Daybreak Canyon opened in April 2009. We are licensed by the State of Idaho as a residential treatment center. We have a rolling admission policy with both our program and school and can admit youth at any time. Youth are admitted on a first come first serve basis. We are licensed to work with boys ages 12-17.
We specialize in working with young men that are struggling with serious attachment and relationship issues resulting from depression, anxiety, adoption issues, poor social skills, and other related causes. We also specialize in Executive Dysfunction. We feel our hands on approach, in a home like environment is ideal for working with these type of youth. We work individually and collectively with each youth helping them overcome the barriers to forming good relationships and attachments and teaching the necessary social skills to retun home and be succesful. By choice we keep our group size small so that youth have great access to staff and to each other, to really focus on forming postive relationships. We feel that a smaller group size is critical for this process so that kids do not get overwhelmed in a larger setting with more staff and kids.
The young men we serve will ideally possess an average/above average IQ and have the strengths to be successful in a physically, academically, emotionally, spiritually, and personally rigorous program.
We are able to met the needs of youth and families with youth that are experiencing the following:
-Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
-Attachment Issues
-Executive Dysfunction
-Anxiety
-Abuse, Neglect, Abandonment Issues
-Depression
-Bi-polar Disorder
-ADD/ADHD
-Adjustment Disorder
-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
-Relational Problems
-Subtance Use Issues
This list is not all inclusive, please call if you have specific questions on other issues. Each youth will be carefully screened to ensure they are a proper fit for the program and for the youth already in care. Each referral and admission will be done on a case by case basis.
Daybreak Canyon will not serve youth that have engaged in sexually deviant activities or that have been adjudicated as a sex offender. DC will not serve youth that have a pattern of severe violence, patterns of fire starting, severe mood or thought disorders, and/or a history of multiple recent suicide attempts.