Mental health treatment is a vital part of our program. We have an on-site full time therapist for our girls, who meets with them individually once a week, at minimum. Our therapist also spends time outside of therapy with the girls, eating meals with them, playing games, engaging in activities, going on outings, or even can be caught playing Four Square outside with them! We also offer family therapy in order to help reconnect girls with family or repair strained relationships.

Cornerstone utilizes the following frameworks in our approach with residents:

• Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI): “TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.”


• Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC): ARC is a framework of intervention for youth who have experienced multiple or prolonged events of traumatic stress. It identifies three core domains that are frequently impacted among traumatized youth, which include Attachment, Regulation, and Competency. ARC provides a theoretical framework, core principles of intervention, and a guiding structure for providers.

Our mission is to create an atmosphere of safety, through trust and relationships, and meet each girl where they are at. We realize that every girl is different, having her own strengths and gifts, as well as areas to grow. When a new resident arrives, our team assesses her needs, and along with input from guardians and the resident herself, creates an individualized treatment plan which will outline goals she will work on throughout her stay.