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Adolescent Residential Program – KARE (Kearny Adolescent Residential Experience)

KARE (Kearny Adolescent Residential Experience) is a community-based residential treatment program designed to assist adolescents with serious psychiatric issues which may have resulted in hospitalization or out-of-home placement.

The program’s goal is to help these adolescents and their families develop better solutions to serious life problems.

Program Highlights

  • Fully supervised 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, residential facility
  • Six- to nine-month intensive treatment program for adolescents between the ages of 15 and 17
  • Home-like setting where a maximum of nine adolescents at a time can take their first step back to their families and communities

Program Specifics

KARE adolescents attend a state-approved school for adolescents with emotional and behavioral difficulties; the school is administered by the Department of Children and Families.

  • Additional program activities include after-school partial care services, and individual, family and group therapy, as well as recreational activities.

  • Depending on individual outcomes, some participants return home to their families, and some may require more long-term residential placement.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Teens (15 – 17 years old) with serious psychiatric disorders

  • Referrals must be made through PerformCare

For more information, please call: 201.998.8882