A residential treatment center for teen girls and their families

The safety of our students is our #1 priority at New Haven. In fact, when New Haven’s doors opened in 1995, it was because our founders were committed to creating a program that was different than the other programs that existed at the time. Our founders were working in another program and wanted something better for adolescent girls and their families. New Haven’s focus on safe, caring, transformative relationships both at New Haven and in your family continues to be one of our most important methods for healing.

There has been some negative press about residential treatment programs over the last few years. Most adolescents who have been in residential treatment have had good experiences. Unfortunately, some have not. New Haven operates very differently than residential treatment programs did 30 – 40 years ago. In the 1980s and 1990s, many programs were focused on behavior modification, sometimes including physical labor, which was thought to be the most effective way to help adolescents change their unhealthy behaviors. Many programs carried out behavior modification in therapeutic ways. Some did not. New Haven is proud to be one of the first relational programs in our field and the first adolescent treatment center specifically for biological females in Utah.

New Haven has been, and continues to be, committed to providing an out-of-home treatment option for families that we would be comfortable sending our own children to. We use a selective admissions process to ensure that the students coming to New Haven are not a risk to others. We track incidents and review them monthly. We hire carefully and continuously train our staff.

All New Haven employees:

• Pass a national background check clearing them to work with adolescents
• Go through an extensive training program at hire and ongoing throughout their employment
• Are trained in CPR and 1st aid
• Learn to use de-escalation techniques
• Have weekly training and 1:1 meetings with their supervisors at least monthly

New Haven is one of 19 programs in the United States that maintains NATSAP’s Research Designated Program Gold Status. NATSAP is the National Association for Therapeutic Schools and Programs, and New Haven is proud to belong to NATSAP. New Haven began collecting outcomes data in 2006 and maintains the most robust outcomes collection in our industry. We use standardized measures that are internally validated and reliable to measure family health, depression, suicidality, overall social and emotional health, progress on goals, safety, and client and family satisfaction. New Haven is accredited by The Joint Commission, the gold standard in health care accreditation in the United States.