Hillside specializes in infant, international, and special needs adoptions. Recognizing that adoption is a lifelong experience, Hillside remains a resource for adoptive parents and their children after legalization.
Customized Services
Hillside customizes services to the specific needs and strengths of children, families, and communities. Specialized services can be developed on an as-needed basis.
Day Treatment Education Services
Day Treatment serves youth ages 3-21 who are experiencing school-related and/or family problems. Day Treatment provides a stable, consistent environment where emotional and educational needs can be met. This is an integrated approach to treatment with focus on therapeutic and educational goals.
Developmental Disabilities Services for Youth
Developmental Disabilities Services for Youth seek to treat youth with developmental disabilities, who may also have emotional support needs, within a community-based environment or at home by building a supportive and effective group of services that allow for maximum individual growth and independence.
Home and Community-Based Services
Children who leave the care of Hillside’s foster or residential programs—or those who need assistance while still living at home—may receive some of our home and community-based services. Staff visits to families in the home focus on helping families resolve problems.
Non-Secure Detention Services
Hillside provides care to youth awaiting due process in Family Court. Our specialists evaluate the child, address medical and psychological issues, and provide the court with valuable information concerning the child’s background and emotional health.
Outpatient Treatment Services
At one of our clinic locations, children and adolescents have regular appointments with a social worker while living at home or in foster care and attending school in their home district. Services include crisis intervention, individual/family/group psychotherapy, diagnostic evaluation and assessment, crisis-intervention, and outreach and linkage to community resources.
Residential Services
Children and adolescents who are in need of 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week care and treatment due to the severity of their emotional disturbance live in residential cottages or community-based group homes while receiving individual and family therapy. Highly trained specialists work very closely with children in our care involving their parents in the entire process. Campus Schools provide special education to youth in Hillside's Residential Treatment programs.
Therapeutic Foster Families
Foster homes are available both as alternatives to our residential treatment facilities or as transitional facilities for children who have made progress in residential treatment but are not yet ready to return home. Local foster parents are trained, experienced, and committed to the child and family’s very special needs.
