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Youth who enter the Residential Treatment Center are often in crisis.
They need immediate help. Many are struggling with overwhelming emotional, behavioral and mental health challenges. Some have experienced trauma, instability, multiple placements or repeated hospitalizations. And more than you’d think, are at risk of self-harm or suicide.
But the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) at Boys Town National Research Hospital, offers them something different — a safe, secure facility with a home-like environment, where the emphasis is on positive coping skills and long-term healing.
“If I had not come to Boys Town, I definitely wouldn’t be alive.”
No youth should have to battle addiction and suicidal thoughts. But for Laura, “It was every day. It was all the time. It was all I thought about.”
Laura had been in and out of six hospitals before coming to Boys Town. She felt something was different on her first day at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) at Boys Town National Research Hospital. It was the way therapists seemed to really see her.
“They noticed. They cared. They helped. Which I had never had before.”
Little by little, Laura began to heal. Today, her story is no longer defined by crisis. It’s full of hope, stability and a future Laura had all but given up on.
A History of Healing
Alzheimer’s treatment works best in the earliest stages, before the damage takes too much away. That’s why early detection is so critical, and why the work happening right here matters so deeply.
The RTC began 30 years ago as a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility in downtown Omaha and has since moved to a larger facility on the Boys Town campus. Here, we help youth ages 5 to 17 who are dealing with:
- Physical or sexual abuse
- Self-injury
- Risk for psychiatric hospitalization
- Problems with authority
- Poor peer relationships
- History of school failures
- Aggression
Right now, another parent is wondering if they’re doing enough to help their child. Right now, another child is wondering if they should just give up. Your support helps give families a more hopeful story.