Our Programs and Services

  •  Accept Referrals Made by DCS or Probation

  • Immediate placement for boys and girls ages 6-19 years, 24 hours per day

  • Crisis Stabilization

  • Initial Assessment/Diagnoisis

  • 24-hour Awake Staff

  • For more information on the Emergency Care Program Please Contact Yvonne Duff,  Rick Steigerwalt, or Ashley Reynolds by clicking on their names for email, or by calling our main office.

  • Treatment option for boys and girls ages 6-19 years
  • Referral by DCS or Probation
  • Highly structured, individualized therapeutic program
  • Group Counseling
  • Individual and Family Counseling
  • Emphasis placed on personal responsibility, honesty, education, and developing a hard work ethic
  • 24-hour awake staff
  • For more information on the Residential Care Program Please Contact Yvonne Duff,  Rick Steigerwalt, or Ashley Reynolds by clicking on their names for email, or by calling our main office.

 

 

  • A residential option for young men and women ages 15-19 years
  • Referral by DCS or Probation
  • Independent environment includes realistic approach to preparing for life on own
  • Nutrition, food preparation, paying bills, budgeting are all a part of the experience
  • Individualized program, assists client in maintaining treatment plan
  • Employment and/or continued education required.
  • For more information on the Independent Living Program Please Contact Yvonne Duff  by clicking on her name for email, or by calling our main office.

  • A voluntary home-visiting program offered to new and expectant families in Blackford, Jay, and Randolph Counties
  • Utilizes a network of community resources to ensure families have access to pre and post-natal services, and the additional support needed for child's healthy start
  • Supportive, nurturing, and informative
  • Families may choose to participate from prenatal until child is 5 years old
  • Our staff exceed Healthy Family requirements of receiving their high school diploma, all of our Healthy Families staff members have attained their Bachelor's Degree.
  • For more information on the Healthy Families Program Please Contact Sharon Ross or Marsi Dow clicking on their names for email, or by calling our main office.

  • KARSS is short for Keeping At-Risk Students In School
  • Designed to keep suspended and expelled students in school
  • Reduces the dropout rate for at-risk students
  • Community service to increase community connection
  • Study assistance and tutoring to improve school performance
  • Mentoring and role modeling
  • Individualized with one on one adult connections
  • For more information on the KARSS Program Please Contact P.J. Corwin by clicking on his name for email, or by calling our main office.

  • Voluntary Program
  • Free of Charge
  • Focuses on empowering families
  • Providing families options and choices available in their own communities
  • In-home visitation, assistance in connection with services and youth programs, as wells as access to trained staff who provides the family support and feedback
  • For more information on the Community Partners Program Please Contact Kelli Roessner or Nikki Brinkerhoff by clicking on their names for email, or by calling our main office.

Program is partnered with:

A group of multidimensional options for counties interested in offering family and home-based services.  These wide-range of services are designed to meet the varying needs of families, and comply with state and federal services guidelines.

Services provided by Home Based and Family Services include:

  • Homemaker/Parent Aid
  • Home-based Casework & Therapy
  • Intensive Home-based
  • Chafee Independent Living
  • Foster Home Studies
  • Supervised Visitation
  • Counseling/Diagnostics/Assessment Services
  • Sex Offender Treatment
  • For more information on the Home Based and Family Services Program Please Contact Blake Hudson by clicking on his name for email, or by calling our main office.

Each of these services provides family and individual assistance in specific areas of need identified by the family with the support of trained and professional service providers.

  • Funded by CAPE through the Lilly Foundation
  • Targets families with young children age 3 months to 5 years who are not currently enrolled in a home visitation program
  • Hispanic families may benefit from the Parents as Teachers bilingual curriculum
  • Home visitation
  • Utilizes a network of community resources to ensure families have access to pre and post-natal services, and the additional support needed for a child's healthy start.
  • Supportive, nurturing, and informative
  • Families may choose to participate from prenatal until child is 5 years old
  • For more information on the Born to Learn Program Please Contact Rachel Mohlman by clicking on her name for email, or by calling our main office.

                        

  • A classroom experience for the divorcing parent>
  • Assists parents in minimizing the impact of the divorce process on their children
  • Covers the common pitfalls of parents in divorce
  • Effective in preventing children from being "caught in the middle" of divorce

If you have been ordered to participate in the Children in the Middle program and would like more information please click on the "More Information" button below to see what will be expected in the classes.  Please contact our office by phone or in person to sign up for the classes.


  • Base is sort for Behavioral Academic and Social Education
  • School hosted program designed to target at-risk students
  • Behavior modification with educational emphasis
  • Includes individualized counseling and mentoring
  • Family component available
  • For more information on the BASE Program Please Contact Chris Dubach  or April Knasinski by clicking on their names for email, or by calling our main office.