BRIGHTER TRANSITION PROGRAMS AND SERVICES:

• Educational Services
• • High School Programming
  • Credit Recovery
  • GED Preparation and Completion, when applicable
  • Special Education Services
• Group and Individual Based Therapy Services
  • The Seven Challenges
  • Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)
  • Individual/Family Counseling
  • Aggression Replacement Therapy (ART)
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Brainspotting (BSP)
• Daily Community Meeting
• Daily Life Skills Programming
  • Community Employment Preparation
  • Community Employment when Applicable
• Community Based Activities
  • Recreational Programming
  • Community Service Opportunities
  • Community Employment (when applicable)

FALLS ACADEMY PROGRAMS AND SERVICES:

• Educational Services
  • Junior High and High School Programming
  • Credit Recovery
  • GED Preparation and Completion, when applicable
  • Special Education Services
• Group and Individual Based Therapy Services
  • The Seven Challenges
  • Individual/Family Counseling
  • Aggression Replacement Therapy (ART)
  • Thinking for a Change (T4C)
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Brainspotting (BSP)
• Daily Community Meeting
• Daily Life Skills Programming
• Community Based Activities
  • Recreational Programming
  • Community Service Opportunities
  • Community Employment (when applicable)

TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE

Our treatment focus comes from a Trauma-Informed Care Model.  Both Brighter Transition Youth Treatment Center and Falls Academy have established and cultivated a culture that emphasizes care, safety, and respect and utilizes nonviolent trauma-informed practices to protect the physical, moral, social, and psychological safety of patients and staff. Our goal is to provide an environment that emphasizes patient safety, dignity and resiliency in which adolescents and families can recover from trauma and learn to manage mental health needs. This goal can be reached by each staff member, as well as each resident, treating each other with kindness and respect, maintaining a coercion and violence-free environment, and by practicing the principles of trauma-informed care. Brighter Transition YTC and Falls Academy work with each resident to form a “strength-based” approach.

In addition to its trauma-informed organizational philosophy, Brighter Transition and Falls Academy have partnered with Grafton Integrated Health Network to invest in Ukeru Systems (“Ukeru”), which is a restraint-free crisis management program designed to significantly decrease the potential safety risks associated with children who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis.  As more research on the impact of early childhood trauma continues to drive our understanding of the drivers of unsafe childhood behaviors, it is critical that our programs ensure that its patients feel safe and secure during the course of their treatment.

Unlike previous behavior management systems utilized in residential treatment settings, Ukeru encourages staff members to use shields and pads to safely support children in the event that verbal de-escalation techniques are unsuccessful in alleviating the crisis.  In Japanese, Ukeru literally means “to receive” and the technique allows staff members to support consumers through their crisis rather than damaging the relationship through more intensive restraint and seclusion techniques.