Project
Mountain Ridge Group Home
Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Jeremy Baumbach
Contact Person: Tome Gibbs, Director, Mountain Ridge Group Home, phone: 867-667-8810; email: tgibbs@polarcom.com
Start/End Date: 1996
Location: Whitehorse, YK
Funding: Independently operated by In Reach Programs for Youth, under contract to the Department of Family and Children’s Services, Yukon Health and Social Services
Description: Mountain Ridge is a four-bed, long-stay group home for male adolescents who are intellectually disabled and who have been in trouble for sexual offending behaviors. Most youth have FASD, but this is not an admission requirement. Mountain Ridge has been in operation since 1996, with the current treatment program beginning in 1999. While Mountain Ridge’s primary purpose is over the years various data have been collected for clinical purposes and in an attempt to assess the program’s effectiveness. Of particular interest are objective measures of sexual interest patterns and changes in them over time, and recidivism rates based on (unfortunately) informal follow up. Over the last couple of years we have been working to pull together a battery of measures to assess youths’ functioning at admission and discharge, and have been gradually making this battery a standard part of our procedures. Due to our small numbers and slow turnover limited data have been collected to date, but over the next few years we will start to see more substantial numbers.
Time Frame: ongoing
Type of Project: demonstration
Population Served: urban remote
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