Adolescent Intensive Outpatient

Our licensed or otherwise credentialed professionals help the client to address debilitating life issues such as depression, anxiety, rage, trauma, conduct or behavioral disorders.  Clients will have an individually designed schedule of individual, group and family therapies.

Groups specific to this track include:

• Boundaries
• Society’s portrayal of intimacy and sexuality has skewed our perspective of appropriate boundaries and healthy relationships.  This group provides tools for understanding and enforcing appropriate boundaries in a healthy, proactive and compassionate way. 
• Anger Management
• This is a Behavioral Anger Management group, incorporating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques (CBT) including: relaxation, cognitive/thought control, communication skills, and breathing/anxiety reduction skills.  Participants explore options that draw on these different interventions, which they can use to develop individualized anger control plans using as many techniques as possible.
• Emotional Support Group for Parents
  • This is a parent support group that serves parents who have teens with emotional and behavioral problems as well as parents of teens with any type of psychiatric diagnosis.

Through proper assessment and strategized intervention, this IOP area ensures all participants a chance at recovery from addictions (12-step based and other models) and teaches how lapses/relapses occur – and how to prevent them.  Participants in this track will have individual, group, and family therapy sessions weekly.  We also offer random urinalysis testing and breathalyzer testing.  Deep tissue Laser Therapy for addictions, an innovative new treatment modality, is also available.

Groups specific to this track include:

• Teen Addictions*
• This is a group for teens who are mired in addiction and are looking to empower themselves to permanently escape addiction’s grip. Participants explore how addictions affect the “self” and people who surround us, learn pragmatic skills for achieving and embracing sobriety and discover tools to prevent relapses.
• Anger Management*
• This is a Behavioral Anger Management group, incorporating Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (CBT); including relaxation, cognitive/thought control, communication skills, and breathing/anxiety reduction skills.. The group presents the participants with options that draw on these different interventions, and then encourages them to develop individualized anger control plans using as many techniques as possible.
• Minors in Possession (MIP)*
• This group is for those under the age of 21 who have possessed and/or been charged with a possession of alcohol or drugs. This group has two purposes; one, to provide support, insight and education to young people who battle with alcohol/drug use and addiction. Secondly, this group meets the state requirements for Minors in Possession Group and certificates can provide a positive influence for those facing charges in court.
• Curriculum is based on a Stages of Change Model and includes what leads to use, anger and anxiety management, communication and problem solving skills, goal setting and resisting pressures to use. Curriculum also includes an introduction to Brain Chemistry; the effects of alcohol/ drugs on the brain, (body, perceptions and emotions), both short and long-term.
• Parents of Substance Using Teens*
  • This group is conducted simultaneous with our addictions group for those under 21 struggling with addictions. This is done in an effort to provide parents with information, insight, understanding and support. Topics covered will include self-care, building trust, emotional regulation, boundaries, monitoring/enforcement, understanding the changes in prevalence and the typical teen users today, and examining beliefs such as guilt vs. kindness to selves.

  *Facilitated by a Certified Addictions Counselor

Lost and Found has extensive experience working with juveniles who have engaged in sexually abusive and problematic behavior. Nothing is gained by pretending this problem doesn’t exist or by condemning the sexually abusive youth to the fringes of society. Treatment starts with intervening and guarding the safety of vulnerable persons and the community - but this is only the first step. We offer a variety of treatment options that utilize therapeutic and supervision strategies backed by the most current evidence about effective treatment for juveniles who have committed sex offenses.
Good Lives Model: The operant philosophy of offense-specific treatment throughout our continuum, Good Lives is based on the belief that juveniles need to build capabilities and strengths to reduce their sexually offending needs.

• PornOut: This six week course is for teens engaged in compulsive and problematic pornography use.  Parents and/or guardians are required to attend the last two sessions of each group cycle.
• Informed Supervision: This is provided for parents, guardians, caregivers and other adults who are responsible for supervising juveniles who have engaged in sexually abusive behavior. The time required for informed supervision training is determined by a number of variables (i.e. the number of class participants, complexity of issues presented) but is usually accomplished in three hours for small groups and eight hours for larger groups. Informed supervision training is conducted in accordance with the Juvenile Standards established by the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board.
• MAPV: This is a structured, intensive, sex-offense specific group therapy process emphasizing the initial stages of the offender cycle.  The group curriculum emphasizes skills such as understanding sexual triggers, breaking mechanisms and the integration of safe boundaries.  Family and support system participation is required to complete this 18 month (on average) group process.
• Accountability Group: This is a twelve week process group where juveniles are challenged to apply what they have learned in treatment in a real-world context. Participants learn to safely integrate their offender identity and to utilize their treatment contracts with greater personal accountability.
• Kid Power (Child Boundaries): Group sessions consist of up to five weekly activities designed to facilitate improved understanding of safe play, body awareness and a developmentally appropriate understanding of healthy sexuality.
• Teen Boundaries: This six week course emphasizes the integration of a safe sexual identity to protect against future inappropriate, harmful, and/or illegal sexual activity.
• Psychosexual Evaluations: All psychosexual evaluations are conducted in accordance with the Juvenile Standards established by the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board.
• Sexting Classes: Offered on an individual or group basis, this psychoeducational process provides youth with a platform to explore the full legal, social, and personal consequences of sexting and other forms of sexualized electronic communication.
• Clarification, Reconciliation, Reunification, and Restitution: These critical elements of the offense specific treatment process are highly specialized and based on the unique circumstances of each client, family and circumstance. Representatives from the former victim’s support system work in coordination with the juvenile offender’s treatment team to assure a safe and orderly resolution to these stages of treatment.
• Relapse Prevention: This two to six week peer-supported group is designed to intervene with youth who have broken elements of their treatment contract but have not yet returned to sexually perpetrative behavior. Firm accountability and containment on all levels is stressed with the goal of returning the youth to normative functioning.
• Community Response Panels (CRP): CRP’s provide a measure of restorative justice as the offender addresses the reality that his harmful behavior has ramifications in the larger community.  The offender presents a detailed and comprehensive overview of his or her treatment process to selected members of the community who then provide feedback in response. Community Response Panels also stand in as symbolic victim representatives when appropriate.