Program areas at Gibault
Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) unit is designed to provide a secure, stable environment to youth who require 24 hour secure care. The PRTF program is highly structured and is designed to help youth ages 6-21 to learn new living and social skills. The PRTF unit provides a locked living unit for clients who are experiencing difficulties in the following areas: family functioning or social relatedness, sub-acute or chronic illness, self care difficulties, and/or impaired safety, such as threat to others.
Autism Spectrum Behaviorial Learning Environment (ABLE) program offers a broad continuum of services to children and families of children diagnosed with high functioning Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and Asperger's Syndrome. The ABLE Program provides one-on-one supervision in a semi-secure residential environment for youth ages 6-21. The goal of the program is to successfully reintegrate each student back into his community, home and school by improving his quality of life making him as independent as possible. The ABLE program teaches life skills that children need to become active members of society. The program is equipped to provide special education and residential programming, as well as psychological and therapeutic services, as needed.Gibault, Inc. also provides aftercare for a defined period after the students are released from the campus. This may include face-to-face visits, telephone calls, and inquiries of the those people who interact with the students on a day to day basis (ie employer, teacher, friend, etc). Aftercare is to provide additional assistance to the students to make sure they continue to make good decisions and to provide positive enforcement to the students once they leave Gibault's campus.
Child & Adolescent Residential Environment Program (CARE) provides a structured environment for youth ages 6-21 in a staff-secure environment. The CARE program focuses on five essential areas: client's physical, educational, emotional, spiritual and social needs. Clients are taught life and relationship skills, then provided a consistent and structured environment to demonstrate those skills. Group and one-on-one counseling is provided as well as use of a psychologist and/or psychiatrist as the need occurs.The CARE program also involves the education of the clients. Gibault, Inc. houses and operates the "Holy Cross School" for which clients in the CARE program attend. Holy Cross School provides classes for grades K-12. It allows those clients who meet the state requirements to receive their high school diploma. Additionally, the school also provides the curriculum for students to obtain their GED.Gibault, Inc. also provides aftercare related to this program. This includes follow-up, analysis, and monitoring of clients who have been discharged. This may include face-to-face visits, telephone calls, and inquiries of the people who interact with the students on a day-to-day basis (ie employer, teacher, friend, etc). This program is to help make sure the clients make a successful transition back into their schools, families and communities.
Prosocial Adolescent Specialized Treatment (PAST) is a specialized treatment unit for children with sexually maladaptive behaviors. The primary goal of the PAST is to have the juvenile offender demonstrate appropriate sexual behavior. This goal is met through the main objective of the sexual abuser learning to demonstrate empathy for victims, generating improved self-esteem, and learning healthy human sexuality. Counseling and therapy is provided in a staff-secure environment in both individual and group settings. Development of appropriate relationships, responsibility, empathy, communication, and social skills training is emphasized.