Program Services

Arlington House provides short-term emergency shelter care for youth 11 through 17 years old. Adolescents in our care are in crisis and need a safe and secure environment. The shelter’s therapeutic program encourages individuals to identify challenges in their lives and prepare for further placement. Each child is assigned two primary counselors responsible for helping work on goals, advocating for the youth and staying abreast of the child’s emotional and behavioral concerns. Therapeutic intervention is offered in three areas:

Counseling Services Counseling helps individuals deal with issues that include anger management and reduction, grief and loss and development of healthier coping skills. We also help reunify families by improving their communications in addition to developing family rules and appropriate boundaries to ease a successful transition back home.

Aggression Replacement Training (ART) Arlington House teaches programs designed to enhance social behavior of aggressive or acting-out adolescents using modeling, role play, performance feedback and transfer training to help kids decide what not to do in addition to what they should do and why.

In Touch Again brings together theory and practice, working with children and families who are affected by trauma, loss and other family disruptions.

Individualized programming for every child is provided:

• Medical assessment within 24 hours
• A highly standardized daily routine
• Positive reward level system
• Goal setting
• One-on-one counseling
• Participation in therapeutic groups
• Promotion of emotional and physical self care
• Year-round educational activities
• Encouragement and coordination of family visits