While Akron Children’s Hospital continues to make every effort to ensure the safety of our patients, families, and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, please be aware we will be phone screening all patients with upcoming appointments for COVID-19. The legal guardian of those patients will receive a phone screening. Screening questions are tools designed to prevent the spread of infection and keep people safe. Parents and guardians should accompany patients to the front entrance screening area.
We offer intensive psychiatric services to teens ages 12 to 18 in an outpatient setting. We designed the program to keep teens in the community, out of psychiatric inpatient treatment, and/or transition them from our inpatient unit back home. Our goals are to help teens improve their functioning, develop healthy coping skills, and stabilize their mental status.
Our evidence-based programming provides skills training to increase awareness of thoughts, feelings and behaviors to enable teens to make healthier commitments and choices. Family therapy and education is a core component of our program. Parents and teens learn important skills to help them change problem behaviors, improve interpersonal relationships, and cope with stressful situations.
We also provide psychiatric assessment, medication management and case management. Eligible teens include those experiencing psychiatric symptoms and behavioral problems that cause significant impairment in everyday educational, social, vocational and/or interpersonal functioning.
Our program is 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, during the school year. During summer break, school vacations and school holidays, our program runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. We follow the academic calendar of Akron Public Schools. Family therapy appointments are scheduled with your child's clinician throughout the day or immediately following the program as needed.
We offer several groups throughout the day:
A physician referral is not required. Parents/guardians may call 330-543-5015 (option #1) to make an appointment or for more information.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Medical Director, Partial Hospitalization Program