Anger Management Services

Anger management program helps adolescents and adults manage and healthily direct their anger to restore their quality of life and mental health. Chronic anger is one of the many conditions we treat to help individuals get healthy control over their lives. Suppose a client’s anger has pushed them toward substance or addiction. In that case, we administer a personalized, professional dual-diagnosis treatment plan to treat both conditions simultaneously, which includes: group and individual counseling, meditation and breathing exercises, anger management education and awareness, and a clear and realistic behavioral plan for the future.

Behavior Analyst Assessment

Behavioral assessment involves various methods, including direct observations, interviews, checklists, and tests to identify and define targets for behavior change. The behavioral assessor uses a trauma-informed approach to observe, describe, explain, predict, and sometimes correct behavior. Behavioral assessment can be useful in clinical, educational, and corporate settings.

Behavior Therapy

Applied behavior therapy and play therapy are both used for children 12 – 17 and their parents. Treatment involves teaching children and parents different approaches to responding to unpleasant situations more positively. An essential part of this therapy is rewarding positive behavior and punishing negative behavior. This requires parental / guardianship involvement because caregivers must help to reinforce this in the child’s day-to-day activities.

Comprehensive Psychosocial Assessment

We strive to help each individual to meet their full potential, is an evaluation of their mental health and social well-being is a great start. It assesses the perception of self and the individual’s ability to function in the community.

Full Mental Health Assessment

This assessment gives the counselor a complete picture of the individual’s emotional state. It also looks at how well the person is able to think, reason, and remember (cognitive functioning). Assess their physical, medical, cognitive, psychological (personality, emotions, beliefs, and attitudes), and behavioral history and current condition in order to determine the presence of any mental health disorder. The purpose of an assessment is to build up an accurate picture of each client’s needs. During an assessment, a social worker/ mental health counselor will ask about the following; mental health symptoms and experiences, feelings, thoughts and actions, physical health and wellbeing, housing and financial circumstances, employment and training needs, social and family relationships, culture and ethnic background, gender and sexuality, use of drugs or alcohol, past experiences, especially of similar problems, issues relevant to client’s or others’ safety, whether there is anyone who depends on the client, such as a child or elderly relative, your strengths and skills and what helps the client best and hopes and aspirations for the 

Grief Therapy

Counselor’s at Amitie aims to help each child effectively cope with grief and mourning following the death of loved ones or with major life changes that trigger feelings of grief (parental separations or change of environment). It includes thinking creatively about the challenges that follow loss and coping with concurrent changes in their lives. Often people feel disorganized and tired, have trouble concentrating, sleep poorly, and have vivid dreams, and they may experience a change in appetite.

Youth Targeted Case Management

Medicaid targeted case management for children at risk of abuse and neglect services provide case management to recipients whose parent(s):

  • Is unable to meet their basic needsHas inadequate income or housing
    • Is socially isolated or has limited natural support
    • Is a past or current victim of domestic violence
    • Has a history of mental illness requiring treatment or hospitalization or some degree of mental concern
    • Used harmful substances upon knowledge of pregnancy
    • Received little to no prenatal care or is the subject of a report of abuse and neglect made to the Department of Children and Families that did not result in a court order into foster care, shelter care, or protective supervision.

    The service assists recipients with gaining access to medical, social, educational, and other services as required.

Youth Independent Living Life Skills

Independent Living (IL) is a program that assists current and former foster youth between the ages of 16 and 24 to achieve self-sufficiency before and after exiting the foster care system. Services available to help young people prepare for adulthood include:

  • Independent Life Skill Classes
  • Daily Living Skills
  • Education Resources
  • Financial Assistance with Continuous Education
  • Job Placement Assistance
  • Housing Resources
  • Money Management
  • Decision Making
  • Building Self-esteem
  • Support and Advocacy

GOAL: The goal of MY Independent Living classes is to assist foster youth in maintaining a safe group of support while experiencing independence in a secure and supervised living environment.  The time as a minor transitional dependent can assist the youth in becoming better prepared for a successful transition into adulthood and self-sufficiency through education, supportive services, and employment training. This curriculum serves as a basic introduction to Independent Living. It’s intended to be a resource to introduce the Foster Care community and Independent Living Skills to young people for the first time. As individuals, we grow and develop as leaders. It’s part of our lives. We want to introduce Independent Living to great minds that may not realize the influence they have in their own decision-making that shapes their lives. We want to instill in young leaders the tools they need to live satisfying, productive, fulfilling, and connected lives. We need to make decisions in our own lives, but first, we need the information, skills, support, and resources that allow those decisions to be good decisions. After all, knowledge is power! Independent Living means learning how to live within a community as an equally contributing, productive, and satisfied member with the same rights and powers, and opportunities as other community members. Living independently may mean different things to different people. That in itself is a sign of independence. But we can all agree that independence is about embracing our differences and making our lives what we want them to be. Living independently means living a self-directed life, both on our own and with selected community support.