Program Description

The Kresge Unit at Edgewood Children’s Center offers an alternative to hospitalization for children and adolescents who are in need of intensive stabilization in order to maintain placement in their current living environment. Through this secure, intensive unit, we are able to offer a higher level of normalcy than a traditional hospital unit, while still providing the utmost in acute, intensive treatment for the client.

Children and adolescents can be referred to the Kresge Unit through local psychiatrists and counselors, community case workers and individual parents with private insurance.

Treatment model

Clients benefit from a completely structured day, including a full school day, intensive treatment services provided by a Master’s level licensed clinician and structured activities for the remainder of the day. Psychiatric services and a 24-hour nursing staff are available each day. The unit houses children and adolescent males and females for up to one month. Our goal is to stabilize while providing a continuation of education in the process. We strive to increase the feeling of normalcy the client has while in treatment, with a full school day, dressing out in regular clothes and regular, flexible visitation and therapy with the clients’ families.

Services Offered

• acute, psychiatric stabilization
• 24-hour nursing support
• a highly-structured, safe environment
• private rooms
• therapist support
• family involvement in the stabilization process
• flexible visitation
• Master’s level licensed clinicians
• daily classroom activities
• a safe, convenient location in Webster Groves

Contact
Laura Albers
Interim Clinical Director
(314) 968-2060 ext. 4756
(314) 919-4895 fax