Healthy Experiences In Gaining Hope To Succeed
The H.E.I.G.H.T.S. Program is a building-wide school-based behavioral health intervention model which provides in-school mental health services to identified students who attend Hasson Heights Elementary and the Oil City Middle School. Participating students must be experiencing emotional and/or behavioral difficulties in school, and possibly home, and/or in the community as well. They must be at risk for out of school placement and have a mental health diagnosis. A physician or licensed psychologist/psychiatrist must recommend the H.E.I.G.H.T.S. Program as medically necessary. The students must be eligible for Medical Assistance. At least one parent/caretaker must consent to treatment unless the student is age 14 or older.
The specific goals of the H.E.I.G.H.T.S. Program are:
- Increase family involvement in treatment and educational processes
- In-school resource for students, families, and teachers
- Create a positive atmosphere which supports the student to be successful in the classroom and reach their educational goals
- Teach social skills and coping skills to master self-control
- Increase self-motivation and self-esteem
- Implement strength-based resiliency approaches
- Increase emotional regulation skills to decrease troubling behaviors
Treatment provided includes:
- Daily morning and afternoon groups
- Individual interventions as needed
- Promote resiliency; a student’s ability to succeed when faced with risks and adversity
- Recognize students’ accomplishments utilizing a token reward system
- Weekly positive calls to parents/caregivers
- Monthly family skill building activities
- Strength-based therapy, which identifies the positive abilities of the students
- Behavioral modification modeling
- In-School crisis management
- Individual and group psychotherapy