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Company:AJA Counseling CenterCurrent Opportunities (1) Location(s):8726 W Mill Rd.Milwaukee, WI 53225 Map Location 
Phone:(414) 353-9250Industry:Service IndustrySize:50-99 |
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Company OverviewAJA Counseling Center is a community based social service agency created in 1997 with the goal of serving children and families. Our vision is "to assure that all children in our care are safe, healthy, staying out of trouble, in school and have strong connections with their families and communities."AJA Counseling Center provides services to children and families in four primary areas - residential group home care, behavioral health services, child and adolescent day treatment services and Wraparound Care Coordination Services. RESIDENTIAL GROUP HOME SERVICES Within our residential group home programs, we provide group home services for high-risk adolescent males and females ages 12 to 17, the Teen Living Center I for Boys and Teen Living Center II for Girls. At Bridges of Tomorrow, a shelter facility for adolescent females ages 12 to 17; we operate one of two Assessment Centers for females in Milwaukee County. This is done in partnership with the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare. Bridges of Tomorrow particularly serves children who are in out of care for the first time. Many of the children placed in our supervision present with both mental health and behavioral challenges. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES AJA Counseling Center is a state licensed outpatient mental health clinic which provides both outpatient mental health and in-home therapy to children and families who are coping with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, sexual abuse, family conflict, domestic violence, grief issues, sexual trauma, post traumatic stress disorder, etc. We offer specialized services in clinical consultation, staff development and training and employee assistance work. AJA CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DAY TREATMENT PROGRAM AJA Child and Adolescent Day Treatment Program is the only African American managed, state licensed and Medicaid certified Child and Adolescent Day Treatment Program within Milwaukee County. Our program works with children, families and the community to help children “stay in school, stay at home, and stay out of trouble.” We do this by providing a comprehensive, strength based, culturally appropriate, nurturing, structured, and therapeutically sound program for children. The program serves children ages 6 to 15 or in grades 1 to 8 and has a staff ratio of 1 staff to every three children. The program has a multidisciplinary team that includes a psychiatrist, registered nurse, licensed psychotherapist, art therapist group therapists and mental health technicians. It provides an alternative setting for children to master and practice skills to improve their behavior and their ability to express feelings/ emotions that interfere with their capacity to learn and develop. WRAPAROUND CARE COORDINATION Wraparound Care Coordination provides supportive case management service to families of high-risk children with the goal of helping families to become empowered, remain intact, and remain within their own home and within their own family. Services are provided within the structure of the home and focuses on family strengths and need. |
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