S.U.M.M.I.T. Program
"Success Using Morale, Motivation, Individual, and Treatment"
The S.U.M.M.I.T. Program provides residential programming for adolescent males ages 12 to 18 years old with varying backgrounds and histories of system involvement who would benefit from a short term residential stay (3-6 months). Clients are either Adjudicated Delinquent or Child in Need of Assistance and court ordered into foster group care. Clients have either acquired delinquent charges prior to placement or are experiencing such severe disruptive at home or in the community that future delinquent behavior is probable without intervention. S.U.M.M.I.T. has successfully been used either as an initial effort, prior to longer-term residential placements, or as an alternative to previously failed placements. We utilize a cognitive-behavioral approach incorporating milieu, individual therapy, group therapy, families and communities.
Program Elements:
- On-site LPHA's to conduct assessments for BHIS services
- On-site BHIS service workers for individual, group and family skill building
- Tru-thought accountability
- Aggression Replacement Training
- Cognitive restructuring
- Client assistance fund available to help cover individual/family needs such as: gas money, hotel stays, bus tickets, uniform fees for organized athletics, etc.
- Substance abuse counseling and support provided in partnership with local agencies and various AA/Alanon/NA groups
- Opportunities for community involvement through structured activities and community service projects
- On-site vocational opportunities with our dietary and maintenance departments
- Structured recreational activities
- On campus learning center offering structured elementary, middle and high school level education instruction and GED assistance
- Psychiatrist comes on-site weekly for case review and medication monitoring
- On-site nursing available 24 hours a day
- On-site therapy services for individual and family therapy
Additional Services:
- Iowa KidsNet partner agency
- Family, Safety, Risk & Permanency Services
- Foster Care/Adoption Counseling
- Rape/Sexual Assault Counseling
- Domestic Violence Counseling
- Individual and family therapy
- IA/IL Athletics Association
