Clinical Team

Renovo's clinical team consists of male and female psychotherapists is specifically trained to help young men struggling with sexual abuse and inappropriate behavior problems.

Treatment Focus

Renovo’s goal for each youth at Renovo is to eliminate inappropriate sexual behavior. To accomplish this each buy will focus on:

• Healing – Youth will examine the beliefs, feelings, and experiences that resulted in problematic behavior and resolve the issues that contributed to the problematic behavior.  

• Accountability: youth will overcome denial and accept responsibility for his behavior.

• Self Awareness: youth will enhance his ability to discuss and monitor the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that contribute to a pattern of harmful sexual behavior.

• Empathy Development: youth will increase his understanding of the impact sexual behavior has on others, especially victims.

• Relapse Prevention Planning: youth will develop techniques and coping strategies for managing harmful sexual impulses.

• Personal Enrichment: youth will develop relationship boundaries, clarify values, enhance maturity, learn to manage his anger, address substance abuse issues, and improve social and relationship skills.

• Family Involvement and Healing: Parents are encouraged to support the youth while in treatment and families will have the opportunity to go through a healing process.  Parents are invited to participate in their son’s therapy via telephone on a weekly basis and are encouraged to visit frequently. youths at Renovo will also go on therapeutic home visits designed to prepare for a successful transition at the completion of the program.

Therapy Components

• Individual Therapy: Each youth will meet with his therapist a minimum of one session per week. The focus in individual therapy sessions will be on sexually specific and related treatment issues. The therapy plan for each youth will be individualized to meet his specific needs.

• Family Therapy: Once a week, parents will be contacted by their son’s therapist to discuss treatment progress. At times, the parents will be invited to participate in a therapy session with their son over the phone. These sessions will focus on issues specific to the family, such as family communication, relationship building, boundary clarification, risk management, and relapse prevention.

• Group Therapy: Group therapy is the most effective means of working with adolescents. Group therapy sessions are held at least two times weekly and focus on illegal and harmful sexual behavior and related themes. The groups are intense and incorporate innovative therapeutic techniques aimed at facilitating change within a supportive and positive peer environment.

• Therapeutic Home Visits: When a youth reaches the appropriate level and is deemed ready by his therapist, he will be eligible for a home visit. The purpose of all home visits is therapeutic and is designed to prepare a youth and his family for reunification. Prior to a home visit, the youth, his parents, and his therapist will establish therapeutic goals which he will work on during the visit. Home visits will serve as useful tools to evaluate each youth’s progress, based on how he presents himself in his home environment. This behavior will be discussed and evaluated following each youth’s home visit.

• Equestrian Program: Renovo youth will participate in an Equestrian Program where they will learn basic horseman skills including; feeding, grooming, hoof work, haltering, saddling, training and safely riding. The purpose of Renovo’s equestrian program is to provide youth with the opportunity to increase their communication skills, team work, empathy, work ethic, problem solving, assertiveness, and to have fun.

• Psychiatric Evaluation: If needed, evaluations are available for prescribing medication. Regular scheduled laboratory work and consultation with a psychiatrist is available as required for monitoring medications.

• Psychological Evaluations: If needed, evaluations are available as necessary to evaluate individual treatment needs.

Residential Living

Life Skills Training

Throughout a youth’s stay, he will have the opportunity to gain independent living skills in the areas of:

• Money Management – learned by earning daily points and buying wanted and needed items at R Mart.

• Cooking and Food Handling – learned by regularly assisting and receiving instruction from the facility cook.

• Personal Appearance and Hygiene – learned by daily expectations and instruction regarding hygiene, grooming and laundering.

• Living Environment Care – learned by daily expectations and instruction regarding household chores.

Social Skills Training

Once a week, youth youth will receive social skills training to help them develop a sense of responsibility so that they can get what they want in ways that maintain dignity and respect for themselves and others. youth will learn to stick to commitments, relate in ways that promote cooperation, deal appropriately with anger, and make healthy choices.

Behavior Management

The purpose of Renovo’s Behavior Management System is to ensure a safe, therapeutic environment exists in which the youth can address his treatment issues without fear. The system provides a way to track the youth’s progress in the program and encourages treatment progress.  The system is also designed to minimize power struggles between youth and staff, encourage and reinforce youth’s wise decisions, and provide opportunities for the youth to learn about choice and accountability.

Recreation

Renovo youth will have the opportunity to recreate daily. On campus activities include; billiards, table tennis, foosball, Frisbee golf, basketball, and fishing to name a few.

Off campus activities can include: (please include links if possible)

• Mark Twain Caves http://www.marktwaincave.com/
• River City Rascals Baseball http://www.rivercityrascals.com/
• St. Louis Arch http://www.gatewayarch.com/Arch/index.aspx
• St. Louis Science Center http://www.slsc.org/
• St. Louis Zoo http://www.stlzoo.org/
• Cuivre River State Park http://www.mostateparks.com/cuivre.htm
• Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail http://www.danielboonetrail.com/

The purpose of Renovo’s recreational program is to aid in improving and maintaining physical, cognitive, emotional, and social functioning, enhancing independent living skills and overall quality of life.

Recreation Hall

Billiards Table Tennis Foosball

Video Games TV Card/Board Games

Outdoors

Basketball Flag Football Frisbee

Fishing Tennis

Off Campus

Movies Eating Hiking Fishing Eating

Hiking Museums Theatre Service Projects Zoo

Academics

youth will have the opportunity to continue his education by taking high school courses on-line at Brigham Young University’s Independent Study High School Transcript Program. We offer a Standard Program, which provides a traditional high school curriculum that satisfies basic high school requirements for admission to college. We also offer an Advanced Program, which provides courses that are more strenuous than those of the Standard Program to better prepare the youth to enter competitive colleges and universities. It also prepares the youth to take the ACT and SAT exams.

By taking courses on-line, the youth will be able to work at his own pace, which allows boys who are behind in his credits to catch up.

To help youth with his course work, certified teachers who specialize in core class subjects are available during class time to provide tutoring as needed. Included in the academic curriculum is an emphasis on reading. youth will read good books daily and receive instruction from teachers as needed.

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