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Lindencroft is a 12 bed intensive treatment residence serving youth who are at high risk for or who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation. Lindencroft is a 1:3 staff-to-youth ratio that supports youth who identify as female/female of center, who are preparing to either reunify home, be adopted, step down to pre-independent living, step down to independent living, and/or age out of the system. Youth are offered a continuum of services in a therapeutic trauma-informed home taking an individualized approach to ensure a successful transition into adulthood.
At a Glance
This service is for
Focus: Therapeutic intensive group home for adolescent females who have established the ability to access support and participate in treatment and are ready to live and thrive in the community.
Age: 12-18
Gender: Female
Capacity: 15
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Abigail Thompson
Program Director
(978) 998-2577
acthompson@jri.org
Approach
Lindencroft provides a stable, safe, and supportive home-like environment for youth who identify as female/female of center/transfeminine, while also allowing them to learn how to safely utilize and integrate into the community. The program works closely with My Life My Choice to ensure that the program always evaluates policies, procedures and best practices from a Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) lens.
Academics
Lindencroft works in collaboration with the Berkley School Department to insure that each youth has an appropriate educational plan and setting. Some of the youth attend local neighborhood schools while others may attend a local day program. Lindencroft also works with the youth who desire a non traditional education. Lindencroft employs a full time case manger to coordinate all educational services. In-house tutoring and MCAS preparation is also avaiable.
Competency Development
Lindencroft provides opportunities for the girls to explore their individual interests in a safe and healthy way. We help identify and support each girl in attending weekly individualized competency building activities such as dance lessons, self defense classes, horseback riding, drivers educations, etc. Our Occupational Therapist assists girls in finding employment and volunteer opportunities within the community to help further develop their individual sense of self and build their confidence.
Wellness
Lindencroft offers a variety of ongoing engaging activities that help support the girls in positive choice, growth, and wellness. In addition to our site-based opportunities, we have memberships at many local clubs and leagues to provide additional healthy and supported recreation, exercise, and team oriented sporting opportunities. This focus on wellness also carries over to our kitchen with the foods we grow, purchase, prepare, and eat.
Clinical
Youth are evaluated according to a natural consequences system guided by the clinical framework of ARC in supporting goal attainment. The youth are also encouraged to spend time in the community in order to learn how to appropriately interact with others and follow community standards.
Staff work with youth daily to help them with a variety of tasks to develop life skills and build positive relationships. All of the activities at the group home are aimed at the ultimate goal of building healthy and safe attachments, developing a positive and cohesive sense of self, developing regulation skills, developing self-sufficiency and building competency for the youth. The formal and informal day-to-day lessons being taught by staff are supplemented with individual therapy, occupational therapy, family therapy and therapy groups designed to teach specific life skills. Additional CSEC prevention and processing groups are offered in conjunction with My Life My Choice.
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