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Youth Care

Youth Care

  • Draper, UT
  • Accredited
  • Inpatient

Youth Care Treatment Center in Draper, Utah, focuses on comprehensive mental health and substance abuse treatment for adolescents aged 11-18. The center offers a homelike environment with outdoor recreational areas and an on-campus school program, emphasizing mutual respect, personal accountability, and positive reinforcement.

Youth Care's mission is to empower adolescents to make positive lifestyle changes through evidence-based therapies, academic support, and a nurturing environment. It is accredited by the Joint Commission and is a member of NAATP.

  • Provides a home-like setting with separate coed homes and 24/7 supervision.
  • Offers dual diagnosis treatment for co-occurring mental health and addiction issues.
  • Utilizes evidence-based therapies including CBT, DBT, EMDR, and experiential therapies.
  • Features an accredited on-campus school program with certified teachers.

Youth Care specializes in treating mental health issues like depression, anxiety, ADHD, and substance abuse disorders in adolescents. This facility benefits adolescents aged 11-18, providing comprehensive care and support.

  • 4+ Accreditations
  • SAMHSA Listed
  • 21 Conditions Treated
  • Insurance Accepted
  • 6 Levels of Care
  • Speaks English
  • 27 Therapies & Programs

Accreditations

State License

SAMHSA

NAATP

JCAHO

Conditions and Issues Treated

Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment

Using both legal medications and illegal substances in order to maintain an addiction is substance abuse. If you are taking more of your prescription, or earlier than the prescribed time interval between doses than is directed you may be abusing that medication. If you are obtaining legal medications illegally in or near Draper, UT, you may be suffering from substance abuse.

Illegal substances can become addictive after a single use and lead rapidly to substance abuse. The professionals at Youth Care are here to help.

Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment

Opioid addiction treatment helps people addicted to opioids in Utah curb their drug use. The selection of a treatment setting depends on the severity of the addiction. Mild cases are usually treated in outpatient facilities; severe cases need hospitalization or treatment in a residential facility. Doctors use medicines along with counseling and behavioral therapies to treat the addiction. The treatment includes medication, counseling and therapy. It can also include group counseling, individual counseling and family counseling.

Dual-Diagnosis

Conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder are part of mental illness. This may occur that opioid abuse and vice versa are induced by mental illness. Diagnosing a concurrent diagnosis or co-occurring condition at Youth Care is essential to understand the addiction better.

Levels of Care

This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Partial-Hospitalization, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.

Inpatient programs are intensive regimes that require individuals suffering from serious addictions to admit themselves into a controlled environment. Inpatient programs in Utah generally span over 28 days to six months. The first step in an inpatient program is medically assisted detox. Doctors and addiction specialists at Youth Care monitor the individual’s vital signs as the drugs leave their system. Some inpatient rehab programs also provide counseling for family members to provide encouragement and emotional support. In inpatient programs, patients have access to 24-hour medical supervision.

A partial hospitalization program is set up to cover those struggling with acute symptoms of addiction. This means that the individual is cared for in a hospital-like environment in Draper, UT during the struggle of those symptoms, but allowed to go home at night. Most PHPs require approximately six-hours of therapy, at least three days per week.

Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient’s individual requirements.

Aftercare comprises services that help recovering addicts readjust to normal day-to-day Utah activities. It can last a year or even longer. Services include individual and family counseling, medications to reduce cravings, and treatment of psychiatric and other medical conditions. Aftercare support begins once you have completed earlier stages of treatment.

Therapies & Programs

Therapy plays a major role in addiction recovery. It encourages patients to get to the root of their addiction and learn how to better handle the issues that led to using. Therapy can be conducted in group and one on one settings. In Youth Care‘s individual therapy, the patient meets with the therapist in a one on one setting. This allows them to focus on the underlying issues of addiction and come up with solutions to prevent future abuse.

When the whole family is involved, healing can be far more successful. Family counseling involves genetic factors to the family of the addict. This offers the means to cope with addiction and its underlying emotional disorders for loved ones. It is a helpful method for addicts in helping to adjust to sober living.

Attending group therapy at Youth Care in Draper, Utah allows those seeking sobriety to realize they are not alone in their battles. This is when a group of people all in different phases of recovery get together and speak about their battles. They talk about their triggers, their successes, their failures, and the things they can do to get on and stay on a sober path. These sessions also teach life skills, communication, healthy habits, and can include alternative types of therapy.

Trauma therapy allows people who struggled with a past trauma to face the situation and learn to overcome the situation. Many people who went through trauma early on, struggle with addiction later in life. By addressing the trauma and moving past the issues, it can help someone attending treatment at Youth Care in Draper, UT move forward with their recovery and begin to take a better hold of their sober future.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a method of individual and/or group counseling in Draper, Utah that focuses on acceptance and change. It was developed to advance the idea of balancing opposites. It is a coping method of avoiding black and white approach to situations and problems. DBT can be very effective in developing coping strategies for negative emotions and experiences, and is available for patients at Youth Care.
The relationship between the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a patient is explored by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). As an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol in Draper, Utah, it helps to create a balanced response to thoughts and feelings. Effective communication between users and those around them is also encouraged. It is an efficient treatment for individuals suffering from all sorts of addictions, professionally provided by Youth Care.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, shortened to EMDR, helps patients reprocess past events and memories. This treatment offered at Youth Care in Draper, UT can reduce their levels of anxiety and make past traumas easier to overcome, plus it can boost healing. This helps calm many patients down, allowing them to feel more in control and less helpless when it comes to combatting their addiction.

Training someone on improved life skills allows for someone recovering from an addiction to feel more capable at taking care of him or herself. The skills taught at Youth Care in Draper, UT are daily skills that give a better recovery foundation by simply giving someone the tools they need to survive. They include communicating, time and money management, career guidance, and more.

Entering a 12-step program allows people to accept that they struggle with an addiction on their own terms. It breaks down the process into 12-steps that recovering patients can advance as they feel strong enough to do so. This is common in programs like NA and AA, and gives the patient at Youth Care in Draper, Utah the ability to self-help and move forward towards sobriety without feeling rushed.

Contingency management is a way to help motivate someone to remain substance free. It is a process Youth Care uses which involves rewarding positive choices and good outcomes. As humans we are wired to recreate experiences that lead to positive feelings.

Patient Experience

Creative Arts

Creative Arts Therapy, an umbrella term that includes a variety of structured and unstructured therapies, can help addicts in many ways. For example, many addicts have short attention spans and have difficulty focusing on tasks. Creative arts therapy promotes changes in brain function to increase memory and the ability to focus, thus creating a solid foundation for addiction recovery.

Creative arts therapy uses painting, music and poetry to release negative feelings. It is also an effective method of dealing with anxiety and accessing emotions. Integrating feelings and thoughts together is the goal for a more balanced approach to life.

Experiential Therapy at Youth Care

This is a type of therapy that involves activity to recreate situations that may have caused trauma or negative emotions. Experiential therapy at Youth Care in Draper, UT can involve acting, props, arts and crafts, animal care or other tools that may be effective.

This therapy is done on an individual basis and can help revisit and heal from past traumas. Trust between the therapist and individual is important for success. Experiential therapy can help you more closely become you and move through life in a positive and authentic manner.

Payment Options

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  • Health Insurance
  • Self-Pay / Cash
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
  • Sliding Scale
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    Location & Contact

    Youth Care Location and Directions
    Address
    12595 S Minuteman Dr
    Draper, UT 84020

    Phone Number
    (801) 396-5391

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    Youth Care Location and Directions

    Location

    • 12595 S Minuteman Dr
      Draper, UT 84020
    • (801) 396-5391

    Accepts

    • Gender
      Female, Male
    • Age
      Children (0-12)
    • Modality
      Family, Group, Individuals
    Ownership
    Privately Owned

    Listed May 26, 2020

    Updated July 25, 2024

    Draper, Utah Addiction and Treatment

    More than 500 people in Utah die each year from the effects of drug abuse and/or addiction. Substance abuse rates in Utah have seen an upward trend for a variety of drugs. Opioids are involved in almost 70% of all drug-related deaths in the state, annually. In 2014, Utah officials created a Good Samaritan Law to protect drug users who report possible overdoses from being prosecuted themselves.

    Draper, a rapidly growing city south of Salt Lake City, offers a family-friendly environment with abundant outdoor recreation and community arts programs. However, substance abuse remains a concern, with opioid-related overdose deaths increasing by 20% and fentanyl-related deaths rising by 30% from 2020 to 2021 in Salt Lake County, while methamphetamine use among residents also saw a 40% increase during the same period.

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