Continuum Of Care

Who We Serve
CTS specializes in providing services to children and adolescents in southern New Jersey who have been severely abused, neglected, rejected and traumatized by most of the adults in their young lives. They have been deprived of basic necessities and are victims of chaos and instability. They come to CTS hopeless and unable to trust or love. These experiences have caused our clients to be deficient in their ability to understand, tolerate and manage distressing emotional states, and by tradition they are merely "reactive" to their environment.

Our Programs
CTS's continued focus on the most difficult cases has made us experts in understanding the needs of these youth and their families and has enabled us to develop a continuum of care to meet those needs. The CTS continuum includes the following programs:

		Specialty Services is a community-based alternative to residential treatment for children who have a history of trauma, abuse and/or psychiatric disorders and exhibit complex behaviors. The program provides a home-like setting for youth that incorporates life skills development and community and biological family engagement.
		STARS (Special Teens Achieving Real Success) provides a community-based alternative to institutional placement for youth who are developmentally disabled. The program emphasizes teaching functional behaviors.
		Intensive Clinical Services is a multidisciplinary comprehensive behavioral health program that provides extensive services each week to children who reside either in a CTS Treatment Home or in another setting.
		Shelter Care is a 28-day program that houses youth in CTS treatment foster homes within the community. Individualized treatment plans provide comprehensive psychosocial assessments and intensive case management to support family reunification and reduce recidivism in the Juvenile Justice System.
		BASE (Better Access to a Safe Environment) is a program designed to restore dignity, decrease public health risk and increase the wellbeing of children who are being exploited for domestic human trafficking. Services are provided through a therapeutic treatment home model. Professional staff provides resource coordination such as medical, legal and educational as well as counseling, life skills programs and family reunification or independent living.
		TRAIL (Transitional Assisted Independent Living) utilizes a positive youth development model that supports our clients' transition to independence. Services are provided through a therapeutic treatment home model. Interventions focus on life skills, job skills and academic achievement.
		Goldston Family Services reunites families after a child has been removed due to abuse or neglect. Emphasis is on working with the family and includes a full range of services, such as supervised visitation, formal parenting classes, behavioral health services when needed, effective communication classes, life skills classes, to substance abuse treatment and the availability of mentoring.
		Functional Family Therapy specializes in family intervention for at-risk and juvenile justice involved youth. The program is a replication of a state-of-the-art and highly successful family intervention program that has been named by the US Surgeon General as a model program for seriously delinquent youths.
		Outpatient Service with Psychiatric Evaluation, Follow Up and Medication Management This program is the least intensive component of the CTS continuum of care. It is intended to serve youth and families that are stepping down from other CTS services and are in need of supportive clinical services on
		FAST (Family and Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment) provides traditional outpatient and intensive outpatient services to youth who struggle with alcohol/drug use. Services are individualized and goal oriented.