Nevada’s Foremost Residential Treatment Center for Teens
Earning our CARF Accreditation in the top 3% of programs surveyed internationally demonstrates Aurora’s commitment to providing person-centered, developmentally aware, trauma responsive care for our students. We are committed to being the best psychiatric residential treatment center in Nevada, providing life changing treatment for teens ages 13-17.
-McKaye Treanor, Executive Director
Aurora Center for Healing is CARF Accredited in the top three percent of programs surveyed internationally. We are proud of that designation and strive to provide excellent person-centered treatment.
We are a secure 60 bed psychiatric residential treatment center, located in the peaceful high desert town of Hawthorne, Nevada. We provide developmentally aware, trauma responsive care for teens ages 13-17.
Our Phase Program and Behavior Management Plan are simple and clear, and motivates students using positive rewards, teaching them to make good choices and build resilience.
Every mistake is an opportunity to learn and grow, and as our students engage in treatment they move through our Phase Program and are able to have increased responsibilities and opportunities to prepare them for success after they complete their individualized program.
Our caregivers are trained in our attuned relationship-based model of treatment, providing boundaries, structure, support, and compassion to help our students feel safe, gain confidence, and begin to heal and re-engage with their families and communities in positive ways.
Who We Are
Restoring Hope, A New Beginning
Program Offerings
We believe in giving students opportunities to gain a greater sense of self-worth through therapy, recreation, and education.
We offer a holistic approach to treatment that allows students to learn new things and participate in new experiences and things they used to enjoy.
Through the process of trying, learning, and trying again, with encouragement from staff and peers, we are helping them build self-esteem, confidence, and the resiliency needed to navigate their lives.
Our students daily schedules include these activities
Therapy, Residential Life, Academics, Outdoor Adventure, Sports
Exercise, Skills Night, Coed Activities, Addiction Recovery
Mindfulness & Spirituality, Student Leadership
Caring for our animals, Trauma Informed Yoga
Focused on Outcomes
We developed an effective home plan that we implement four months before a student graduates their program.
Elements of the plan include identifying a therapist, psychiatrist, and pharmacy. Students identify an exercise partner, sober friend, sponsor, life coach, spiritual mentor, and career coach.
We create plans for education, employment, recreation, fitness, mental health management, and sobriety.
Great planning and practicing their Home Plan increases positive outcomes for students and their families.
Our Students
We are dedicated to enhancing the psychological, emotional, and interpersonal relationships of our students. Efforts to help our students modify maladaptive behaviors and teach positive coping skills are accompanied by an emphasis on accepting and respecting students as individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, interests, and abilities.
We believe that every student we work with is inherently good.
Prior to enrolling with us, our students experienced trauma and developed maladaptive behaviors and coping skills in response to their traumatic experiences.
Many of our students have engaged in substance abuse, aggression against people/property, school refusal, theft, lying, codependency, and online addiction. They struggled with friendships and familial relationships, running away, and suicidal ideation and attempts.
Common diagnosis our students are struggling with include mood disorders, attachment disorders, ADHD, oppositional defiance disorder, conduct disorder, executive functioning disorder, specific learning disabilities, autism and neurodiversity, and parent-child relational disorder.
We are able to work with acute students in our secure, specialized milieu with structure, kindness, and safety.
Every student is worthy of a new start, every day.
Individualized Academics
We believe that every student has the ability to be successful academically, and our teachers, paraprofessionals, and registered behavioral technicians work to provide the right learning opportunities for each student.
Utilizing online education and a school schedule that allows for time to move and spend time outside throughout the day, we are able to meet each student where they are at and help them get caught up or ahead in credits.
We also offer vocational education at the local high school when students reach phases 4 & 5 of our program. All credits are transferable, and we implement each student's IEP in conjunction with the school district.
With our amazing sensory center right next to our classrooms, we are able to help students regulate and return to class so they stay engaged academically and learn new coping skills through the process.
Family Focused
Staying Connected
We want families to stay connected and improve relationships while their child is with us. In addition to family therapy, done via video calls each week, families will have a 20 minute phone call once a week with their child. As therapy progresses, and students move into the Action stage within The Stages of Change, the therapist can authorize 2-3 phone calls a week to help with family connections.
Families Working Together
While students are working on their trauma and relationships, we ask parents to do the same. We have a Parent Workbook with reading materials and assignments for parents to complete with their child as they move through The Stages of Change.
Family Support
Each family is assigned a coordinator that will email them a weekly report on each student’s activities and progress, with photos of the student. The coordinator will also communicate with parents on student medical and dental needs, and for birthdays and holidays. Parents are welcome to call the coordinator during business hours for any needs they have related to their child’s care.
