Residential Campus Services

Most of the children and youth who are referred to Damar’s residential campus have experienced multiple previously failed placements and Damar is often their best chance — and last hope — for success.

Residential placement is never the permanent plan for these youth, and our goal is to help them develop the skills they need to achieve success and quickly return to their own communities.

Children come to Damar requiring different levels of care and safety — ranging from high levels of supervision and treatment to less intensive support. Damar provides a full spectrum of innovative and individualized residential services.

The same team of skillful and dedicated Damar employees supports each child’s transition from more structured and secure settings to open campus living and from open campus living to a family setting or independent living in the community.

Damar’s Innovative Residential Services Continuum

Adolescent Boys Services

Young Boys Services

Girls Services

Autism Services

Adolescent Boys Services

“Helping good boys get better.”

Adolescent boys with developmental disabilities are referred to our campus due to the occurrence of severe behaviors including harm or threats of harm to others, harm to themselves or disruptive behaviors in the home, classroom or community. Many have a history of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse and most have co-occurring mental health problems including depression, anxiety, and conduct disorders. Many also have a history of substance abuse.

Our focus is to foster growth and improvement in the following areas:

• Showing respect for self and others
• Making progress in school and attendance
• Encouraging pro-social and peer interaction
• Encouraging positive community, family and staff interaction
• Self- efficacy- making sure our boys know that “I can do it.”

Supports available within Adolescent Boys Services include:

• BASE Services
• Open Campus Services
• Transitional Services
• Community Involvement

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Young Boys Services

“Helping boys get home.”

Young boys with developmental disabilities are typically referred to our campus due to the occurrence of severe behaviors including aggression, harm to others, harm to themselves, or disruptive behaviors in the home, classroom or community. Many have a history of co-occurring mental health challenges, including ADHD, depression, anxiety, sexual reactivity and attachment disorders.

Damar’s Young Boys Services works diligently to identify foster or adoptive homes for those children who do not have traditional family resources, underscoring our ultimate goal of helping boys return to a family home setting.

Treatment in Young Boys Services focuses on achievement and mastery. Children are granted with “do-overs” to teach them positive behaviors and allow them to practice those behaviors until they achieve success.

Supports available within Young Boys Services include:

• BASE Services
• Open Campus Services
• Transitional Services
• Community Involvement

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Girls Services

“Cultivating healthy growth in young women by providing skills and opportunities to create a healthy future.”

Girls with developmental disabilities are referred to our campus for treatment designed to meet their specific needs based on best practice models.

Many of these girls have a history of emotional, physical or sexual abuse, and most have co-occurring mental health problems including low self esteem, post-traumatic stress disorder, or body image, eating or conduct disorders. Other girls may be referred due to the severity of developmental delay and related problems with communication and socialization.

“The Great Eight” Core Values for Girls By focusing on relationship building and values that promote positive character, our girls experience measurable improvements toward the achievement of their individual goals as well as reduced self-injurious behavior and aggressive behavior toward others.

This approach also markedly improves relationships with family and friends, solidifying Damar’s mission for Girls Services: Cultivating healthy growth in young women by providing skills and opportunities to create a healthy future.

The Great Eight building blocks for success include:

• Respect
• Fairness
• Self Esteem/Self Efficacy
• Education
• Responsibility
• Caring
• Positive relationships
• Integrity

Supports available within Girls Services include:

• BASE Services
• Open Campus Services
• Transitional Services
• Community Involvement

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Autism Services

Children on the autism spectrum are referred to Damar for identification, diagnosis and treatment. A typical child with autism had limited communication, extreme behavioral and academic challenges and most require initial behavioral stabilization in a highly structured, highly supervised setting.

Damar’s approach to treatment is focused on five distinct variables:

• Social skills
• Communication skills
• Behavior management
• Functional living skills
• Educational success

Damar’s individualized treatment for children with autism is based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and includes specialized speech, language and communication tools; community and social-setting desensitization; positive behavior supports; medication management; occupational and speech therapies; and adaptive behavior skill development.

Supports available within Autism Services include:

• BASE Services
• Open Campus Services
• Transitional Services
• Community Involvement

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