Crittenton Residential Services

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Crittenton offers the only licensed residential treatment program for pregnant and parenting girls in West Virginia.

Our therapeutic approach is both trauma and gender informed. It includes a commitment to providing care in the healthiest, least restrictive environment to meet the needs of adolescents. Clients live in the dorm-like main residential building or in supervised houses on the agency’s campus.

Residential clients come to the program through referral from WV DHHR.

Kaleidosope Butterfly Becoming

Our Kaleidoscope Butterfly Becoming program is rooted in a gender responsive philosophy of offering specific services for females that foster a sense of competence and hope.

The program integrates the current tools, practices, and techniques consistent with the ARC framework that focuses on facilitating customized treatment plans centered around attachment, regulation, and competency.

These plans provide unique maps that lead to lasting life changes for our clients that impact her relationships, self-esteem, and sense of empowerment.

We offer two specialized tracks within Butterfly Becoming program and all clients receive some level of substance use disorders co-occurring treatment support.

  • Our pregnant and parenting track provides clients with a hands-on, opportunity-based program to enhance each resident’s skills and positive experiences with her infant.

    We integrate community systems, services, and guidelines into our programming that connects girls with community resources as a part of programming to assure them the support and benefits needed to bridge any gaps while they complete their own personal transformations.

  • Our ASD Chrysalis Track is designed for adolescent females who, due to neurodivergence, have increased difficulty with social skills, tolerance, sensory issues, reactions to stressors, and restrictive or repetitive behaviors that effect concentration.

    Our Chrysalis track emphasizes development of age-appropriate social skills, building self-esteem, and improving emotional regulation skills through the use of evidenced-based approaches that include:

    • Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART)

    • Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS)

    • PEERS (Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills)

    Our overall goal for young women on this specialty track is to validate individual lived experiences, celebrate the strengths of neurodiversity, discover common ground in areas of difficulty, and work together to build the necessary skills to experience success and integration while still honoring the individual.

  • Our Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Support recognizes that many of our young women have experienced exposure to patterns of risk behavior related to the abuse of controlled substances. 

    Though we do not consider ourselves a SUD specific provider, we do address substance use prevention as a core part of our Butterfly Becoming program and offer recovery and relapse prevention services depending on the needs of our residents.