Childrens Home Society
Children's Home Society of Missouri in Saint Louis, MO, is a nonprofit organization established in 2005. They focus on improving the lives of children and families through community mental health support and foster care case management. This organization partners with the Missouri Children's Division to provide essential resources.
Their mission is to enhance the quality of life for children and families facing challenges by offering a wide range of mental health, family support, and child welfare services.
- Offers comprehensive community mental health support to children and families.
- Provides foster care case management services to ensure stability for children in the system.
- Specializes in therapeutic and educational services for biological, foster, and adoptive families.
- Collaborates with Missouri Children's Division to provide essential resources and support.
They address the unique needs of children and families within the child welfare system. Services benefit those in crisis or facing ongoing challenges, particularly biological, foster, and adoptive families.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient treatment can be considered the lowest intensity level of addiction treatment in Saint Louis, MO. It is ideal for early phase addiction or lower intensity addictions. Childrens Home Society peer group support, 12-step programs, and individual counseling are likely to be involved.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy is ideal for addicts who want to focus on themselves. It can also be helpful for those whose withdrawal symptoms are exacerbated by the presence of other people.
Benefits of individual therapy are:
- Access to a personalized treatment plan that focuses on the individual needs of the addict
- More privacy during treatment sessions
- Better personal development through introspection
- Increased self-awareness regarding addictive tendencies in order to avoid relapse
- Greater potential for a long-term recovery plan
- Receiving professional advice and detox assistance from medical staff
Family therapy can help you and your family deal with old issues that may trigger substance abuse. The idea behind family therapy for drug addiction is that you are never fully healed from substance abuse until you’ve healed your relationship with your family, too. To get sober, you need to find a different way to cope with the pain in your life.
This is when a group of people in various stages of recovery meet up and discuss their experiences, triggers, successes, failures, and even alternative therapies! Unlike support groups where everyone already knows each other, group therapy is conducted along side outpatient or inpatient treatment at Childrens Home Society.
Trauma therapy is a clinical process that helps individuals deal with mental stress often caused by traumatic events. The therapist helps the person identify, understand and work through the problem. This is done with the help of talking about it in group or one-on-one counseling sessions.
Therapists use relaxation, role-playing, art, and music to help the person open up about what is bothering them. Some examples include:
- Talking about the traumatic event and how it affected them.
- Helping those who have PTSD to deal with their nightmares and recurring memories.
- Working with individuals to resolve the issues triggering the stress, whether seeing someone who reminds them of what happened or feeling helpless.
The individual is also encouraged to help others that are struggling with similar problems. This often helps them feel empowered and gives them hope.
Trauma therapy is not for everyone; it is usually reserved for people who have recently experienced a traumatic event and struggle to get over it. It is generally done for children, teenage victims of sexual assault, and war veterans.
CBT is a psychotherapy approach and method. [ws-nap-name] people to examine how their thoughts, including habitual harmful and inaccurate thinking, affect their actions. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible thinking leads to poor stress management, which leads to emotional distress.
Similarly, CBT helps people identify and change negative behaviors. It makes you question your perceptions and ask if they are realistic. CBT asks people to examine their behaviors and emotional responses and how they affect their lives. CBT aims to change people’s thinking and behavior to lead a more balanced and healthy life.
Moreover, CBT has been shown to reduce anxiety disorders, depression, and symptoms associated with harmful thoughts or actions.
Those struggling with addiction can benefit from learning certain life skills. It is not as simple as quitting drinking or taking drugs and thinking that the hard part is over. Being sober means living a whole new way of life. Many recovering addicts have found that they need to develop talents like time management, organization, communication skills, socialization skills, and self-esteem to make their life in sobriety work, Childrens Home Society is here to help with that.
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Location & Contact
1167 Corporate Lake Dr
Saint Louis, MO 63132
Phone Number
(314) 968-2350
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Location
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1167 Corporate Lake Dr
Saint Louis, MO 63132 -
(314) 968-2350
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+), Children (0-12), Teenagers
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ModalityFamily, Group, Individuals
Listed May 15, 2021
Updated July 25, 2024
Saint Louis, Missouri Addiction and Treatment
Opioid-related overdoses in Missouri have been increasing steadily for the past three decades. In 2018, more than 1,130 people in Missouri died from opioid abuse. Methamphetamines and marijuana abuse have surpassed opioid abuse in Missouri. Missouri is the number 1 methamphetamine manufacturer in the country with more than 27 meth labs per 100,000 people.
St. Louis, situated on the Mississippi River in eastern Missouri, offers residents a variety of parks, museums, and cultural attractions like the iconic Gateway Arch. The city also boasts a thriving sports scene and an affordable cost of living. While opioid-involved deaths in St. Louis County decreased by 11% in 2022, fentanyl was involved in a significant portion of opioid-related overdose deaths in the county in 2020. St. Louis County had a higher rate of opioid-related overdose deaths compared to other counties in Missouri in 2021.
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