RYC Programs & Services

Residential Youth Care (RYC) is a behavioral health provider that offers community-based residential and outpatient clinical and therapeutic rehabilitation services to severely emotionally disturbed youth ages 10-19 experiencing a variety of emotional/behavioral disturbances and/or functional impairments in the home, school, and/or community. 
RYC offers both short-term and long-term residential programs, therapeutic foster care, family services, and out-patient/aftercare services, as well as emergency shelter services to youth and families in crisis.
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RYC approaches youth at risk and their families using a Kitchen Table approach: sitting down at the table to make treatment goals, decisions, and progress together. RYC has three primary focuses that underlie all programs and services:
  1. Educational/Vocational Success
  2. Whole Health and Resiliency
  3. Family Engagement & Empowerment

RYC’s main program focuses on the development of the following 15 core social skills:
  • Following instructions 
  • Accepting feedback 
  • Reporting whereabouts 
  • Asking permission 
  • Accepting the answer “no”
  • Saying “no” to peers
  • Rational problem solving 
  • School Success
  • Promptness
  • Health
  • Accepting compliments 
  • Giving compliments
  • Honesty
  • SODAS process for decision-making
  • Peer and adult relations
RYC offers the following services to youth experiencing emotional/behavioral difficulties and their families:

  • Individual and family counseling with Master's level professional therapist
  • Group therapy: daily "Family Conference" for residential clients, core group, and special topics groups (life skills, substance abuse, self-esteem, female/male, etc.)
  • Case management services to coordinate care and access to resources​
  • Therapeutic behavioral rehabilitation services for children (individual and group skill-building) in the community and school setting to build social skills and improve the functioning
  • School support services* including individualized school success planning, academic tracking, study skills group, and credit recovery options
  • Parenting Orientation Class* with RYC's executive director - training on RYC's program and behavioral techniques that can be implemented in the home. The class concludes in the development of Parenting/Family-Child Contracts.