YOU ARE NOT ALONE. WE CAN HELP.
- Are you the parent or caretaker of an adolescent or young adult who is struggling emotionally, socially, therapeutically, behaviorally, academically, or within your family system? Do you need help finding the very best care and support for your adolescent and family’s specific needs? We can help.
- Are you an adolescent or young adult feeling lost, stuck, hurting, frustrated or overwhelmed in one or more areas in your life, and are you open to exploring a range of supports for your specific needs and goals? We can help.
- Are you a mental health provider and seeking support in finding excellent residential care for your adolescent or young adult client? We can help.
WHO WE ARE and WHAT WE DO
We are a team of highly experienced Therapeutic Consultants who are honored to support families during difficult times. Our primary objective is to assure that the adolescents, young adults, parents and caretakers who come our way receive the very best-matched, high quality therapeutic and educational support possible for their needs. We strive to provide our clients with recommendations to handpicked and well-researched therapeutic programs, services, and educational environments that meet the very specific and unique needs of each client, whether those be short or long-term needs, and regardless of the severity of the adolescent’s or young adult’s challenges. We work collaboratively and closely with families, providers, and programs to help each young person and their parents reach their goals. We serve a variety of roles for parents, adolescents, and young adults:
- Therapeutic Placement Specialists
- Program, service and school “matchmakers”
- Family Support Specialists
- Liaisons and Advocates
- Case Managers
- Guides through challenging mental health journeys
Our ultimate goal is to create the best possible chance for positive and lasting growth and recovery for each of our clients.
Please see OUR TEAM or OUR PROCESS to learn more about us and what we do.
WHO WE SERVE
We work directly with parents, adolescents and young adults. Our goal is to serve the needs of young people ages 10-32, with the majority being ages 13-23. The adolescents and young adults we serve come with a wide range of challenges and unmet goals. Some clients are struggling with the painful disappointments that come with school/college failure, learning differences, anxiety, limited social skills, difficulty transitioning to independent adult living, and family discord; while others may have more severe challenges related to depression, trauma, substance use, elopement, adoption/attachment, acting out behaviors, self-harm, suicidality, and debilitating poorly addressed mental health diagnoses.
Please see OUR CLIENTS to learn more about the ADOLESCENTS and YOUNG ADULTS we work with.
WORKING WITH PARENTS, CARETAKERS and YOUNG ADULTS
Over the last 20 years Educational Connections consultants have served more than 1000 families in making informed and thoughtful decisions about the most appropriate therapeutic and educational settings for their adolescent or young adult. Most commonly it is parents who seek out and engage our services, having heard about us from other families, therapeutic professionals, educators, or finding us online. Families typically come to us in one of several situations:
- Parents have tried numerous outpatient therapeutic and/or academic interventions for their adolescent or young adult, but nothing feels effective or sustainable
- Parents are in need of fairly immediate placement help, as their adolescent or young adult is currently in a short-term acute level of care, such as a hospital
- An adolescent or young adult is already engaged in a residential therapeutic placement, but is needing help finding the next step and supports in their journey, whether that be coming home, stepping down in level of care, or identifying a new lateral level of care because the current placement has not been a good fit
- Parents are just beginning to explore specialized resources for their adolescent or young adult, but the landscape feels cumbersome and scary, and they are unsure where to begin
- A young adult is actively seeking out support in finding appropriate services and resources to help them meet their goals related to mental health, substance use, social skills, academic challenges, young adult living skills, family discord, and transitioning to independence.
“To put it simply, Educational Connections saved my 16-year-old daughter’s life. It was a long, painful process. Without it, though, she probably would not be with us today. And she most certainly would not have graduated high school, graduated college, married an incredible person, be gainfully employed, happy, and giving back. Thank you!”
“This team has been an invaluable resource. They quickly engaged with us and with those most familiar with our son to understand his situation and needs in order to provide us with critical advice and guidance. Their knowledge of available programs, and specific therapists within these programs, led to recommendations that were highly tailored to the needs of our son.”
WORKING WITH REFERRING PROFESSIONALS
We always feel it is a privilege to support families dealing with mental health challenges and crises, and greatly value the opportunity to share that privilege with other clinical, healthcare and educational providers who share our passion. This type of collaboration is so helpful to families. We welcome referrals and collaborative efforts to support families from:
- Hospitals
- Insurers
- Mental Health Professionals/Clinicians
- Residential Treatment Centers
- Therapeutic Boarding Schools
- School Counselors
- Schools/Educators
