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Residential Services

Residential Services provides a safe, home-like residential program supporting foster and adoptive families when youth need specialized care. The Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program provides 24/7 care and services for foster youth, AAP youth, and nonminor dependents age 12-18 who may benefit from additional structure and mental health support.

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Each person receives comprehensive trauma-informed care tailored to their individual physical, social, emotional, developmental, and educational needs, while also ensuring they have as many healthy childhood experiences as possible.

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Residential Services is licensed to serve non-ambulatory youth and youth with special healthcare needs.​

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Services

  • Licensed Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP)

  • 24/7 care, crisis intervention, and support

  • Therapeutic rehabilitation and recreation programs

  • Individual and group counseling

  • Psychiatric evaluation and medication management

  • Full time and on-call nursing services

  • Education evaluation and school placement

  • Healthy leisure and cultural trips

  • Supervised visits with supportive family members

  • Life, social, nutrition, and career guidance

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Program and Facility

  • Casa Kids are housed in four cozy, home-like cottages with kitchens, common living areas, patios, and laundry facilities

  • Outdoor play areas, basketball court, walking trails, gardens, library, and activities room

  • The program can house up to 32 participants

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Eligibility

​Residents are referred by a Child Welfare Social Services worker, a probation officer from San Diego County or other counties that Casa de Amparo has contracts with, or by a family participating in the Adoption Assistance Program. Clients do not pay fees for the program.

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