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New Perspectives - Feb,
2002 Issue #91
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Copperhills
Youth Center
West Jordan, Utah
800-776-7116
Located near the Oquirrah Mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah, Copper
Hills Youth Center has the goal of providing an environment of harmony, stability, steadiness, and wholeness to help teens learn to
deal with their problems so they can have a promising future. This 94-bed adolescent treatment facility serves troubled youth, ages
12-18 years of age. Offering gender specific programs programming for both boys and girls, they “provide a safe, secure, and highly
structured environment that “promotes healthy and adaptive coping skills.”
“An individualized treatment plan is developed for each student by the inter-disciplinary team of professionals that includes physicians,
nurses, teachers, licensed therapists and mental health associates. These professionals join with family and a positive peer culture
to lead, guide and create an interactive and flexible environment - for change. As the youth advance in the prescribed levels, they
find success in their efforts and develop new skills in the process. This structure, with its new peers, pressures and rules, challenges
and standards, is directed and supported by a caring staff, a personalized treatment plan and a consistency of experience. The structure
is both safe and secure. From this regimen will emerge new ways of coping, new styles of behavior, new applications for ideas and
new means of expressing feelings, resolving conflicts and establishing boundaries.”
This program is licensed by the State of Utah, Department of Health and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Heathcare
Organizations (JCAHO), the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges and the Utah State Board of Education.
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