McCollough Childrens Home

McCollough Children’s Home is a licensed therapeutic children’s residential center certified by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and licensed by Ohio Department of Children and Youth. McCollough Children’s Home promotes a safe/stable environment for youth that have been subjected to abuse, neglect, dependency and are at risk.

Trauma is unexpected and scary for youth. The McCollough Children’s Home has a workforce who understands the effects of trauma and motivational interviewing and are trained to work in ways which support youth with traumatic backgrounds.

McCollough Children’s Home received a 3-year accreditation with CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) in November 2023. 

Additionally, we received the QRTP (Quality Residential Trauma Program) through the Ohio Department of Children and Youth in April 2024.

McCollough Children’s Home is a co-ed, therapeutic children’s residential center with an eighteen-bed capacity, operated by the Jefferson County Department of Job and Family Services and licensed by Ohio Department of Children and Youth. McCollough Children’s Home provides a therapeutic program to youth who have been abused/neglected/dependent or at risk. Youth are placed at MCH to provide a therapeutic living situation. MCH is designed to provide services, stabilize the youth, and when possible, reunify the youth to a stable home environment or less restrictive setting.

The staff at MCH are trained in trauma informed practices and motivational interviewing to enhance motivation for change within each youth.  These skills are used to help guide youth through the problem-solving process and encourage self-actualization, process issues, behaviors, and actions and give them an opportunity for discussion and resolution of these issues.

During the first thirty days after placement, the youth in combination with the child, parents, social worker, and significant others, designs a service plan. This plan (with revisions every ninety days or sooner as needed) provides the foundation for treatment. It includes an overview of the circumstances leading to placement, diagnosis, treatment goals, and specific activities to accomplish these goals. The plan is revised to reflect progress, goal changes, and additional therapeutically significant information.

Process Groups allow youth the opportunity to process behaviors, actions, issues, and teach reinforcement skills and the opportunity to have an open discussion with staff and other youth and openly talk about their challenges and goals, as well as attempting to identify social skills that will help the youth replace old, undesired behaviors and actions.

Community Group exists for the youth to participate in extracurricular activities, school sports, field trips, on grounds projects and more.

Like other services, the transition plan is driven by the youth and their needs.  The transition plan supports the youth’s service plan and outlines the services the youth will need as they integrate back into a stable home environment or less restrictive setting.

The purpose of MCH is to provide as many services within the community as possible to help with stabilizing and reuniting the youth to a permanent stable environment, However, length of stay is individualized and varies considerably. Much depends on the youth’s ability to cope, parental involvement, and placement possibilities.