric, and Sam) founded Crossroads Academy 17 years ago (2007). Having worked with hundreds and hundreds of adolescent boys during that time, we believe that we have a really good grasp on how to engage with teenagers. We have started Crossroads Residential as we believe we can fill a niche that has been missing in short-term residential treatment.
As you are reading this, you are probably at your wits’ end as you have been doing everything in your power to try to help your son get his life back on track. Unfortunately, all your loving efforts have not been sufficient to help him to make better decisions, to fight through his depression/anxiety, to go to school, to quit using substances, or to put away the electronics. Sadly, because there have been abusive treatment facilities that have traumatized many adolescents, the world seems to have turned against parents and good programs that are trying to help these youth. The media, past traumatized students, and even sometimes your friends and family, believe that you have not done your job as parents—that if you just loved them enough, your kids would eventually make better decisions. We believe that by the time you are reading this letter, you have loved your child, and have worked every angle to try to help your son to be safe and healthy. At this point, it is time to try the next step—which to us, is a very unselfish, loving action to give your son an opportunity to look at his life and where it is heading.
In our 17 years of doing residential work, we still always come back to what we believe is key in helping foster change, and that is relationships. One of the reasons we believe shorter term residential programs can struggle with building those relationships is that they are not able to get the students out of the container as they tend to do most of their therapy within the facility. To us, this makes doing the relationship work that much harder. We believe that physical activity is not only one of the best ways to help these young men with their mental health (getting neurotransmitters firing properly), but it is by far the best way to facilitate those relationships. Because of our many years of running Crossroads Academy, we have the perfect setup to allow our short-term residential students to be able to get out of their facility to do some awesome recreational therapy and activities in conjunction with the other forms of therapy they will participate in here.
Some of the recreational therapy opportunities we offer are as follows: we have our own 9000 SF building that houses our skate/snowboard shop with a huge indoor skatepark. Our students can skate each day before the park is open to the public. We have wakeboard boats to take the boys out on the lake each week once the lake warms up. We have access to an indoor surf pool called the Flowrider. Our boys will be able to do some skiing/snowboarding in the winter. The Wasatch mountain range is in our backyard, allowing us to go on awesome hikes or snowshoe adventures. We have exclusive access to a gym/12-Step facility that our students will participate in 3 times a week. Additionally, the boys can shoot some hoops out in front of the house. This is the niche that we believe Crossroads Residential fills—allowing students to get out while still keeping them safe and helping them heal.
For many of you, this might be your first experience with a placement outside the home. For others, your son may be home after already having done a short-term program or a wilderness experience, and they just need a couple of weeks for a tune-up. No matter what the situation is, Crossroads Residential is set up to help at this moment, and to figure out the next best step for your son after finishing with us.
Sincerely,
Derek Bowles, Eric Dahlin, and Sam Dahlin
Insurance Partner
We understand the importance of providing comprehensive support to our families, which is why we partnered with Bridgeway Billing to streamline the insurance billing process for our short-term treatment program. If you're considering treatment at Crossroads Residential Short-Term Care Program and would like to have your insurance benefits checked, please fill out this form.
Progam Approach
We've Created A Unique Environment that Emphasizes Autonomy and Purposeful Living
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Skatepark & Shop
Our Team
Our staff are trained to hold boundaries with the students while showing care and support. We do not believe in a punitive model to get short-term compliance and quick fixes. Lasting change, growth, and recovery occur when students are inspired through positive role modeling, challenging past behaviors, and gaining a sense of purposeful adventure living.
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Insurance Options
We understand the importance of providing comprehensive support to our families, which is why we partnered with Bridgeway Billing to streamline the insurance billing process for Crossroads Residential short-term treatment services.
If you're considering short-term treatment for your son and would like to have your insurance benefits checked, please fill out Birdgeway's Verification of Benefits Request Form.
If you would like to inquire with Bridgeway Billing regarding our long-term 9 month treatment program, you can do so by emailing [email protected].
