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The following criteria should be used to determine if Cunningham Children's Home is an appropriate residential treatment center for a child or youth based on his/her clinical history. Cunningham intake staff members will complete an assessment prior to the youth being admitted, which will include a thorough review of written materials and interviews with referring agencies, the potential client and his/her parent(s).
Danger to Self
- Children with a history of suicidal or self-injurious behaviors who have not demonstrated the behavior recently (within the past 30 days).
- Children with recent but not acute suicidal ideation or gestures and/or children who have demonstrated self-injurious behavior without suicidal ideation or intent recently or are currently.
- Children who currently and actively demonstrate suicidal ideation and intent. These children may be in and out of psychiatric hospitals but are able to return to a residential setting.*
Danger to Others
- Children with a history of aggressive behavior or verbal aggression towards people and animals.
- Children who demonstrate an occasional or moderate level of aggression towards others.
- Children who demonstrate a frequent or dangerous (significant harm) level of physical aggression to others indicating an ongoing and immediate risk to others. *
Elopement
- Children with no recent history of running away but express thoughts about escaping the present living situation or treatment; and may occasionally threaten to run away or have a lifetime history of running away, but not in the past year.
- Children who have run away from home or a treatment setting at least one time within the past year, including those children who have run away to a parental or relative home in the past year.
- Children who have a recent history of running away and have been gone overnight two or more times in the past 30 days.
Sexually Inappropriate Behavior
- Children who demonstrate a mild level of sexually inappropriate behavior beyond what would be considered developmentally usual and expected, such as inappropriate sexual touching. In some cases that behavior could be trauma reactive (e.g., a reenactment of their own victimization).
- Children with a moderate level of sexually inappropriate behavior, such as frequent and extensive mutually consensual sexual activity with same age peers and/or chronic public masturbation. Such behavior is problematic but not abusive since it does not involve coercion or exploitation of power.
Social Behavior
- Children with problematic behavior that includes occasional inappropriate comments to strangers or unusual behavior in social settings.
- Children with problematic social behavior, such as cursing in public.
- Children with problematic behavior of a frequent and serious nature, such as threatening strangers.*
Crime and Delinquency
- Children with a history of criminal or delinquent behavior and who may have recent (i.e. within past 30 days) status offenses.
- Children who have participated in criminal activity within the last 30 days, such as committing crimes such as vandalism and shoplifting
Fire Setting
- Children with a history of setting fires over one year ago.*
Additional Acceptance Criteria
- Minimum IQ of 55
- Consistent need for assistance with daily living activities such as communication, hygiene, self-care, recreation.
- Special education needs, including aggression at school*
- History of substance abuse that requires treatment and impairs but does not completely preclude functioning in an unstructured setting.*
- Severe depression/anxiety
- Severe oppositional defiance disorder (ODD)
- Disturbance in thought process who meet the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for psychosis, but whose psychosis is not extreme.
- Regular, chronic, and severe symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
- Borderline Personality Disorder.
- Moderate and occasional episodes consistent with Conduct Disorder, such as as planned aggression.
- Children with life-threatening physical or medical problems.*
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