Since its founding in 1994, ECS has placed more than 1,200 clients in programs and schools that address emotional, behavioral, social, learning and addiction related needs.
About ECS
ECS consultants are therapeutic and educational placement specialists who offer advice and guidance to help you make the best possible decisions for your family member. ECS guides the family from the initial choice of an out-of-home placement, through that experience, and finally back home, or on to the pursuit of life goals. We assess each case and prepare recommendations appropriate to each individual client.
Specialty placements require a sophisticated level of education, training, and experience. Our group of highly credentialed professionals has spent decades in education, educational consulting and therapeutic fields.
We are proud of our high percentage of successful cases and our strong and enduring relationships with families, and our high standards of professionalism. We travel continually to expand our knowledge of resources, participate in on-going professional development, conduct self-evaluations, and continually write on topics relevant to families.
We understand the magnitude of our responsibility to families who entrust us with the safety and health of their children. We take our recommendations for every family personally. That, you can count on.
Using ECS
When despite the parents' best efforts, their child continues to spiral downward or is not making significant progress, it may be time to consider an out-of-home placement. Such a placement can be used to accomplish the following goals:
To provide a safe environment away from negative influences
To change family patterns of communication and interaction
To protect a child from harming himself or herself
To provide a more effective educational environment
To assess a child in a controlled, 24/7 environment
To break patterns of dysfunctional behavior
To provide an alternative to court-ordered placements
To regain parental control of a child
What ECS Offers
ECS offers a range of educational and treatment options for our clients. For the school-aged client we recommend schools and programs that address each client's unique educational and therapeutic needs. For our adult clients we recommend programs that address treatment, independent living, career guidance, and/or education.
School-Age Children
These options include programs where each client's cognitive, emotional, social, and physical strengths and weaknesses will be addressed. Most of the time they require leaving home to learn new coping skills, develop new insights and let go of old behaviors. Our consultants go through a deliberate process to identify our client's needs, determine criteria for education and/or treatment, and then to develop a specific plan. Once this assessment process is complete, we are able to recommend a customized spectrum of services, both short- (approx. 4-12 weeks) and long-term (3-18 months). The options include:
Short-Term Programs
Therapeutic Outdoor Programs: Outdoor, clinically oriented and experientially based short-term programs that focus on initial intervention and assessment.
Assessment and Diagnostic Centers: Highly contained, short-term opportunities to focus on neuropsychological/psychiatric evaluation. A sizable medical staff combined with a wide range of formal testing and 24/7 observation.
Long-Term Programs
Therapeutic/Clinical Boarding Schools: Academically-oriented boarding schools with an integrated and balanced therapeutic and student life program.
Schools for children with learning disabilities: Similar to therapeutic/clinical boarding schools but with less focus on traditional therapy and more emphasis on emotional stages of development in a group process.
Residential Treatment Centers (RTC): Highly therapeutic facilities in which treatment goals are the primary focus and individualized treatment planning and intervention are emphasized. Fully integrated services are provided, including psychiatric, clinical, academic, residential and recreational.
Adults
These options focus on helping our over-18 year-old clients move forward with their lives while successfully coping with emotional, social, psychiatric, substance abuse, cognitive or behavioral issues. As with our school-aged clients, we utilize a deliberate process to develop a unique plan for each client. The range of options, both short- and long-term, available for these clients include:
Therapeutic Outdoor Programs: Outdoor, clinically oriented and experientially based short-term programs that focus on initial intervention and assessment.
Independent Living Programs for Young Adult Programs: Programs intended to provide various levels of support and structure for young adults with the goal of 'launching' them into healthy independence -- college, work, and so forth.
Residential Treatment Programs (Psychiatric/Neurological): Highly therapeutic facilities in which treatment goals are the primary focus and individualized treatment planning and intervention are emphasized. Fully integrated services are provided, including psychiatric, clinical, academic, residential and recreational.
Eating Disorder Programs: Specialty programs for those suffering from a primary diagnosis of anorexia, bulimia or binge eating. Increased medical and dietary oversight compared with more general programs
Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs: Short-term programs specializing in the initial treatment of drug and alcohol addiction and co-occurring mental health issues.
Extended Care and Sober Living Programs: Longer term programs specializing in continuing treatment of drug and alcohol addiction and co-occurring mental health issues.
Additional Services
In order to provide our clients with a full spectrum of care, we offer several other services that can facilitate the process and help move our clients forward on their treatment and educational pathways.
Psychological and Academic Assessments: A service where a professional will travel to the client's home to conduct a comprehensive battery of tests.
Interventions: A service in which a qualified/professional orchestrates, guides and mediates a family's effort to intervene on family member's behalf. Interventionists specialize in working with family members and friends of those with addiction or mental health issues to get the client to commit to go into treatment.
Child transport/location: A service utilizing licensed, bonded professionals that specialize in the safe transport or location of youth and young adults struggling with behavioral, emotional and substance abuse problems.
Concierge-level care (cost available upon request)