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 clients.
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 48 bed psychiatric residential treatment facility, located in the peaceful high desert town of Hawthorne, Nevada. We provide developmentally aware, trauma responsive care for teens ages 12-18.
Our Phase Program and Behavior Management Plan are simple and clear, and motivates teens using positive rewards, teaching them to make good choices and build resilience.
Every mistake is an opportunity to learn and grow, and as our clients 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 clients 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 clients opportunities to gain a greater sense of self-worth through therapy, recreation, and education.
We offer a holistic approach to treatment that allows clients 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 clients daily schedules include these activities
Therapy, Residential Life, Academics, Outdoor Adventure, Sports
Exercise, Skills Night, Coed Activities, Addiction Recovery
Mindfulness & Spirituality, and Student Leadership.
Focused on Outcomes
We developed an effective home plan that we implement four months before a client graduates their program.
Elements of the plan include identifying a therapist, psychiatrist, and pharmacy. Clients 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 clients and their families.
Our Students
We are dedicated to enhancing the psychological, emotional, and interpersonal relationships of our clients. Efforts to help our clients modify maladaptive behaviors and teach positive coping skills are accompanied by an emphasis on accepting and respecting clients as individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, interests, and abilities.
We believe that every client we work with is inherently good.
Prior to enrolling with us, our clients experienced trauma and developed maladaptive behaviors and coping skills in response to their traumatic experiences.
Many of our clients 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 clients 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 clients in our secure, specialized milieu with structure, kindness, and safety.
Every client is worthy of a new start, every day.
Individualized Academics
We believe that every client has the ability to be successful academically, and our education team works to provide the right learning opportunities for each client.
Utilizing online education through Egdenuity, and a schedule that allows for time to move and spend time outside throughout the day, we are able to meet each client where they are at and develop a learning plan catered to their needs.
With our sensory center right next to our classrooms, we are able to help clients regulate and return to class so they stay engaged academically and learn new coping skills through the process.
Edgenuity is a Nevada Department of Education approved accredited program.
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 two 20 minute phone call once a week with their child. As therapy progresses, and clients 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 clients are working on their trauma and relationships, we ask parents to do the same. We have 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 client’s activities and progress, with photos of the client. The coordinator will also communicate with parents on client 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.
