The August Aichhorn Center for Adolescent Residential Care, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation based in New York State. Established in 1977, the center was created to address the unique challenges of providing long-term care and treatment to teenagers who were unable to be placed in existing facilities. With two residential treatment facilities in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the center served teenagers in custody in the juvenile justice system. However, as of April 2020, both programs have been closed, and the center has shifted its focus to studying and teaching about residential treatment in order to develop improved operating programs.
The center aims to answer important questions about the effectiveness and usefulness of programs like theirs, drawing on their three decades of experience in operating programs for seriously deprived and impaired adolescents. They seek to define and evaluate a program model that addresses the needs of these individuals, for whom long-term care is often the only practical and effective approach. The center has been recognized and referenced in various publications, highlighting their work in the field of residential treatment and their efforts to improve the care provided to mentally ill teenagers in the juvenile justice system.
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