Facilities and programs mentioned by parents and community members, reorganized by level of care and connected to official websites wherever a current match could be verified. This is a place to begin asking questions—not a ranking, endorsement, or substitute for clinical and legal guidance.
Call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department when there is immediate danger or a medical emergency.
Once you're researching or moving toward a placement, use the free Intake & Placement Tracker to keep every care team contact, medication, and insurance detail in one place — fill it in on your phone as you go.
These are community mentions, not Shari — On The Record recommendations. A facility appearing here does not mean it is safe, appropriate, available, covered by insurance, or a good fit for a particular child.
Programs change ownership, names, staffing, licensing status, admission criteria, populations served, and insurance contracts. Independently verify every detail directly with the program and the relevant state licensing agency.
Search by facility, state, care level, or a word such as autism, inpatient, or PRTF.
Ages: Varies by campus
A multi-state behavioral-health network with residential, educational, autism, and community-based programs. Services, ages, payer requirements, and referral pathways differ by location.
Ages: Children and adolescents; varies by campus
Residential treatment campuses with clinical, educational, and family-focused services.
Ages: 13–17
Adolescent behavioral-health care that may include inpatient, residential, and intensive outpatient levels, with DBT-informed programming.
Ages: Varies by program
A range of specialty inpatient, residential, partial-hospital, and outpatient programs for children, adolescents, and emerging adults.
Ages: 5–17
Medically directed psychiatric residential treatment for children and adolescents with significant behavioral and mental-health needs.
Ages: 8–14
A trauma-informed residential program for younger adolescents, with therapy, psychiatry, nursing, caregiver coaching, and step-down options.
Ages: 6–21
Psychiatric residential treatment for youth with a dual diagnosis that can include intellectual/developmental disability or autism plus a psychiatric condition.
Ages: Children and adolescents; program-specific
Residential and psychiatric services for young people with behavioral-health, developmental, and substance-use needs.
Ages: Program-specific; generally 8–20
Residential treatment, autism-focused residential services, and crisis stabilization for children and adolescents.
Ages: Generally 6–18; program-specific
Faith-based psychiatric residential and therapeutic residential services for youth.
Ages: 4–17
Intensive psychiatric residential treatment for children and adolescents, with acute and residential levels available within the system.
Ages: School-age youth; program-specific
Residential, special-education, and community-based acute treatment services for children and adolescents.
Ages: School-age children and adolescents
Residential services for children and adolescents with developmental, behavioral, and mental-health needs, including campus and group-home options.
Ages: 11–17
Psychiatric residential treatment for adolescents with complex mental-health and behavioral needs.
Ages: 12–21
Family-centered psychiatric residential treatment for adolescents and young adults.
Ages: Girls ages 10–17
Psychiatric residential treatment in Springdale for adolescent girls with behavioral and mental-health needs.
Ages: 4–13
Trauma-informed psychiatric residential and stabilization services for younger children.
Ages: Children and adolescents; campus-specific
Hospital-based child and adolescent psychiatric care, including inpatient and day-treatment levels.
Ages: Children 5–11; adolescents 12–18
Acute psychiatric hospitalization and partial-hospital services for children and adolescents, with additional teen programming.
Ages: 12–17
Hospital-based inpatient and step-down behavioral-health services for adolescents.
Ages: 8–17 for child/adolescent inpatient
Child and adolescent psychiatric services with inpatient care; the organization also references adolescent residential services.
Ages: Adolescents; program-specific
Adolescent inpatient, partial-hospital, and intensive-outpatient behavioral-health services.
Ages: 4–17
Acute psychiatric hospitalization for children and adolescents, including specialized support for some youth with developmental disabilities and psychiatric needs.
Ages: 12–17
North Carolina state-operated psychiatric hospital services that include adolescent care.
Ages: Children and adolescents
Hospital-based acute psychiatric services for children and adolescents with mental-health or co-occurring substance-use needs.
Ages: Children and youth at risk of out-of-home placement
An official Louisiana pathway for coordinated behavioral-health support for youth with complex needs who are at risk of placement outside the home.
Ages: 16–24, eligibility required
A federally funded education and career-training program with residential and nonresidential options for eligible young adults.
Get important answers in writing whenever possible. Ask the facility, the referring clinician, insurer, school team, attorney or advocate, and state licensing agency—not only one source.
Prefer to check these off and record the answers instead of just reading them? The free Questions to Ask Before Any Placement checklist covers all ten categories above, fillable on your phone, with one saved entry per facility so you can compare answers side by side.
The free Intake & Placement Tracker holds the care team, communication plan, meds, insurance, and items left with your child — one entry per placement, saved right on your phone.
Compiled from comments shared with @shari.ontherecord and reorganized for easier research. Official program pages were linked where a current match could be made. This page does not provide medical or legal advice and does not guarantee the accuracy, safety, availability, licensing status, or suitability of any program.