Counseling Services

Counseling services are conducted by trained clinicians (most are Master's level) and supervised by licensed clinicians (LMHC). Services are available in-home individual and family therapy, in-school assessment, individual and /or group therapy and consultation. Individual and marital therapy for parents are available as needed to enhance treatment of the client. Services also include behavioral system reconstruction. 2-STRIVE caters to individuals, couples counseling, family mediation and Christian counseling.

Typical service duration is 1 to 2 hours per week.

Mentoring Services

What is it? Mentoring -- from the Greek word meaning enduring-- is defined as a sustained relationship between a youth and an adult. Through continued involvement, the adult offers support, guidance, and assistance as the younger person goes through a difficult period, faces new challenges, or works to correct earlier problems. In particular, where parents are either unavailable or unable to provide responsible guidance for their children, mentors can play a critical role.

The two types of mentoring are natural mentoring and planned mentoring. Natural mentoring occurs through friendship, collegiality, teaching, and counseling. In contrast, planned mentoring occurs through structured programs in which mentors and participants are selected and matched through formal processes.

What does the research say? Arlene Mark of New York City's I Have a Dream program observed, "We will only know who can be helped or what is the right kind of mentoring, when we try it." (Flaxman and Ascher 1992) In an evaluation of Project RAISE, a Baltimore-based mentoring project, McPartland and Nettles (1991) found mentoring had a positive affects on school attendance and grades in English but not on promotion rates or standardized test scores. Another evaluation (Cave and Quint 1990) found participants in various mentoring programs had higher levels of college enrollment and higher educational aspirations than non participants receiving comparable amounts of education and job-related services.

Treatment Specializations

• ADD
• ADHD
• Anger Management
• Anxiety Disorders
• Conduct Disorders
• Family and County Mediation
• Family Systems/ Origin Issues
• Mood Disorders
• Social Competency
• Substance Abuse Issues
• Truancy
• Organizational & Environmental Consulting
• Mentoring

Group Specializations:

• Anger Management
• Parenting
• Substance Abuse

Anger Management Group

Anger management has one major goal for the participants: constructive management of their anger responses. Achieving this goal means making changes in thoughts, feelings, and behavioral responses to provocations that stimulate an anger response.

Typical group meets for 1 hour, once a week for 9 weeks. (Includes a clinical assessment of behavior screening)

Parenting Group

Objectives are as follows: 1. To sensitize parents to the impact of their own behavior on their child's developing self-concept.; 2. To alert parents to the potential effects of alternative forms of discipline.; 3. To teach parents the skills required to successfully employ appropriate principles of behavior modification.

Group meets for 1 hour 15 minutes, once a week for 10 weeks. (includes a pre and post assessment)

Substance Abuse Group

The purpose of this group is to ignite change through experiential and behavioral processes. These processes of change fall into two groups. The first group which is the experiential processes. It focuses on internal thought processes and how a person views his or her situation. These processes are most relevant in the early stages of change. The second group which is the behavioral processes focus on action and behavior, and is more important in the latter stages of change. All of these processes are important elements in the movement through the stages and are critical in order to help people "do the right thing at the right time."

Typical group meets for 1 hour, once a week for 14 weeks (Experiential processes); the second process which is the Behavioral process meets for 1 hour for 15 weeks.

(Includes SASSI assessment: pre and post)

Accepted Insurance and Funding Sources:

• Amerigroup Insurance (MedicAid)
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin
• Children's Medical Services
• Comprehensive Behavioral care
• Harmony Behavioral Health Insurance (MedicAid)
• Florida Healthease
• Florida Healthy Kids
• Florida Staywell
• Florida Wellcare
• FSPT (CHS and HSA)
• Healthease Healthy Kids
• Medicaid Waiver Program
• Private Pay
• TANF
• Tricare: Humana Military Healthcare Services