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Perspectives
- Apr, 1993 Issue #21 |
DESERT HILLS
Center for Youth and Families
Tucson, Arizona
800-367-6313
Review by: Linda Shaffer
Desert Hills
Center for Youth and Families in Tucson, Arizona,
has been serving children since 1973. Its continuum of mental
health services for children and adolescents includes:
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Acute inpatient
hospitalization.
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Partial hospital
and day treatment programs for teens.
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Sub-Acute residential
treatment programs for children & adolescents.
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Specialty treatment
services in the areas of medical/psychiatric disorders,
sexual and physical abuse, and alcohol and other drug
abuse.
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An array of
outpatient services including individual, family and group
therapies and free community support groups.
Desert Hills began
as the Jay McCaffery School for emotionally disturbed
boys. Today, this center is accredited by the JCAHO,
the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools,
and is Champus approved. They provide two campuses
on 50 landscaped and natural desert acres where they offer
a variety of education, therapeutic and recreation services.
With almost no advertising,
Desert Hills referrals have come from 30 states as the word
has gotten around about the program's successes. They report
their staff retention is excellent.
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© 1993, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
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