What ECS Offers
ECS offers a range of educational and treatment options for our clients. For the school-aged client we recommend schools and programs that address each client's unique educational and therapeutic needs. For our adult clients we recommend programs that address treatment, independent living, career guidance, and/or education.
Options for School-aged children
These options include programs where each client's cognitive, emotional, social, and physical strengths and weaknesses will be addressed. Most of the time they require leaving home to learn new coping skills, develop new insights and let go of old behaviors. Our consultants go through a deliberate process to identify our client's needs, determine criteria for education and/or treatment, and then to develop a specific plan. Once this assessment process is complete, we are able to recommend a customized spectrum of services, both short- (approx. 4-12 weeks) and long-term (3-18 months). The options include:
Short-Term Programs
- Therapeutic Outdoor Programs: Outdoor, clinically oriented and experientially based short-term programs that focus on initial intervention and assessment.
- Assessment and Diagnostic Centers: Highly contained, short-term opportunities to focus on neuropsychological/psychiatric evaluation. A sizeable medical staff combined with a wide range of formal testing and 24/7 observation.
Long-Term Programs
- Therapeutic/Clinical Boarding Schools: Academically-oriented boarding schools with an integrated and balanced therapeutic and student life program.
- Schools for children with learning disabilities: Similar to therapeutic/clinical boarding schools but with less focus on traditional therapy and more emphasis on emotional stages of development in a group process.
- Residential Treatment Centers (RTC): Highly therapeutic facilities in which treatment goals are the primary focus and individualized treatment planning and intervention are emphasized. Fully integrated services are provided, including psychiatric, clinical, academic, residential and recreational.
Options for adults
These options focus on helping our over-18 year-old clients move forward with their lives while successfully coping with emotional, social, psychiatric, substance abuse, cognitive or behavioral issues. As with our school-aged clients, we utilize a deliberate process to develop a unique plan for each client. The range of options, both short- and long-term, available for these clients include:
- Therapeutic Outdoor Programs: Outdoor, clinically oriented and experientially based short-term programs that focus on initial intervention and assessment.
- Independent Living Programs for Young Adult Programs: Programs intended to provide various levels of support and structure for young adults with the goal of 'launching' them into healthy independence -- college, work, and so forth.
- Residential Treatment Programs (Psychiatric/Neurological): Highly therapeutic facilities in which treatment goals are the primary focus and individualized treatment planning and intervention are emphasized. Fully integrated services are provided, including psychiatric, clinical, academic, residential and recreational.
- Eating Disorder Programs: Specialty programs for those suffering from a primary diagnosis of anorexia, bulimia or binge eating. Increased medical and dietary oversight compared with more general programs
- Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs: Short-term programs specializing in the initial treatment of drug and alcohol addiction and co-occurring mental health issues.
- Extended Care and Sober Living Programs: Longer term programs specializing in continuing treatment of drug and alcohol addiction and co-occurring mental health issues.
Additional services
In order to provide our clients with a full spectrum of care, we offer several other services that can facilitate the process and help move our clients forward on their treatment and educational pathways.
- Psychological and Academic Assessments: A service where a professional travels to the client's home to conduct a comprehensive battery of tests.
- Interventions: A service in which a qualified/professional orchestrates, guides and mediates a family's effort to intervene on family member's behalf. Interventionists specialize in working with family members and friends of those with addiction or mental health issues to get the client to commit to go into treatment.
- Child transport/location: A service utilizing licensed, bonded professionals that specialize in the safe transport or location of youth and young adults struggling with behavioral, emotional and substance abuse problems.
- Concierge-level care (cost available upon request)
