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Residential Treatment and Transition Program for Young Women (18-24)
At Fulshear, we begin with the end in mind: a life of healthy independence and self-sufficiency for each of our graduates. Many young women come to Fulshear having struggled with a myriad of complex emotional and psychiatric issues. They leave Fulshear, however, prepared to step into an adult life built around their strengths and passions.
For all young women, but especially those who have dealt with trauma, drug and alcohol abuse, and/or mental illness, finding their place in the adult world can be daunting. Our combination of clinical expertise and strengths-based experiential programming helps young women emerge into adulthood with the vision, confidence, and skills required for independence.
How we do it…
In addition to utilizing the most clinically sophisticated treatment approaches available for young women, Fulshear’s multi-disciplinary team employs an experiential, graduated curriculum of life-skills, academics, vocational training, internships, and work. This is complemented by a robust family program to help parents and siblings understand and support this critical transition. Within the basic structure of the program, every Fulshear student is eventually empowered to create her own personalized program based on an emerging sense of self, personal interests, and future goals.
The Ranch
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The Apartments
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The Real World
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Our program begins with a two-phased program of intensive therapeutic work, experiential life-skills training, and equine therapy on a beautiful Texas horse ranch.
During Phase One in this tranquil setting, students stabilize, heal, and begin to discover their life’s passion.
During Phase Two, students practice the skills they need for independence and construct a realistic plan for an exciting future—a future built around their unique set of interests and abilities.
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When ready in terms of emotional health, personal vision, and hard skills, our students move into apartments in the town of Sugar Land, Texas, about twenty miles from the ranch. In this vibrant Houston suburb, they experience the independence of college students, but with the direct support of clinicians, staff, and peers who know them well.
While navigating the challenges and joys of interdependence during Phase Three, students construct a clear strategy for their next step—independent living in the real world.
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When students graduate from Fulshear they are typically prepared to step into an interdependent life that they have created and are passionate about.
Because the program they completed at Fulshear was tailored to their own passions and abilities, life after Fulshear looks different for every student. All successful graduates, however, are living a highly personalized combination of college and/or work, healthy recreation, and self-sufficiency.
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Who we are…
Fulshear Ranch Academy is designed to meet the developmental needs of young women who have already turned 18 and are emerging into adulthood. Our professionals are selected for their clinical sophistication and talent with this population; they undergo continuous training in the most effective educational, therapeutic, and transitional approaches available for young women. Fulshear Ranch Academy is a proud member of InnerChange, the only family of treatment programs dedicated to the study, application, and advancement of treatment approaches designed expressly for adolescent girls and young women.
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Even if you are a fiscally responsible adult, don’t expect that ethic or skill set to automatically transfer to your young adult. Culture is too powerful a force to overcome by passive example. We have to actively teach our young adult children financial literacy and discipline. If we don’t, we’ll be taking care of them when we’re old, instead of the other way around!
By getting to know themselves so well on so many levels and by developing a confident voice, our students graduate better equipped to pursue the right circumstances for their own continued success. That’s true self advocacy.
What is the ideal interplay between academics and treatment in a residential treatment program? Should they be treated as separate programs? Should they be integrated? Is one more important than the other?
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