About Chester County Intermediate Unit – Downingtown
Chester County Intermediate Unit is a nonprofit organization in Downingtown, Pennsylvania that partners with local schools to offer supplemental services to students k-12. Among those services are behavioral health and mental health services including treatment for substance use disorder.
The primary program they have here for addiction treatment is called Changes. It’s a drug and alcohol addiction treatment program for teenagers with substance use disorder that’s preventing them from thriving in a traditional school. This program has a partial hospitalization level or an intensive outpatient level of care depending on what your child needs.
The program combines direct addiction treatment with schooling and life skills. The goal is to not only help your child overcome their addiction but also give them the skills and knowledge they need to establish a strong foundation for their adult life. They ideally hope to rehabilitate students to be able to return to a traditional school.
During that program, your child will have individual therapy and group therapy for drug and alcohol addiction. They’ll be in a therapeutic environment designed to give them a leg up on life while getting the individualized and attentive schooling they need to succeed.
If your child is struggling with addiction or other behavioral health issues but doesn’t need that intensive of a level of treatment there’s also a program called TEACH. This is a school based treatment program that individualizes your child’s education and provides behavioral health treatment like group therapy.
Clients have widely varying feedback about this facility depending on the services they use. Overall though parents and students alike have found productive and positive help here that has allowed them to create a brighter future for themselves.
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