Eastern Oregon Children's Multi-Treatment Center – Unofficial Blog

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EOCMTC’s goal is success for every child and family. Here they continuously evaluate their treatment services and the treatment outcome data researchers collect and strive to improve services. It is doctors’ way to be sure that each child improves in treatment.

EOCMTC is proud of the quality and effectiveness of our treatment services for children and families. Their accreditation guarantees that EOCMTC meets national treatment service and improvement standards for residential centers.

EOCMTC’s treatment improvement rates far exceed the national mean for all children’s residential treatment centers. Multi-treatment approach, using school, home and community as therapeutic milieus integrated with center-based psychiatric services and clinical supervision, is unique among residential treatment centers. Employees know multi-treatment works because children and families who come to them for treatment tell so. State and federal monitoring of treatment plans and documentation of treatment outcomes for each child, using measures such as the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale, confirms their progress.

This graph compares EOCMTC’s treatment improvement rates with all other centers over two and a half years of national data collection by the CHARPP Improvement Measurement Program. The last six months of data shows EOCMTC treatment improvement rates were more then 23% higher than the mean for all centers and 93% higher than low-performing centers.

The Eastern Oregon Children’s Multi-Treatment Center is the only program east of the Cascade Mountains providing hospital level psychiatric care in Oregon. The majority of the children admitted to the Center have come from communities in the 18 counties in eastern, central, and southern Oregon. Of the 241 children admitted to the Center from January 1, 1998 through September 30, 2002, 70 percent are from Oregon communities east of the Cascade Mountains.

The 241 children admitted represent 27.5 percent of the 878 children referred for service. EOCMTC is expanding capacity to meet the increased numbers of children in need of high quality psychiatric treatment services.

Eastern Oregon Children’s Multi-Treatment Center strives to provide excellence in regional, individualized, comprehensive, intensive assessment and treatment to psychologically disordered children and their families while the child is under our care. Treatment includes culturally responsive psychosocial services which promote insight, self-responsibility, healthy family relationships, moral stability, and social competence. EOCMTC’s primary therapeutic model is the cognitive behavioral approach which encourages each child to better understand him or herself as a person, learn to think through challenges, build strengths, and behaviorally practice solutions to personal, academic, familial, and interpersonal problems.

EOCMTC believes that:
1. The child with severe and multiple emotional problems has the right to a therapeutic process designed to increase their individual strengths encompassing their intellectual and creative awareness, developing internal behavioral controls, using effective problem solving techniques, and producing positive membership in their own community.

2. Challenging treatment issues are best addressed by a team of professionals, family and community members. This team uses innovative and creative interventions based on informed, pro-active and mutually agreed upon treatment interventions that are research driven and highly sensitive to client, family, culture, team, and community resources.

3. General systems (community systems) theory presents a valid organizing structure, a broader understanding of human needs, and a greater opportunity for the acceptance of the constancy of change.

4. Therapeutic services are guided by the need for stabilizing behavior and normalizing experiences aid in transitioning children back into their own family and community systems.

5. Children and their biological, adoptive, foster, and/or residential treatment parents are encouraged to assume active roles in the treatment planning process and delivery of services.

6. Cost-effectiveness is not a substitute but an adjunct to quality of service.

7. Restraint should be used only if the child is in danger of hurting himself or others in his surroundings.

8. Medication management is a vital and viable tool in meeting the needs of many of our children and is considered on an individual basis.