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Our Program
Meridian Youth Treatment Center's Intensive Day Treatment program helps teens and young adults, their families and parents find hope, help, and make positive changes. Our Intensive Day Treatment program is for teens and young adults who require the best and most in-depth treatment available. Intensive Day Treatment offers a wonderful alternative to the higher cost of inpatient treatment when standard outpatient treatment is not enough.
If you answer yes to any of these questions, then Meridian can help you:
- Are you feeling alone and powerless?
- Are you worried about drug/alcohol use, an emotional state that is not under control, involvement in high-risk behaviors, cutting, out-of-control anger, or refusal to attend school?
- Do you need a transition from a psychiatric hospital or residential treatment stay?
- Are you looking for an alternative to the higher cost of inpatient residential treatment or psychiatric hospitalization?
- Are you waiting for a residential placement and you need more immediate help because your family is in crisis?
Meridian offers treatments that research shows are specifically effective with young people. Our program help teens and young adults understand and manage their symptoms, increase personal responsibility, change their way of thinking, and take control over their lives. We offer an adolescent-centered approach to mental health and substance abuse treatment. Our approach "meets young people where they are at" and we work with you, taking into account your strengths, core issues and unique personal history to motivate you and help you identify your own specific reasons for changing unhealthy behaviors.
We believe that a successful transition to adulthood requires skills in the following areas: dealing with emotions, getting along with others, and problem-solving. Because we want to foster your success, we focus on helping you develop the essential skills that you will need in order to be successful at home and in your community – not just in our treatment program.
Our program focuses on your entire family. We value the important role that parents, siblings, extended family, and other institutions can play in your life and development. In addition to individual family therapy sessions, your parents will be invited to attend parenting seminars and required to participate in multi-family therapy. At Meridian, we believe that parents are the most important influence in their children's life. You have the ability to inspire your child to make the changes that will lead to a more fulfilled life. Your family will participate in a number of therapeutic activities both as an individual family as well as with other families, where you can offer each other support, information, and compassion. The sense of community created by our families is a great benefit when you are feeling alone and worried about your child. At Meridian Youth Treatment Center, parents will learn practical tools that will help reduce family stress, improve family relationships, and increase self-confidence in raising children in today's world.
