KidsPeace Launches New Residential Treatment Program For Youth In Pennsylvania

KidsPeace has launched a new program to serve teens who, because of significant traumatic events in their lives, have more severe behavioral challenges than those normally addressed in traditional psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF) programming. The new program, called “Explorer PRTF,” is designed to provide the youth a safe and supportive environment in which to concentrate on development of appropriate social skills and emotional responses, to combat the chronic debilitating health effects they experience as a result of their trauma.

The Explorer program currently treats males 13 to 18 years of age; it was developed in collaboration with Magellan Behavioral . . .