We provide group and individual therapy, life skills training, opportunities for education and access to recreation.
Our goal is to successfully reintegrate troubled youth back into the community to reach their full potential.
The TRACC program provides comprehensive services to young people who, due to mental health, environmental, and life circumstance difficulties, have not achieved their full potential.
Our youth are often otherwise typical teens who are struggling with behaviors that limit their ability to function successfully in the community. These behaviors may be the result of mental health issues, past exposure to violence or abuse, lack of access to appropriate care or a combination of factors.
The initial role of the TRACC program is to reassess the needs of the youth and in conjunction with them, their guardians, family members, health providers, and in some cases youth probation and the solicitor general, we plan a course of treatment. Together, several skilled professional youth and child care counselors along with highly experienced senior staff encourage our young people to be actively involved in goal setting and planning as part of their treatment.
Gradual reintegration back into the community for every youth in TRACC is facilitated over 4 to 6 months. During that time various forms of interventions are introduced and when it appears that an individual is achieving most of their goals, the transition process begins. Graduates of TRACC acquire social, life and work skills that enhance their ability to experience success within the community...
The TRACC program is a 12 bed treatment program for adolescents. The director is a registered clinical psychologist who oversees treatment planning and integrity along with liaison with community health providers such as psychiatrists. Youth are typically referred from Calgary and Area Child and Family Services or through the Solicitor General of Alberta.
TRACC youth have often already had involvement with mental health, government children’s services, or youth justice systems where some form of intervention has been initiated.
After completed assessments to determine and understand individual needs, mental health, addictions issues, social skills and life skills, we make a concerted attempt to understand the youth’s relationship with their family of origin and extended family to work with these individuals along with co-guardians such as caseworkers.
Treatment includes day to day counseling with front line staff, group skills therapy using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), individual therapy with psychologist or community therapists, consultation with community psychiatrists as needed and access to addictions counseling. In addition youth are provided education opportunities in special supported programs such as at William Roper Hull School or at community schools when appropriate.
On a day to day basis our youth are assigned to work with a counselor who oversees their programming and daily needs and routines. In addition, each youth is assigned a key-worker who examines their long term goals, health and academic needs, and also monitors and reports on their progress.
Youth are provided a variety of recreation and leisure activities and are encouraged to participate in community outings as time allows. Involvement in all recreation requires a demonstrated ability of the youth to maintain appropriate behavior and this is a goal that has historically been achieved by the majority of our youth served.
Many of our youth also spend time away from the program on outings and home visits with family members typically on weekends, and visitation within the program is also available. Visitation in future placements (with family or in the community) are also provided and intensified as a youth nears his or her discharge date
Many of our youth are also guided through the process of accessing part time work in the community. Various life skills are also taught continuously and are intensified in the weeks prior to discharge. Further counseling and support is provided to youth along with their families and/or future placement providers by a senior staff member and a team of staff once the transition phase has begun.
Full transition back to the community may take 3 to 8 weeks depending on the individual and the nature of the new placement. During this period we work closely with guardians, caseworkers, health providers, youth workers and any other individuals closely connected with the youth so that the skills that they have acquired may be used successfully in the new placement. Continuous access to senior staff and community advocates addressing any concerns that might arise during their treatment and transition is also available.
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