A Child's Home Away from Home
CCH's Residential Treatment Program cares for boys ages 6-17 who are struggling with emotional and behavioral disturbances usually because of severe abuse or neglect. Each boy receives his own room, 24-hour support and supervision, on-grounds schooling, recreation and intensive therapy to help prepare them for a return to the community. For boys who have been sexually abused or exposed to inappropriate sexual influences at a young age, CCH offers specialized residential treatment in the Hope Center.
The Agape Independent Living Program serves young adults ages 17-21 - especially teen mothers -- who can no longer live in foster care or with their natural families and who are about to leave child welfare custody. Youth in this program are given the help, encouragement and supervision needed to establish an apartment in the community, to complete high school and to develop the employment, life and parenting skills they will need to be successful, independent adults.
Hope & Healing for Families in Crisis
For children who are living at home, but whose families are in crisis, the Family Services Program provides community-based services designed to prevent abuse and neglect and preserve and strengthen families.
In this program, CCH's caseworkers and family therapists provide intensive family therapy and support to families who are at risk of having their children placed into protective custody, who are reuniting after having lost their children to custody, who are struggling to keep a teenager in the home or part of the family, or who are experiencing difficulty with a foster child.
Community Outreach
The Home's Outpatient Counseling Program offers therapy for children, teens, adults and families who are experiencing difficulties and/or are recovering from the effects of abuse or neglect. In addition, therapists from CCH's School-Based Counseling Program provide on-site therapy and intervention for at-risk children in the Cleveland Metropolitan Schools who might not otherwise receive counseling. Our on-site therapists also conduct esteem-building and other classroom group exercises.
System of Care Program serves children and their families who have serious emotional needs that severely disrupt relationships; have needs that require many sources of support that cannot be met by traditional services; and are at risk of more intensive involvement with Cuyahoga County’s child serving systems. CCH’s System of Care Program utilizes a collaborative, team-based approach to service delivery that is based on family voice and choice; waparound services and creative solutions to maintain current placements; the strengths of youth, family, neighborhood, needs and culture; and a team effort that involves the youth, their families, professionals, community and neighborhood supports working together.