Silver Oak Academy (SOA) provides trauma-responsive, evidenced-based clinical services and strengths-based programming for up to 24 male youth (aged 14-18) with high acuity mental health needs, and may present with diagnoses including ADHD, PTSD, bi-polar disorder, ODD, or other trauma-related diagnoses. Young people from Maryland and across the country are accepted into SOA, which provides long-term continuing services within an Integrated Care Model to youth presenting emotional and/or behavioral conditions requiring a high level of on-site therapeutic care and intense structures supervision, behavior management and clinical intervention.
Improving the Lives of Youth
SOA is improving the lives of youth through the provision of trauma-certified treatment, including individual and group therapy, family therapy, medication management, crisis intervention services, positive youth development, life skills development, pro-social recreation activities, arrangements for educational service provision, and comprehensive health services. In addition, these youth receive 24-hour residential care and supportive services that focus on family permanency and community reintegration.
