Residential Programs
On Campus
All of our Residential Treatment Settings create a safe, secure, 24-hour supervised setting to motivate and assist children in reuniting with their families and taking their place in a community setting. It is the goal of the Childrens Home to teach and empower children to become productive, contributing members of society.
Residential On-Campus
Residential Community
Residential Programs include:
- Adoption/Homefinding
- Ardsley Road Group Home
- Boys Group Home
- Children’s Home Non-Secure Detention
- Close to Home Foster Care
- Diagnostic Center
- Emergency Shelter
- Residential Treatment Center
- Supervised Independent Living Program, and
- Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Adoption Program
Ardsley Road Group Home:
Ardsley is a younger child group care facility located in the community that provides a safe, stable, and nurturing environment for boys and girls ages 7 to 13. The program may also provide care for sibling groups so that they can be placed together. Ardsley Road is a home like setting where professional staff helps children stabilize their behavior, and provides a safe and secure environment that fosters growth, learning, and healing.
Boys Group Home:
A group care facility located in the community that provides a safe, predictable and nurturing environment for males ages 13 to 21. Designed to help meet the needs of young men and their families in order to strengthen their life skills and prepare them for a productive and independent lifestyle. This program takes place in a home-like setting as young men learn the skills needed to integrate into the community and learn how to be successful members of society.
Diagnostic Center:
Our multi-service Diagnostic Center is designed to evaluate and help meet the needs of young people and their families to strengthen their individual and familial coping abilities and to allow their lives to move in a more productive and positive direction.It provides up to 90 days of comprehensive inpatient diagnostic testing and evaluations in a structured, therapeutic setting.
Emergency Shelter:
A state-licensed, Department of Social Services, community-based group care facility.
Provides confidential, around-the-clock care and supervision for children ages 4 to 15 who are in need of immediate placement.
Children participate in structured activities while living in a safe, nurturing and safe environment.
Non-Secure Detention:
This facility is licensed by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. It provides short-term care to six coed children who are awaiting further court proceedings or placement decisions by community or state agencies. The facility can also be utilized after normal business hours for placement of children who have been charged with a new crime or have a warrant for their arrest. It is available to all counties throughout New York State and is the only detention placement available to Family Court Judges in Broome County. Youth are provided with a positive and supportive environment in which they are taught how to build appropriate relationships, how to make better decisions, and live a happy and fulfilling life. Additional components of this program include Detention Foster Care Services and Community Detention Alternative Services.
Residential Treatment Center (RTC)
Provides safe and secure on campus 24 hour care for up to 48 children (ages 7 through 17) who cannot reside in the community. The program is designed to provide services and supervision where professional staff helps children feel safe, stabilize their behavior, and deal with stress and trauma. It is a place where children can learn to refocus and to build on their strengths and learn to cope in a better way with life stresses with the goal of reuniting with their families and reentering the community.
Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP):
This program is the final phase before complete independence from placement.
Young adults (ages 16 to 21) reside in community-based apartments and learn the skills necessary to become self sufficient, healthy, and achieve independence. Residents may remain in the program until age 21.
Mother-Baby SILP provides community-based services for young teenage mothers and their children in the same supported living environment as the SILP program.
Sunrise Center for Girls
The Center is an 8 bed intensive treatment and support unit for teenage girls from the juvenile justice system. Services are trauma focused and gender responsive.
- Serving girls ages 16 and 17
- Targeted 8 month stay, with additional four months aftercare
- Care includes: educational, recreational, vocational and workforce readiness services
- Ray of Light Mentors are volunteers who invest in a child’s future. Email vcollazo@chowc.org today to find out how you can be part of this program