St. Joseph’s Children’s Home in Torrington, Wyoming, is a private, non-profit, residential treatment facility for youth ages six to eighteen. As a non-profit agency of the Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne, St. Joseph’s has been providing quality services to youth and families since 1930. St. Joseph’s provides comprehensive residential services for up to 62 youth. St. Joseph’s offers a complete Residential Treatment Program in its main facility or acute stabilization and comprehensive evaluations at the Newell Children’s Center. Both secured and open campuses are available, with 24-hour supervision, social skills training, psychotherapy, Educational Services, and Chemical Dependency Services provided by over 100 professional staff members.

Children referred to St. Joseph’s exhibit a variety of serious concerns including:

• Physical and sexual abuse or parental neglect
• Depression and suicide attempts
• Oppositional behavior and defiance of authority
• Runaway and substance abuse problems
• Excessive fear and anger
• Aggressive or sexually inappropriate behavior
• Involvement with the juvenile court system

Holistic Approach to Treatment

St. Joseph’s holistic approach to treatment encompasses four components. Psychotherapy addressing the emotions that frequently underlie children’s behavioral problems. The Residential Program provides intensive Social Skills Instruction to replace children’s problem behaviors with acceptable social skills to improve family and peer relationships. In the education program, students experience success through a full range of academic and vocational classes offered at St. Joseph’s fully accredited on-grounds K-12 school. The Youth Ministry Program offers nondenominational Christian spirituality as a foundation for lifelong change and success.

St. Joseph’s Supplementary Services

Nursing services and a Consulting Psychiatrist provides psychiatric services and consultations. Two Licensed Psychologists provide Psychological evaluations (intellectual and personality), as well as close supervision of clinical activities. A full range of therapeutic recreational activities that include a 4-H club, summer swimming lessons, therapeutic equestrian program, choir, drama, summer camping trips and supervised outdoor recreations.