Trauma Informed Residential Treatment Program
Missouri Girls Town offers youth a chance to heal and overcome their traumatic past and to find success. Our program is licensed, accredited, and trauma informed (QRTP Certified). The facility provides full wrap around services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and annually provides individualized care to over 100 abused and neglected young women.
We help our youth residents to overcome the trauma they have endured so they can live a normal life. It is our desire to break the cycle of hopelessness by working one-on-one with our residents and showing them a new path that offers much more happiness and a chance for a successful future outside of residential care.
Services to Missouri Girls Town residents are divided into the following programs:
Individualized Counseling and Treatment
Missouri Girls Town offers counseling and treatment programs that fit the needs of today’s youth. Our individualized treatment can include:
- Individual Therapy
- Group Therapy
- Family Therapy
Our therapy team utilizes Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) as the primary mode of therapy. Clinicians also utilize principles found in Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) and there are two certified practitioners and one trainer on our staff.
Health Program
Missouri Girls Town has a full time nurse and a medical assistant on staff to ensure that all of the girls’ medical, dental, vision, and psychological needs are met. In addition, staff members are certified in First Aid, CPR, and Medicine Administration.
We partner with the best in service providers to ensure youth receive the right care, at the right place, at the right time. Our partners in care are:
Compass Health Network – Dental
Arthur Center – Psychiatric Services
MU Health Care – Specialty Care and Hospitalization
Recreation and Wellness Program
Our Recreation and Wellness Program focuses on the importance of a healthy bodies and minds. Recreation meets these needs through sports activities, arts and crafts, movies, and social activities in which all girls participate fully and enthusiastically.
Several organizations volunteer at our facility to share games, treats and social interaction. These activities encourage the girls to develop better social skills.
Click here to learn more about the Girls Town Wellness Policy.
Life Skill Programs
It is our goal to give each client the tools to help them grow to adulthood. We offer age-appropriate job training and after-care preparation through on-campus jobs and off-campus employment. Our independent living skills courses teach clients life skills that help prepare them to care for themselves and their own families one day.
Educational Services
Missouri Girls Town works in partnership with the North Callaway R-1 School District to provide educational services to our clients- both on and off of campus. While in care, it is a priority to meet our clients’ individual educational needs, and help prepare them for academic success outside of our campus.
Eligible clients attend our on-campus school for K-12 level education. Paired with in-person instruction, our teachers provide self-paced learning, peer interaction, and small class sizes that allow for individual attention and assistance as needed.
Youth who meet certain criteria can be eligible to attend school at one of the North Callaway School District’s buildings.
After-Care Services and Outpatient Therapy Services
Every effort is made to prepare girls to reunite with their parent(s), relatives, adoptive family or foster care when a viable family exists. If clients do not have the option of returning to their community, Girls Town focuses care and treatment on a successful transition to independent life after high school.
These programs include individual and family counseling, assistance with independent living needs, crisis intervention or respite care. We also offer post-secondary education assistance for clients attending college. It is our desire to continue to provide assistance to girls who have left our care.