Beech Brook offers the most comprehensive Residential Treatment and Day Treatment programs in Cleveland for children and teens with severe mental health issues, including:
- ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Although our staff strives to provide children and families with the right services early on to keep families together whenever possible, many children are so emotionally damaged that they require out-of-home care. Often, they have experienced unimaginable abuse and neglect, multiple placements or other trauma that has left them with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. Beech Brook’s range of campus-based treatment allows children to move seamlessly from one program to another, enabling them to get the appropriate level of care at the right time, while maintaining therapeutic relationships and coordinated case management.
Residential Treatment
Beech Brook’s Residential Treatment program provides a 24-hour therapeutic environment for children and teens, including those involved with the Juvenile Justice system, who are experiencing psychiatric symptoms such as:
- Aggressive behaviors (i.e. fire-setting, assault or violence)
- Homicidal or suicidal thoughts or gestures
- Sexual misconduct
- Unusual or delayed development
- Issues resulting from severe trauma
Once at Beech Brook, children and their families have access to a wide range of
services, including:
- Diagnostic assessment
- Partial hospitalization
- Individual, family and group therapies
- Psychiatric/medical services
- Music and art therapy
- Speech therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Crisis intervention and support
- Transition support and consultation with schools and families
Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU)
For children and teens experiencing acute, unmanageable, psychotic, aggressive or self-harming behaviors, Beech Brook’s Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU) provides short-term treatment in two self-contained cottage units.
With lengths of stay ranging from just a few to 30 days, Beech Brook’s ITU offers crisis stabilization—an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization—or a step-down program following a brief hospital stay. A flexible package of services is tailored to provide each child and family with the right mix of therapy and support.
Day Treatment
Beech Brook’s Day Treatment program is designed for children who are able to remain at home with their biological, adoptive or foster families, but have mental health issues requiring therapy and support beyond the resources of their community schools. While in Day Treatment, children receive many of the same services as those in Residential Treatment, but return home in the evening. This treatment program often helps children smooth the transition from residential to community living.
Gund School
Children in Residential and Day Treatment attend the campus-based Gund School, which is part of the Orange School District. Gund School teachers also run classrooms in the ITU. Each classroom is staffed by a teacher certified to teach children with severe behavioral handicaps, as well as an aide, with additional classroom support. At the end of the school day and on weekends, most children participate in our Partial Hospitalization program, an intensive therapeutic group program.
Watch this inspirational video which talks about how Caleb was quickly diagnosed and treated at Beech Brook to help both he and his family.