New Haven Residential Treatment Center was awarded Utah’s Best of State Award for the category of “Youth Treatment Center“. New Haven’s residential treatment program helps adolescent girls achieve positive change and growth through academic, therapeutic and relationship-focused experiences, they are located in Spanish Fork and Saratoga Springs, Utah.
According to the press release, “nominees for the Utah Best of State Award were judged in three areas: service to the community, innovation, and overall excellence. Dana Layton, Best of State’s CEO, wrote, “Your nomination was judged on its merits by an independent panel of judges who were recommended by Chambers of Commerce, various state associations, community and business leaders, and mayors’ offices.”
New Haven’s philosophy is relationship-based treatment vs. a behavior-modification model which has been found to be abusive and for many does not work. According to New Haven’s website “research continually proves that one of the most effective ways to inspire hope and motivate change is the relationship a troubled teenage girl has with her therapist. New Haven focuses its entire program around modeling and developing healthy, healing relationships.”
I personally have not had any experience with New Haven, but as I researched the facility there was one aspect of the program that really caught my eye. I have found that if I do not have contact with my child that is in residential treatment at least every 8 weeks, we tend to lose a connection. I feel I need to make face to face contact every two months. At New Haven the program includes Family Weekends and they occur every eight weeks. Travel does become difficult but this is a great program to keep families connected.
It appears that 100% of New Haven School’s Class of 2008 is Accepted to College, click the link June 2008.
Anyone that has experience with New Haven please comment and share your experiences, we would love to hear them.
Additional information on New Haven:
New Haven Fact Sheet – pdf format
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I went there about 4 years ago. It saved my life. I now
Am happy and have found my self and built my relationships around
Me to almost perfect! They are amazing at what they do.
Honestly I don’t know where I would be without them.
Our daughter has been there for only a bit over 4 weeks. And after nearly a year of failed treatment programs and other “well known” RTC’s we have finally found HOPE!! New Haven has a totally new outlook on treatment. We have learned very quickly that you can not treat to behaviors, but the core is where you have to go to make a change. It is a long hard road but we are up for the challenge. Funding is a struggle we are also battling. We are in IL try you local county NAMI (National Association of Mental Illness) organization and see about and state mental health grants. We have one in IL we have applied for and are still waiting to hear. You can also apply for Social Security, as long as the child is already placed in RTC your income is not considered. If you are awarded SSI you daughter can qualify for Medicaid. We have also hired a attorney to work with the school district. We are are praying one will prevail. I think it will. Good Luck to ALL – Do not doubt it for a second New Haven is where your daughter will get healthy. Don’t even second guess it!
hi my name is deann i am 15 and for the past two years my life has been really really bad drugs..cutting…suicidal thought… self esteem issues…my mom got me a councler but i just dont like talking to him i feel unsafe with him and i relize i need help. i was wondering if anyone had a idea for me to ask my mom to enroll me in NH my friends sister went there and beniffited a lot…so if anyone could help.
Oh god, we were actually considering New Haven, actually a lot of the other treatment centers have covered up things, but a lot don’t. I think we might rethink New Haven, I hope you’re daughter is better now. Thanks for notifying us.
My daughter was here about a year ago. We toured it and it seemed like the perfect place. After about two weeks, we got a call saying that she had jumped off some sort of balcony and broken her leg. She was fine, but she said that she couldn’t handle being in a place like that and just wanted to die. Before she went there she didn’t ever have a problem with suicide. We actually only put her there because of severe family issues. Please don’t let the same thing happen to your daughter.
We are needing residential for our daughter, who keeps running away, stealing, drugs missing school. We have had her in all kinds of hospitals with no hope. We are not giving us on her and after having quite a few people look at your website, both professional and family, it seems like the ideal place for her. We need your help.
Jodi,
I’m very sorry to hear about your daughter. Please know you can call me directly at 801-380-4380. I am an Admissions Counselor for New Haven.
I hope to hear from you soon!
Irene Kotter
I am having a lot of trouble with my 15yer old daughter, and would apprecite ANY help, or comments from you or NH…….I need HELP, now!
Hi Shayna, we also have the same question. We live in California and the schools will not cover it, and the insurance doesn’t seem to want to cover it. If you hear anything, please pass it along. Thanks!!
Our daughter is now in her 5th month at NH. So far, so good. QUESTION: Has anyone here received TUITION FUNDING for New haven, particularly from California? Our district is refusing to fund uslectso we need precedents. Thanks.
Hi Kegan, I am glad to hear you received the help you needed. It is not that unusual for a teen to leave on treatment center to go to another. Good luck to you and thanks for commenting.
I went to New Haven about 7 years ago, and yeah, it fundamentally changed my life, and my personality. I really got lucky going there, because truth be told, I came from a crappy neglectful home, and was all kinds of messed up. I was able to repair the relationships with my parents, and accept them for who they are eventually. I was actually kicked out in my 8th month, and sent to a different center, but I will always remember New Haven as having taught me how to learn who I am, as they say, teach a girl to fish, feed her for a lifetime. Thank you for teaching us mindfulness, and well deserved award.
Hi Sara, Comments like yours give others hope, I appreciate your sharing. Good luck to you and keep up the good work.
I was a student at New Haven and graduated the program, it was the difference in my life. I’m still in contact with my therapist, some staff, girls who have left, and girls who are still there. New Haven worked with a wide variety of girls and iI promise if you and your daughter are willing to do the work I promise that you guys will have a better relationship and your child will start to make the right desitions for herself. New Haven is a wonderful place, I think it’s the best. The best house is also the WEST or SAC house at the south campus.