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The Mikan program was developed in 1995 and is designed to intervene when traditional outpatient services are not sufficient. The Migisi program has been created for the 5 to 11 year old; with the Muckwa and Mikan programs designed for the needs of the 12 to 19 year old. These programs give the child and family an opportunity to meaningfully change and remain in their home, school, and community. The Mikan programs have been highly successful and allow the student to keep up academically as they gain academic credit while completing their treatment goals. Our day treatment services are provided by licensed and certified therapists who possess not only years of experience working with children, but have formal education in the complex techniques that have been demonstrated empirically to be most effective. Just as it would not be reasonable to trust one’s physical health to a physician who is unlicensed, we believe that all children and teens who are referred for the level of care that characterizes our day treatment programs should have services provided by licensed and certified professionals. Our Day Treatment Programs are built around the most current evidence-based interventions available. We make use of a range of sophisticated and proven tools for helping troubled children and teens, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy approaches, trauma reprocessing and rescripting, play therapy, and a range of other strategies. It is because of the complex nature of these kinds of treatment techniques that we require licensure and certification of our staff. The provision of these sophisticated techniques takes place on a highly individualized basis. Our approach requires three to four staff for the ten to twelve children or teens at each of our sites. This strong staff-to-client ratio allows the close attention and care that is necessary for effective treatment. Our treatment day is just that, a treatment day. We leave the task of education to the experts in our local school systems and focus instead on a very intensive half day of psychotherapy. While we use psychoeducation techniques to help children develop the skills they need to succeed, the cornerstone of our effective treatment approach is intensive therapy provided by licensed and certified experts. In such a personally intense treatment approach, the composition of a group is vital. That is why we separate our groups by developmental stages that fall roughly along the divisions between elementary, middle, and high school, which correspond to our Migisi, Muckwa, and Mikan programs. This division of age groups allows us to tailor the day treatment approaches to the psychological, emotional, cognitive, social, and developmental needs of children and teens on a much more individualized basis than programs that adopt a one-size-fits-all model. And, perhaps most importantly, our treatment philosophy is predicated upon the belief that a large part of our job is helping children and teens find their own way to the desire to change.

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