| Therapeutic After School and Summer Program (TASP)
Ages 10-14
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Program Description
TASP is an experiential therapeutic group program targeted to kids who are having current or emerging emotional and/or behavioral challenges. TASP focuses on achieving three key outcomes: 1) Improved self-control; 2) Improved communication and problem solving; and 3) Increased respect for self and others.
Program Components
- Strengths-Based - Kids and families learn to focus on what they are doing right and how their unique strengths can help them through difficult times.
- Family Activities - Meals, family groups and parenting classes
- School Connections - Staff communicate regularly with school personnel and transportation from some local schools is available
- Commitment - Families make a twelve-week commitment to the program with progress evaluated
in the middle and at the end of the twelve weeks.
- Fee - The fee for the program is $20 a week and scholarships are available.
Hours of Operation:
Kids arrive at our center at 4:00 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays. Pick-up time on Wednesdays and Thursdays is at 7:00 p.m. On Tuesday evenings, families join us from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for parent education, dinner and a family experiential group.
Who should you refer?
- Kids who need a safe place to practice pro-social skills in a group setting
- Kids with current or emerging emotional and behavior challenges
- Kids who are truant, suspended, have behavioral referrals, or low commitment/achievement in school
- Kids associated with delinquent/aggressive peers
- Kids who have difficulty solving problems
- Kids who are depressed or anxious
- Kids who experience family conflict or difficulties
- Kids with motivated parents who are willing to participate
Who would the program not target?
- Kids who show a reoccurring pattern of physical aggression
- Kids who have aspergers/autism or need more specialized treatment
- Kids with significant developmental or cognitive delays
- Kids suffering from psychoses or who are a danger to self or others
- Kids who are involved in substance abuse to the extent that they are consistently intoxicated and could not participate meaningfully in TASP
For more information, call the TASP Director Fred Lines at 214.916.4015.
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