Residential Care for Children and Adolescents

North Star Behavioral Health provides residential programs for children and adolescents who struggle with psychiatric issues. Our youth residential programs provide a therapeutic milieu for a variety of diagnoses and problems including psychotic and mood disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, anxiety disorders, high risk behaviors and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Residential Youth Programs

North Star Debarr Residential Treatment Center for Girls

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The Debarr Campus is a trauma-focused intensive therapeutic, educational, psychiatric, recreational, and nursing treatment program with an emphasis on instilling hope and building futures. Holistic in nature, the program is attentive to needs of the whole self—the mind, body, and spirit—and, therefore provides a variety of services that enhance the mind, strengthen the body and empower the spirit.

Youth Services

The Debarr Campus name imparts a vision of a boundless journey-an awe inspiring trek—into a vast mountainous terrain filled with magnificent beauty, encouraging challenges, inspiring transitions, and rewarding accomplishments. The mission of the Debarr Campus is to provide therapeutic, educational, and spiritual programming to help the youth and their family along a trek toward abundant healing, abounding growth, and fruitful transition.

Evidence-Based Practices

The Debarr Campus incorporates a variety of evidenced based care practices, such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Bio-Feedback, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Dialectical Therapy.

What We Offer

  • Recreational and leisure skill-building groups
  • Physical training/fitness room and yoga classes
  • Trauma-informed multidisciplinary team
  • Family education and support
  • Individual case management

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North Star Summit Residential Treatment Center for Boys

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The North Star Residential Debarr Boy’s Campus provides psychiatric residential treatment for preteen and teen boys ages 11 to 18. While at the Debarr Campus, a youth will learn healthy social, recreational & life skills, which are needed to be successful in the community and at home. The Debarr Campus is truly the halfway point of a hike up a mountain, or journey to recovery in our program, but it is the graduation point and what a youth would want to achieve at our facility.

Services

Individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, milieu therapy, activity therapy, recreation therapy, medication management, medical care, trauma-informed care, and proper diet.

Evidence-Based Practices

We use elements of the following based on the individual needs of each youth:

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
  • Solution Focused therapy
  • Biofeedback
  • Sensory Integration
  • Leisure Ability Model
  • Adventure-Based Model
  • SAMHSA TRECK
  • Aggression Replacement Training (ART)
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Managing Emotions
  • SELF
  • Trauma-focused CBT
  • Integrative Treatment for Complex Trauma (ITCT)
  • Wilderness-Based emphasis

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There is hope. Let us help.

Call 907-264-3506 if you or a loved one struggles with psychiatric issues or substance abuse. We are here 24/7 to provide no-cost, confidential assessments and discuss treatment options. You may also message us using our online contact form.

Please dial 911 or seek the nearest emergency room if you have an emergency.