Community Treatment Solutions (CTS) was established in 1990 to address the needs of children and youth who have been abused, neglected and/or abandoned by the adults in their lives and is dedicated to serving the most at-risk youths in New Jersey. We serve over 450 youth and their families in a variety of clinical intensive and specialized community-based services. Strengths-based and mission-driv
en, with youth in group and treatment homes throughout South Jersey, CTS is also the only NJ agency to have a program for youth who are victims of human trafficking and the first NJ agency to offer a community-based alternative to institutional placement for youth who are developmentally delayed. Our Programs
CTS's continued focus on the most difficult cases has made us experts in understanding the needs of these youth and their families and has enabled us to develop a continuum of care to meet those needs. The CTS continuum includes the following programs:
Specialty Services are community based group homes that are an alternative to residential treatment for youth who exhibit intense and complex behaviors, which may be the result of trauma, abuse and psychiatric disorders. STARS (Special Teens Achieving Real Success) provides a community-based alternative for developmentally delayed youth who are also experiencing mental health disorders. Intensive Clinical Services (ICS) is a family-based approach for DCP&P (Division of Child Protection and Permanency) involved youth who live either in their own home or in a CTS therapeutic home. Shelter Care is a 28-day program that houses youth in CTS treatment foster homes within the community, designed as a temporary arrangement until a more permanent one is found. Individualized biopsychosocial assessments and intensive case management is provided, in order to support family reunification. ASPEN is a community group home that serves 13-17 year-old females, who present with co-occurring mental health and substance use diagnoses. BASE (Better Access to a Safe Environment) is intended to restore dignity, decrease risk and increase the wellbeing and self-worth of children exploited by human trafficking. Community Based Group Homes are home-like settings for youth, where services are based on a trauma-informed approach to assessment, treatment and the environment. TRAIL (Transitional Assisted Independent Living) supports youth who are aging out of the child protection system by helping them transition to independence. TSV (Therapeutic Supervised Visitation) provides therapeutic supervised and progressive visitation between birth parents and their children with the goal of family reunification. Goldston Family Services gives families new tools, mentoring and support, which enable parents to improve their coping and parenting skills. Surgeon General-recommended program for delinquent and at-risk youth. Treatment is short-term, reduces recidivism and involves family members in the treatment process. Outpatient Mental Health Services is the least intensive on our continuum of care. Services include individual therapy, family therapy and couples therapy. CTS-ART (Academy of Research and Training) represents a more focused, organized and directed training program, which involves trainers within CTS who have been recruited to participate in a "train the trainers" program conducted by an outside expert. This select group is qualified for internal programing, as well as for overseeing and marketing training programs in the community. CTS-ART trainers are also serving as an ad hoc research ethics board.
