The child and adolescent partial hospitalization programs offer comprehensive, short-term treatment of acute psychiatric conditions to children and adolescents ranging in age from five to18 years.

Child and adolescent partial hospitalization services, provided at Clara's House, operate Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Participants return home at the end of each day.

Admission to a program may follow inpatient mental health care to maintain stability in the transition back to home, school and the community.

Alternatively the programs are also offered for children and adolescents in need of intensive treatment who are able to function safely without an initial hospital admission.

Our treatment team, directed by psychiatrists, provides services based on individual treatment plans. In addition to the child and adolescent psychiatrists, therapeutic staff includes a licensed clinical social worker, registered nurse, mental health assistant, program facilitator and art, occupational and recreational therapists. Teachers from Independent School District 742 work with patients each day to regain and maintain academic progress.

Each participant’s goals and therapeutic needs determine individual length of involvement in the program. The treatment teams make further service recommendations and help students and their families set up community outpatient resources at the time of discharge.