We are a competence and education focused community, supporting youth and families form healthy and secure family connections, overcome adversity and traumatic experiences, build social competency, and develop emotional and behavioral self-regulation skills. 

Overview

Valuing that each child and family has distinctive strengths and needs, we join with them to identify what is needed for their child to return to his home or the community. 
Stetson School is a 24 -hour, 7 day per week therapeutic community that provides in the moment teaching opportunities that supports boys and young men with high-risk behaviors and their families leverage their strengths, practice new behavior, and gain insight into their specific challenges so that they may achieve and maintain a permanent family connection. 
The program is designed for youth with complex developmental difficulties, such as learning disabilities, chronic mental illness, autism spectrum disorders, and histories of high-risk behaviors, including sexually problematic behavior, sexually reactive behavior, and sexually abusive behavior and who have suffered from severe trauma, histories of sexual, physical, and/or emotional abuse, disrupted foster placements, failed adoptions, and psychiatric hospitalizations.
Stetson School is a nationally accredited, fully licensed, Chapter 766-approved Residential Treatment Program for boys ages 9-22 who can benefit from a staff-secure group setting.
We foster empathy and alliance between our treatment community and the child and family. 

Family Partnerships

Families hopes and goals for their children are critical to their child's success, both in his treatment at Stetson, and in the future. 
Stetson School is a flexible, family-driven program specializing in safety, stabilization, and assessment. We foster empathy and alliance between our treatment community and the child and family.

Understanding how a child’s development has shaped his strengths and weaknesses, and unique learning style, Stetson reinforces resiliency and recovery and keeps hope alive. 
At Stetson families plays a vital role in their children's treatment. We recognize that families know their children better than anyone. We value each family's distinctive strengths and needs and we join with families to discover what it will take for their child to live with them and their family - at home or in the community. 

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  • 24 -hour, 7 day per week therapeutic community 
  • Treating male youth with high-risk behaviors and their families
  • Youth may also have  complex developmental difficulties, such as learning disabilities, chronic mental illness, autism spectrum disorders
  • Behavior Disorder Treatment Track for youth with significant behavioral challenges
  • Problem Sexual Treatment Track for youth with history of  sexually problematic behavior, sexually reactive behavior, and sexually abusive behavior

Attachment-Oriented, Trauma-Informed, and Developmentally Sensitive Treatment  

ACORN Treatment and Rehabilitation

We understand the pervasive effect of trauma on individuals, and use interventions that support youth in overcoming trauma and adversity.
We help youth to create “new” selves, form healthy and secure attachments, overcome traumatic experiences, build social competency, and improve behavioral self-regulation. Our ACORN ® Treatment and Rehabilitation model recognizes the impact of the social environment on development and is aimed at multiple goals that connect the youth to the larger social community. 

Systematic Training in the Recovery from Trauma

We provide trauma focused treatment and programming based in  START training, Systematic Training in the Recovery from Trauma. We understand the pervasive effect of trauma on individuals, and use interventions that support youth in overcoming trauma and adversity. We understand what constitutes a safe environment, how children in our care have been affected by traumatic events, what specific behaviors may be directly linked to prior trauma, and what language  we can use to help mend the effects of those traumas.
We help youth create “new” selves, form healthy and secure attachments, overcome traumatic experiences, build social competency, and improve behavioral self-regulation.

Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Our Clinicians, Case Managers, and Managing Directors are certified in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). TF-CBT is an evidence based intervention that incorporates trauma-sensitive interventions with cognitive, behavioral, family and humanistic principles and techniques to help children and families process thoughts and feelings related to traumatic events; manage and resolve distressing thoughts, feelings and behaviors; and enhance safety, growth, parenting skills, and family communication.