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What to Know About Your Child's Stay

Accommodations and Items to Bring

We have ten individual bedrooms and two double occupancy bedrooms; each bedroom has its own bathroom. If your child engages in particularly aggressive behavior, we will do our best to ensure that they have an individual bedroom.

To make your child’s stay as comfortable as possible, we recommend bringing the following items:

  • At least three changes of everyday clothes: socks, underwear, pullover shirts, pants, sleepwear, and athletic shoes are recommended. Please do not bring any clothes with drawstrings; any drawstrings will be removed. We recommend elastic waistbands, pants without pockets, and sweatshirts without hoods. Belts are not permitted on the unit.

    • We provide laundry services to ensure your child has clean clothing.

    • Please leave any expensive clothing or shoes at home

  • Toiletries: toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, and hairbrush

    • We provide all of these items if you do not bring these from home, but know that many of those we treat are highly sensitive and prefer their own hygienic items.

    • Please note that bar soap is not permitted.

  • A favorite comforting blanket

      • We do not permit stuffed animals, toys, or personal pillows

Some items cannot be kept in your child’s room; whenever this is the case, we will keep these items in a secure personal cubby within the nurse’s station, and they will be available whenever your child needs them.

Please leave the following items at home:

  • Money

  • Cell phones

  • Handheld video games

  • MP3 players/iPods

  • Board games

  • Balls

  • Candy and gum

  • Soda

  • Outside food

  • Toys

  • Communicative devices

Schoolwork

When your child is staying on our inpatient unit, treatment is our biggest priority: each day is highly structured, and we want adolescents to be focused on participating in our therapeutic offerings. Time for schoolwork is not built in to the daily schedule; we provide back-to-school forms to help you work with your child’s school to excuse them for the days and the work missed. If you feel it is imperative they stay up-to-date on their schoolwork, please use visiting time for the completion of schoolwork.

Crisis Intervention

Any kind of violence, real or pretend, including verbal threats, is not accepted on the unit. We do not allow cursing, yelling, or inappropriate sexual behavior. In the event that any of these behaviors occurs, staff intervention may be necessary. Our staff are highly trained in verbal and physical de-escalation strategies, and will only use these tactics when absolutely necessary.