What Is A Residential Treatment Center?
Residential treatment centers are live-in mental health treatment facilities that provide therapeutic programming to help individuals who struggle with mental and behavioral health challenges and difficult life circumstances.
Trails Carolina is a leading residential treatment center for youth between the ages of 10 and 17. Our residential treatment program offers powerful therapeutic interventions that include a combination of strengths-based individual therapy, relationship-based group therapy, and multidimensional family therapy.
With a focus on teen mental health, our residential treatment approach includes trauma-informed, experiential therapy methods that aid in:
- the reduction of damaging behavioral issues,
- the development of coping strategies that replace self-harm and support a healthy lifestyle,
- an increase in self-awareness and confidence, and
- increased resilience and the ability to overcome stress and anxiety.
Located amid the tranquil natural beauty of North Carolina, our residential treatment center creates a supportive environment for adolescents and teens to heal by removing distractions such as technology, temptations of daily life, and negative influences.
Additionally, our treatment program operates within an intentional transition model that offers students ample opportunities to practice using their newly learned coping mechanisms, self-regulating techniques, and communication skills in a structured environment and in response to a variety of situations. This practice helps ease the transition as our students complete our program and return home.
Why Choose Trails Carolina For Youth Mental Health Support?
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A Transformative Mental Health Experience Awaits
There are many significant considerations when families are searching for ways to better support children who are struggling.
For our students, these struggles can include:
- Mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, defiant behaviors, co-occurring disorders
- Behavioral issues like manipulative behavior, aggression, and defiant behavior or oppositional defiant disorder
- Self-image & social challenges related to low self-esteem, social isolation, bullying, challenges forming and maintaining relationships, and peer pressure
- Family-related issues related to adoption, attachment issues, and difficulty communicating effectively with family members
- Developmental disorders such as ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)
- Academic and learning difficulties, including poor academic achievement, learning differences, and school refusal
- Trauma and crisis treatment needs including trauma processing, self-harm, and suicide ideation
- Behavioral addictions like video game obsession, technology addiction and obsession, and substance use or experimentation
In the range of mental health treatment options, intensive treatment combined with residential care has been found to be extremely beneficial compared to other non-residential interventions. Here's a snapshot of our program:
- How long does the program last? The average length of treatment at Trails Carolina is relatively short (70-90 days) compared to that of a longer-term therapeutic boarding school (9-12 months), while assessment, diagnoses, and lasting results are high (read residential therapy reviews).
- How much does it cost? The cost of residential therapy is also an important consideration when choosing between treatment facilities. At Trails Carolina, tuition is based on a daily rate of $715 per day for our Youth Groups (10-13) and $675 for our Adolescent Groups (14-17).
- What's included? Tuition includes everything from an individualized treatment plan and therapy sessions with expert clinicians, to natural horsemanship programs, to family coaching and alumni support services, to nutritious meals, clothing, and room & board.
Our Residential Program Groups
At Trails Carolina, we provide a supportive, healthy environment for a variety of age groups to receive treatment for various behavioral and mental health issues. Our residential therapy programs include options for preteen boys (10-13), preteen girls (10-13), teen girls (14-17), and teen boys (14-17).
Residential Therapy for Boys 10-13
Residential Therapy for Girls 10-13
Residential Therapy for Girls 14-17
Residential Therapy for Boys 14-17
We believe that segmenting groups by age and gender allows our team of mental health professionals, residential and field staff, and accredited academic educators to provide more focused and effective personalized care to each student. Additionally, evidence shows that using segmented peer groups helps students learn to build positive relationships among their own peers. This makes the transition back to traditional school settings easier for young people. And it helps our students learn how to interact and build healthy connections for life!
Trails Carolina’s Residential Treatment Programs for adolescents & teens are dedicated to helping students work through behavioral and emotional difficulties, build trusting relationships with their family and peers, and achieve academic success.
Evidence-Based Benefits Of Our Residential Treatment Programs
As the need for inpatient care centers and therapeutic programs for youth continues to increase, more and more parents are asking the question, Does residential therapy work?
At Trails Carolina, the empirical evidence from a ongoing third-party research initiative with CReATE and the University of Arkansas, as well as countless Trails Carolina reviews from parents, points to yes. The most recent data shows that 98% of students continue to report significantly improved mental health symptoms 12 months after graduating from our program. Learn More
As a residential treatment center, Trails Carolina provides youth the opportunity to switch between a residential setting and a residential camp setting. Many programs provide residential treatment without opportunities for students to practice what it will be like to return home after completing the program. At Trails, we understand the research-backed value of the process of practicing transitions.
Transitioning between physical and social environments helps students transfer skills learned in one setting to the other. This allows for a smoother transition out of the therapeutic setting once a student graduates from the program. There are numerous, evidence-based benefits of residential therapy at Trails Carolina, including:
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Trails saved my daughter’s life. Amanda is an amazing human and a brilliant therapist. I am so grateful to her, Science Steve, and the other wonderful people who could reach my daughter at a time when I could not.
Margot Lowman August 2022
Great life changing experience for our son. After becoming addicted to gaming during covid he was very depressed. At Trails he experienced the wilderness, Science Steve, learning survival skills and top notch therapy and support etc… I highly recommend! This gave our son and our family a renewed family bond full of love and excitement about his bright future.
Winnifred Wilson July 2022
Outstanding clinical work and superb staff! There’s a great culture at this company and it shows with how they engage with families/clients.
Kristin Brace June 2022