Our History
Community Treatment Solutions, Inc., (CTS) is a non-profit organization incorporated on March 26, 1990. CTS was initially created as an outgrowth of the Division of Youth and Family Services' search for a "better way" to serve the needs of abused and neglected children and adolescents who had exhausted every existing avenue of intervention and were facing expensive out-of-community residential placement. Additional intensive treatment and trauma assessment programs for at-risk youth have been added to CTS' programs since 1990. CTS now provides a continuum of care addressing the behavioral needs of youth across New Jersey.

Our Mission
Community Treatment Solutions is dedicated to providing a continuum of services to children, adolescents and their families. Our programs are structured to be clinically intensive, quality driven and strengths based. Programs support our clients in attaining skills to overcome barriers to productive life functioning.

Our Vision
Community Treatment Solutions will be recognized as a premiere community agency. We will always be innovative, focused and compassionate. With our partners, we will change the world, one child at a time.

	We are culturally competent
	We are ethically and professionally guided
	We operate with integrity and accountability
	We respect and encourage creativity and cohesiveness within the organization
	We enjoy our work and have a sense of humor
	We emphasize that our employees are our greatest asset
	We are committed to partnering with stakeholders within our communities.

Core Expertise
CTS has historically specialized in working with youth who are at risk for out of community placement. These youth have had multiple failures in other settings or may be ready to be reintegrated into the community from residential programs. Our work with this population is the cornerstone of the CTS mission and has reinforced our core expertise—strengths-based, multi-disciplinary and multidimensional individualized interventions for youth who present with complex issues. This individualized approach, which has been the hallmark of CTS services throughout our 15-year existence in New Jersey, requires expertise in child development, cultural diversity, psychosocial needs assessment and service planning. CTS is an expert in implementing state of the art and flexible interventions that involve traditional and nontraditional resources and stakeholders in the youth's welfare.

Accreditation
Community Treatment Solutions received accreditation by the Council on Accreditation in 2006. The Council on Accreditation developed Contextual Accreditation™ as a strategy to strengthen, measure, and validate organizational effectiveness. To make this strategy effective, Contextual Accreditation focused on Community Treatment Solutions' unique mission, resources and culture, as well as the unique needs and aspirations of the people we serve. Seeking accreditation for the first time, CTS received absolutely no deficiencies or recommendations, our accreditation was subsequently expedited through the COA process. COA accreditation attests that CTS meets the highest national standards. It also provides assurance that CTS is performing services which the community needs, conducting our operations successfully, and managing funds effectively.

	To serve as a community based alternative to institutional and out of home placement
	To prevent symptom/behavior exacerbation and stabilize crisis
	To identify and use client strengths and support acquisition of new skills
	To increase the family's connection to natural, community-based resources and supports
	To coordinate services and resources in order to eliminate obstacles to productive functioning

Philosophy of Care
From its inception in 1990, CTS has specialized in working with children and adolescents who have exhausted most of their resources for remaining in their homes. Our clients' behaviors have overwhelmed their families', schools' and communities' ability to support them or respond to them in a meaningful way. CTS understands the complex nature of these behaviors. CTS embraces a systemic approach in our interventions to enable clients to function in the least restrictive environment.

Many of our clients have experienced severe abuse, neglect and abandonment. They have been deprived of basic necessities and are victims of chaos and instability. 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 understanding of the clients we serve has strengthened our commitment to them and facilitated the development of our community, strengths-based and family-focused philosophy of care. This philosophy is guided by the following:

	Youth require safety, stability and consistency in their daily lives in order to facilitate problem solving.
	A client's needs must be addressed in every area where there is an obstacle to the client's achievements.
	Treatment must be individualized.
	Treatment planning must include client participation and be done in collaboration with stakeholders in the client's welfare.
	Each client belongs to a family regardless of the family's functioning. This family is relevant to the client.
	CTS acknowledges that the child's acting-out, self-destructive and withdrawing behaviors are a way of coping with an overwhelming internal state or life situation.
	Interventions take place in the client's natural environment and focus on generalizing life skills.
	Clients have strengths and resiliencies and are able to change.