Mental health treatment for teens that supports the whole family
Family First Adolescent Services specializes in sophisticated approaches for the most common and complex disorders affecting teenagers.
Family First Adolescent Services
Family First Adolescent Services provides mental health treatment with an adolescent-specific approach. Our trauma-informed methods address the underlying causes of the most common and complex disorders affecting teenagers, such as anxiety and depression, substance use, problematic gaming, and behavioral issues.
We’ve tailored our approach to the adolescent client through teen-centric activities that tap into their sense of creativity, community and vitality.
Vital Program Elements
Throughout a client's treatment at Family First Adolescent Services' beautiful, modern facility, he'll stay at one of our comfortable homelike residences where he'll be surrounded by other boys his age and supported by our staff around the clock.
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He'll participate in individual, group, and family therapy sessions, explore his inner world through Focus Weeks, connect and engage body and mind through clinically-driven experiential activities, and continue his studies with the support our staff teachers.
Family members will receive regular updates from their child's therapist, case manager, and teacher, and benefit from weekly family therapy sessions, local therapeutic or community-based referrals, and our intensive onsite Parent Interaction Program.
From our Founders
james mcmanus
CO-FOUNDER
ben cecil
CO-FOUNDER
Since opening our doors in 2014, the goal of Family First Adolescent Services has been to help families address the most common and complex mental health challenges that affect teens. Our many years of experience demonstrated that adolescents need a specialized approach that meets them on their level and that addresses what’s going on beneath the surface-level symptoms.
We are the only treatment center for teens specializing in mental health and focusing on complex and developmental trauma. We offer the most comprehensive treatment program for teens in the country. Our uniquely teen-centric program provides the intensity, engagement and compassion that adolescents need to connect with their inner world and their own journey of healing.
We give the teens and families who come through our doors the tools and understanding they need to lead healthy, meaningful and fulfilling lives.
The Family First Adolescent Services team is stacked with individuals possessing in-demand and highly specialized skills, and our entire clinical staff has received NARM training.
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Nowhere in our state is any treatment center providing intensive and compassionate care to teens and their families that specifically addresses the unique issues faced by an adolescent demographic. We’re proud to serve our families in this way, and proud of our entire team who constantly strives for both excellence and professional growth.