Program areas at J Bar J Youth Services
J BAR J BOYS RANCH and J5Facilitating Positive Change for Youth: A residential treatment program for adjudicated teen boys, providing an opportunity to restructure thinking, succeed academically, and grow in responsibility. J5 offers short-term stabilization, assisting boys on parole or probation to move to lesser level of support by teaching intervention and de-escalation skills. Both are served through the J Bar J Learning Center, an on-site, private alternative school program contracted with the Bend-La Pine School District, which offers a diploma track and GED preparation and testing. They work to increase grade level and re-engage students in the learning process.
ACADEMY AT SISTERSEmpowering at-risk girls to lead healthy lives: A therapeutic boarding school using an approach blending both traditional and experiential therapies, such as:Accountability-Based Cognitive Awareness helps address patterns which influence thoughts, emotions (feelings), choices, behaviors, and decision making.Dialectical Behavioral Therapy offers additional tools and coping strategies to help manage the behaviors and issues that are creating stress and discord.Equine Assisted Psychotherapy affords a way to engage youth who are resistant to traditional talk therapy through the use of horses as a medium and metaphor to treatment.
Prevention Services are provided through cascade Youth & family Services tomany at-risk Youth through crisis intervention, parent-child intervention,and parent training.