About Us - The Crittenton Family of Agencies
Crittenton Children's Center, Saint Luke's Health System - Kansas City, Missouri
Founded as the Florence Crittenton Home and Mission in February of 1896 the Crittenton Children’s Center has been continuously providing services since then. Today nestled on a 96-acre campus just outside of Kansas City, Crittenton Children’s Center is a faith-based, not for profit organization dedicated to providing the highest quality innovative behavioral health services to children and families as part of the Saint Luke’s Health System.
Crittenton Children’s Center is the Kansas City area’s premier provider of psychiatric care for children, adolescents, and their families. The center’s highly trained professional staff works intensively with children and adolescents to help them achieve stability and positive mental health, and acquire the skills and capabilities they need to be contributing youth and adults.
Programs & Services
Crittenton Children’s Center’s comprehensive system of care includes:
- A comfortable and secure 46-bed psychiatric hospital for children ages 5–18;
- An intensive residential treatment center that can accommodate up to 73 patients;
- A special residential unit for highly aggressive adolescent males;
- Community-based treatment homes and apartments for chronically mentally ill older adolescents;
- An intensive outpatient chemical addiction program;
- In-home treatment and case management;
- Intervention programs located in area schools;
- Foster care case management;
- An outpatient clinic serving children and adults in Blue Springs, Missouri.
Psychiatric Hospital–offers acute inpatient care under the direction of a psychiatrist, who works with a multidisciplinary team of behavioral health professionals and a 24-hour registered nurse. Together, they help youth understand their problems and learn to manage their emotions and behaviors including anger control, conflict resolution and communication skills.
Residential Treatment–is designed for youth who need a structured, safe and secure environment. Adolescents in this program have long-standing problems that often have resisted management in other programs. They participate in school sessions, individual, group and therapeutic recreational activities such as Horticulture Therapy or the Healthy Living program.
Community Based Services–as a child-placing agency for the state of Missouri, Crittenton provides case management services to children and their families in the foster care system. Staff works to reunify children with their families or provide permanency through guardianship or adoption.
Individualized Supported Living Programs–offer treatment for adolescents in community-based settings. Each resident has a treatment plan focused on his or her individual needs. The programs are designed for youth who cannot function in a traditional residential care and/or are in need of a small group setting.
Addiction Services–offers a full range of services provided by certified counselors to help clients and families recovery fro problems such as chemical dependency, co-dependency, eating disorders and compulsive gambling.
Blue Springs Outpatient Clinic–provides assessment and treatment services for behavioral, emotional and learning problems.
For detailed information about this agency see:
www.saintlukeshealthsystem.org/slhs/Locations
