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- Adolescent Unit & Independent Living Unit
The Adolescent Unit provides services to adolescents and their families. Clientele are defined as abused, neglected adolescents who exhibit numerous adjustment difficulties such as: parent child conflict, truancy and school problems, abuse of drugs and alcohol, teenage pregnancy, psychological / emotional difficulties, learning disorders and delinquency problems. Youth are served within their own homes, foster care, community based facilities and residential facilities.
The Independent Living Unit provides services to youth, aged 16 and over, to help prepare them for independence following their emancipation from the child welfare system. Any youth, up to age 21, who has ever been in foster care, for any amount of time after their 14 birthday, is eligible to participate in these services.