A hands on approach, in a home-like environment.

We specialize in working with young men that have survived trauma and 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.

Individualized focus

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:

  • History of some form of trauma

  • 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 Problem

  • Substance 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.

Our Process

The admissions process requires each family completing a Daybreak Canyon "All Purpose Enrollment Form" and the Daybreak Canyon intake form. These two forms include the information that we require such as past behaviors and a brief family history. Parent(s) will report on their perception of events at home and what led up to the decision to seek a residential placement. We require a medical history completed by their family doctor before arrival and any previous psychological testing needs to be included with the application packet. Parents need to include all current high school or junior high/middle school transcripts.

Forms can be requested via email: LARRY@DAYBREAKCANYON.COM

or over the phone: 208-312-4117

Upon receipt of application materials the application and other reports will be reviewed within two business days by a team of staff members including the therapist and CEO. The team will look at the age, IQ, diagnosis, and past behaviors to make a decision of admittance. (The admissions team will keep record of the decision).

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.