Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health – Children’s Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Services

Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health on Boot Road in West Chester, Pennsylvania helps children and youth who have challenges whether they are intellectual, developmental, psychological, or behavioral. They have multiple levels of care for various diagnoses and situations. This includes a center for autism research, day academies, acute inpatient care and community services.

Specific residential programs are available for young adults, youth, and children who are on the autism spectrum. There is another program for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities and cognitive differences. The third residential care program for youth is for behavioral and emotional health challenges, including substance abuse and addictions. This could be an addiction to street drugs, alcohol, prescription drugs, or something such as pornography, social media, or gambling.

Devereux offers the support care level a child or adolescent needs when they need it. For crisis and acute care situations there is an inpatient short term mental and behavioral health unit. For those requiring more support for a longer period of time, there is a residential treatment program.
There are private day schools, day treatment programs, community based mental health services for when a young one leaves intensive treatment, and outpatient services for continued support.

The core curriculum for residential and day treatment educational programs include physical education and health and wellness. It also has the school basics such as science, social studies, English and language arts as well as math and technology.

Programs also include leisure and recreation activities. They have art, music and animal therapy and play therapy which all are integrated into a treatment program based on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. All programming is trauma-informed and evidence-based.