Real Solutions
ChristieCare embraces the treatment philosophy called Re-Education (Re-ED™), developed by Dr. Nicholas Hobbs as an innovative, cost-effective way to treat children experiencing problems in their homes, schools and communities.
Re-ED™ is family-centered and “ecologically based” — meaning that problems experienced by children are the result of problems in their environment, and solutions must be based in that environment as well. By building upon the strengths within a child’s world, opportunities to build competence and achieve success occur on a daily basis, bringing about real and sustained change for the child and family.
As a Re-ED™ organization, ChristieCare works to create positive environments and meaningful experiences that encourage children and families to succeed. Our staff challenge them through nurturing, trust and creative risk-taking. Each success builds competence so that eventually a better way of living emerges. Helping children and their families become self-reliant and productive members of their community is at the core of our strength-based system of care.
ChristieCare is a leader in integrating and developing best-practice, evidence-based services. As a treatment philosophy, Re-ED™ is more a framework than a rigidly defined process, and easily embraces innovations and technological advances in our work. Children and families served by ChristieCare can be assured they are receiving the best possible care in the field.
At ChristieCare, we are guided by the following twelve principles of Re-ED™ in everything we do, with every family we serve:
- Trust between child & adult is essential.
- Life is to be lived now.
- Competence makes a difference.
- Time is an ally.
- Self-control can be taught.
- The cognitive competence of children and adolescents can be considerably enhanced.
- Feelings should be nurtured.
- The group is very important to young people.
- Ceremony and ritual give order, stability, and confidence to troubled children and adolescents.
- The body is the armature of the self.
- Communities are important.
- A child should know some joy in each day.