COUNCIL BLUFFSÂ â The opening of a residential treatment facility at Childrenâs Square in Council Bluffs provides a new level of treatment for teens and youths dealing with a mental health crisis.
This facility, called Cottonwood, provides these young people with the treatment they need in a home-type setting. Opened this past week, the facility offers up to six beds and two double rooms, plus open areas and a kitchen.
âWe are able to have them stay on our campus to up to five days, and while they are here, they will receive therapy to de-escalate the crisis they are in,â said Jonathan Holland, chief program officer for Childrenâs Square.
From left, Childrenâs Square officials Grace Lyne Brotherton, Heather Yenney, Babita Gajmer and Johnathan Holland stand outside the Cottonwood residential treatment facility that opened last week.
During that time, the children will work with a therapist and other mental health professionals who will come up with a long-term treatment plan to mitigate that crisis, he added.
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There is no cost for parents, and they can even stay at the facility with their child â a new opportunity for such residential treatment.
âThatâs unique,â added Heather Yenney, a crisis case manager. âItâs a new concept.â
It’s the first one in southwest Iowa, Holland said, adding that the state asked mental health regions to get this type of service up and going. This service is exclusively for Iowa youths and teens, he added.
âIt will give families another tool they can access for children in a crisis situation,â he said.
Currently, the program has one referral. Children’s Square hopes to spread the word about this service to local schools and related agencies, Holland said.
Itâs part of a program called Crisis Stabilization Residential Services.
âBack in March, we opened up our Anywhere Crisis Care, which is for youths and teens who are going through a mental health crisis,â Holland said.
Young people in the community are now able to call Childrenâs Square, and then representatives will go meet them outside Children’s Square’s campus, he said.
âIt could be in the home or wherever and help them work through the crisis they were currently in,â Holland said. âWe were building up to the point where we were going to open up our Crisis Stabilization Residential Services.â
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