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Facilities and Services > Draper Youth Ranch
Welcome to Draper Youth Ranch .jpg) Location/Contact Information 13073 Wheatfield Way
Draper, UT 84020
Ph. 801.495.2076
Fax: 801.495.9203
State of Utah Information
Service Code: YSE
Guaranteed Beds: 15
NOJOS: Level 5/Sex-specific Group Home
Agencies Served: Division of Juvenile Justice Services (DJJS)
Program Overview
Draper Youth Ranch is our cognitive behavioral, offense-specific residential treatment home serving male adolescent youth, ages 13-19, presenting as moderate risk as assessed by nationally-recognized risk-assessment tools. Our Draper home provides offense-specific treatment interventions in a therapeutically rich setting designed to mimic a home-like setting rather than an institutional, punitive environment. The intensity of therapy, increased opportunity for milieu intervention and 24-hour supervision of Draper Youth Ranch sets the stage for public safety for the surrounding communities, as well as the necessary amount of treatment for the residing youth.
Treatment Goals
Taken as a whole, the treatment goals for youth residing in Draper Youth Ranch include increases in the youth’s adaptive levels of functioning behaviorally, emotionally, socially, cognitively and psychologically, while lowering risk of reoffense. Additionally, residents of Draper Youth Ranch will experience improvements of executive functioning, social competency and relatedness, use of social skills in demonstrating mastery in their environment, and stabilization of behavior in social, school and home setting.
Draper Youth Ranch also provides adjunct mental-health interventions to address pre-existing mental-health issues and psychosocial problems. Draper Youth Ranch accomplishes this by providing a structure and therapeutic environment that address the youth’s individual issues and need for prosocialization through guided peer and treatment staff interaction. By helping these youth learn to regulate their behaviors and emotions, control impulses, make healthy choices, learn consequences for unhealthy choices, and increase personal accountability, they are able to become more socially competent such that they can successfully reintegrate into the community and establish a healthy support system.
Treatment Modalities and Frequency
As in any of Youth Health Associates’ offense-specific facilities, therapeutic programming for each youth in terms of frequency and intensity varies based upon the individual needs of each youth. Nonetheless, Draper Youth Ranch includes targeted offense-specific programming using individual, family and group therapies. Additionally, the youth are afforded with daily competency and skills development, traditional mental health counseling, as well as medication management services. Each resident receives at minimum of one individual and two group therapy sessions weekly. Our treatment staff are also trained to provide daily Psychosocial Rehabilitative Services for our residents.
Multi-family parent groups and family therapy occurs on a bi-monthly basis. Family therapy focuses on family dynamics and home environment associated with and responsible for maintaining the youth’s misconduct and/or problematic functioning. Key topics of focus in family therapy include appropriate supervision, safety and assisting the youth to manage their risk. Family therapy also concentrates on educating parents/caregivers regarding the youth’s current risk factors, treatment goals and supervision needs. Parent’s are viewed as part of the treatment team, and Draper Youth Ranch’s clinical professionals make a concerted effort to empower them to be an active participant in the youth’s treatment. We do understand that some youth may not have parents, and therefore the term “parent” is used to include caregivers, and/or the primary support system of the youth.
School programming for residents is also based on the individual education needs of each youth, as well as the youth’s risk to the community. School programming may include Sex-Specific Day Treatment, Youth-In-Custody (YIC) classroom, public school, etc.
Graduation Criteria
Prior to youth graduating Draper Youth Ranch, it is essential to develop a consensus between the placement and treatment teams that the goals of treatment have been met. Transition to outpatient services for the youth is appropriate once he has met his treatment goals and graduated the program. Draper Youth Ranch is able to provide effective treatment that allows the youth to graduate the program in approximately 10-12 months, with aftercare and outpatient services lasting an additional 6-12 months depending on the needs of the youth. Lack of treatment progress may result in a recommendation and referral to more intensive treatment and/or supervision, and may also result in increased length of treatment.
Referral Contact:
Brian Garlock, LCSW
801.628.6160
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Mark Tiller |
Mark Tiller, LCSWTherapist
Mark has a Master of Social Work (1998) He is bi cultural and bi lingual (Spanish) allowing him to accomplish therapy in Spanish when needed. Mark has worked with youth since 1989 with extensive experience in Chronic Mental Illness and Cognitive Disorders. He has worked with Valley Mental Health, Benchmark Hospital and other non-profit agencies. Mark has been with YHA since 2001. “I find deep satisfaction working with youth, at both group homes along with the Treatment team. There is a great optimism about the future and lives affected when the youth choose to participate sincerely with the Therapy Model at YHA”. |
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John Garlock |
| John Garlock began working with youth in 1995. His career at Youth Health Associates began in 2009. John has always loved working with the boys and strives to make them each feel cared for. He is currently studying social work at the University of Phoenix in hopes of learning additional tools and techniques that can be used to help the youth get back on track. "I work in this field because of the satisfaction I receive watching the boys mature, learn, and grow." John has been involved in sports his entire life and utilizes these recreational activities to connect with his boys. | |