Crisis Receiving Centers are private residential facilities and schools for children accepting admissions 24 hours daily 365 days a year, for the provision of Intensive/Crisis residential services to male and female youth ages twelve to seventeen years, who are experiencing a behavioral crisis and may have a documented mental health diagnosis. The CRC’s are highly secure facilities located on gated campuses to ensure order within a highly structured environment. We provide services to those residents who have had unsuccessful community reintegration. Based on the assessment of a mental health professional, these children can be stabilized with intensive mental health services within a therapeutic milieu. This service will also be available to those children who are in need of continued care in a highly structured and specialized residential program, but for whom there is no other residential bed immediately available.

From the time of admission, an individual plan of service is developed for each resident, which includes the plan for discharge and/or transition.

Because CRC believes that each youth’s problems and care are unique, length of placement varies according to individual needs. No arbitrary minimum or maximum length of stay has been established. Emphasis is placed upon individual development within a group environment. However, the goal of CRC is primarily to stabilize and gather as much information regarding the youth (diagnostics) and transition the client to either a more or lesser restrictive environment as soon as he/she is ready.

The Mission
Crisis Receiving Center(s) (CRC) provide crisis stabilization to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations for children. CRS offers responsive, community based services which respect the dignity of individuals and families. It is our goal to enhance the individuals’s natural support systems to assist them in dealing with crises in the least intrusive manner