Gemma Services

Residential treatment program: the children and youth served in this program experience serious emotional and behavioral health issues. The rt program provides a therapeutic living environment that includes individualized treatment, supervision, care and nurturing for youth on a 24-hour-a-day basis through outcome-oriented treatment (planning-implementation-evaluation), psychiatric evaluation, trauma informed therapy, case management, behavior management and health care. Available therapies include individual, family, group, a highly structured milieu, counseling, behavioral, and medication. Our rt program includes therapeutic and recreational activities to help enable the youth served to experience joy and opportunites for creative expression. All services are provided with the valued participation of biological, adoptive, and/or foster families.

Community based programs - our community based programs provide: outpatient mental health services; foster family care; adoption services; intensive behavioral health services in a child's home or school; a family empowerment center, and other in-home prevention services to help youth and familes avoid crisis. In fy 23/24 our community based programs served more than 1690 youth ranging in age from birth to 21 years old and their foster and/or biological parents, and our prevention services served an additional 232 families. Youth in foster family care benefit from community placements that address their emotional, medical, behavioral, social, and developmental needs. The program offers structured home living with foster parents who are trained to provide for the specific, identified needs of each child.

Prevention services, empowerment center,

In-home protective services