Description:
The Community Care Program is a community-based, family-oriented specialized outpatient mental health service for seriously emotionally disturbed Passaic County youths and their families. The Program has been in operation continuously since 1982. The goal of the Community Care Program is to mainstream the identified child into the community. By meeting the child’s and family’s mental health needs as well as ensuring positive and optimal functioning in all relevant life spheres, this goal can be met.
The Ida Gurtman Therapeutic Children’s Program is a specialized, partial care/day treatment program for children between the ages of 2½ and 6 years whose emotional problems interfere with their daily functioning. The program services children and their families in one of two three-hour sessions, either 9:00 am to 12 noon or 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Monday through Friday.
The Partial Care 6-11 program serves children between the ages of 6 and 11 who have been psychiatrically hospitalized, or who are at risk of psychiatric hospitalization. The families of these children are treated simultaneously. This is an on-site, after-school, year ‘round intensive therapeutic program that meets for three hours daily, Monday through Friday, after school from 3:15 pm to 6:15 pm. During the summer the program runs from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm.