Sexuality Risk Assessment

The SafeGuards comprehensive evaluation is designed to assess level of risk and optimal intervention strategies.

Outpatient Services

Group, family and individual outpatient services are available at our Reading and Bethlehem offices.

While group is the predominant treatment modality, all SafeGuards outpatient services reflect a “cognitive-behavioral approach” that emphasizes the individual’s need to accept personal responsibility and their understand of the relationship between their previous sexual experiences, offenses and the need to change self reinforcing deviant behaviors.

Specialized Foster Care

Treatment Interventions Include:

-Diagnostic evaluation which includes risk assessment
-Parental/Caregiver questionnaire and assessment
-Sexual arousal restructuring
-Periodic clinical polygraphs
-Minimal arousal conditioning
-Deviant fantasy journaling
-Vicarious Sensitization
-Psychiatric assessment and medication maintenance
-Minimum one hour individual counseling per week
-Minimum three hour group counseling per week

Home Based Treatment

SafeGuards new “SafeHome” option provides highly supervised and structured treatment to the child or adolescent in their legal home setting. When appropriate, this innovative new service offers a cost effective alternative to residential care and eliminates readjustment to the legal home environment upon discharge

-State of the art, in-home electronic monitoring
-Training and support of legal family
-Individualized treatment planning

Independent Living Program

-Remedial education (including home based schooling when necessary)
-Social skill development
-Employment skill development
-Case Management and referral to housing and other “aging out” services.

Consultation Educated Services

-Speakers bureau on adolescent sex offender treatment
-Staff training
-Treatment consultation