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Mental health crises with a teenager can be terrifying. Find support now with Antelope, and get your family back on track.
What is IOP?
Intensive Outpatient Programming (IOP) is an effective and widely used treatment option for individuals facing mental health and addiction challenges. Our program is based on research and evidence-based practices, ensuring that your loved one receives the best possible care. The intensity of IOP allows for significant progress to be made in a relatively short amount of time. Because teens receive care at home instead of away from home, they are supported in practicing therapeutic skills in immediately relevant circumstances. This allows for true skill-building and healing to stick long after our program ends. With the full support of our experienced team, we will work together to create a personalized care plan tailored to your child's unique needs and goals.
What does IOP look like?
IOP typically lasts between 4-12 weeks and involves participating in group therapy and other structured activities several hours per day, three to five days per week.
Programming includes:
- Individual therapy
- Family therapy
- Group therapy
- Crisis management
- Medical Care Coordination
Sample weekly schedule
Monday
1:1 Therapy
4:30-5:30pm
One-on-one psychotherapy with your Antelope therapist to go deeper into personal challenges in a focused way. CBT, Motivational Interviewing, EMDR and other evidence-based practices are utilized to assist in creating change. In these sessions, you will discuss your personal challenges, thoughts, and feelings in a confidential setting. Individual therapy is a safe space to explore issues, build coping skills, and work towards your mental health goals.
Social-Emotional Group
6:00-7:00pm
Social-Emotional, or Antelope, Groups are focused on social-emotional skills. We consider it the “glue” of each teen’s treatment plan. In Antelope Groups, we celebrate program graduations, build relationship skills, develop a sense of belonging, and build self-worth. Loneliness is both a cause and consequence of mental illness, and this group is specifically built to address it. This is a required group.
Tuesday
Family Therapy
4:30-6:00pm
Family therapy including your teen, their Antelope therapist, and family members. By focusing on communication, conflict resolution, and relationship building within the family unit, both the recovery of your teen and the health of your family is greatly supported. This is an essential and required part of the Antelope IOP Program.
Wednesday
Mindfulness Group
4:30-5:30pm
Mindfulness Groups are focused on building numerous mindfulness related skills, such as Attention, Awareness, and Embodiment. Building these skills helps teens with impulse control, emotional awareness, and stress management. This is a required group.
Caseworker Session
6:00-7:00pm
Sessions with your caseworker are focused on access and utilization of resources outside of Antelope. Your caseworker will help with issues involving school, courts, finding sports teams or NA meetings, and more. They will act as both a mentor and advisor, and make sure your teen and family have everything you need for recovery.
Thursday
Social-Emotional Group
6:30-7:30pm
Social-Emotional, or Antelope, Groups are focused on social-emotional skills. We consider it the “glue” of each teen’s treatment plan. In Antelope Groups, we celebrate program graduations, build relationship skills, develop a sense of belonging, and build self-worth. Loneliness is both a cause and consequence of mental illness, and this group is specifically built to address it. This is a required group.
Friday
1:1 Therapy
4:30-5:30pm
One-on-one psychotherapy with your Antelope therapist to go deeper into personal challenges in a focused way. CBT, Motivational Interviewing, EMDR and other evidence-based practices are utilized to assist in creating change. In these sessions, you will discuss your personal challenges, thoughts, and feelings in a confidential setting. Individual therapy is a safe space to explore issues, build coping skills, and work towards your mental health goals.
Personalized Treatment Plans
Customized care means every treatment plan is unique. Your teen can receive anywhere from twenty hours of care a week to three or somewhere in between. We work with you and your teen to determine the most effective path forward and continually evaluate and revise to maintain efficacy.
Assessment
15hrs/wk
6hrs/wk
3hrs/wk
Alumni
The Four Pillars of Antelope's IOP
Each weekly schedule is rooted in the four pillars, which create abundant opportunity for your teen, and family, to heal and find stability.
Individual and Family Therapy
These sessions are weekly at a minimum and up to 3x per week. Individual sessions are where your teen digs in deep and creates real strides in developing self-awareness and meeting their goals. We focus on increasing trust and communication in the family unit during family therapy.
Education and Skill-Building
Weekly educational and skill development groups for both parents and teens that focus on different aspects of recovery. Topics covered include relapse prevention, communication training, and more.
Ecology of Care Tools
One of the impacts on struggling teens is that their world gets smaller. Teens start to create smaller and smaller places in an attempt to feel safe. This increases their isolation and makes things worse. We have a set of tools that focus on expanding the teen's world, such as connecting with nature, grandparents, and animals.
Group Therapy
Loneliness is both the number one cause and consequence of mental illness. Learning how to create connections with peers is one of the #1 things we can do for teens. Shared experiences of community and connection are deeply transformative for teenagers who are developing their social identity.
Your teen will learn
Self-Worth
They are “enough” and “worthy” even when they make mistakes or when some people don’t accept them.
Radical Self-Responsibility
Own strengths and weaknesses with accountability. Teens leave our program feeling empowered.
Emotional Intelligence
Recognize what they feel, why they feel it, and how to process it in ways that work for them.
Impulse Control
Make wiser decisions accounting for the bigger picture. Build a mature relationship with impulses and habits.
Healthy Screen Use
Understand the negative impact that excessive screen use incurs for them and their relationships.
Conflict Resolution
Get beyond the drama, set healthy boundaries, and create connections with others.
Communication Skills
Learn to effectively communicate feelings and needs with both skill and social awareness.
Healthy Habits
Create healthy relationships to sleep, food, social media, phones, etc.
Emotional Catch-Up
Metabolize undigested emotional experiences from the past including old pains, traumas and experiences.
How it works
Get in touch
Connect with us via phone or submit our form, and we’ll reach out shortly for a no pressure call.
Design your care plan
Discuss your teen's mental health history, needs, and goals and design a comprehensive care plan for your teen.
Start your journey
We will match your teen with a therapist, therapy groups, and individualized care plans.
Transformation and Healing
Treatment will continue for as long as is needed for your teen to build the foundation necessary for lasting recovery.
Graduation!
Off-boarding will leave your teen well-equipped to engage with life post-intensive treatment.
Ongoing Community and Growth
Maintain wellbeing through engagement with our alumni and services network.
Everything included in our IOP program
Included in our program are a full range of resources and services designed to help you achieve your goals and maintain your mental and emotional well-being.
Assessments
Comprehensive assessments of your teen's current struggles
Individual Therapy
1:1 Therapy sessions for your teen, 1-3x per week
Family Therapy
Weekly family therapy sessions
Physical Health
Care coordination with our nurse.
Case Management
Support with care coordination and goal accomplishment.
24/7 Support
If there's an emergency, our team is here for you
Alumni Planning
Graduate in confidence with alumni and after-care planning
Weekly Groups
Specialized teen groups for your teen, 1-14hrs per week
Mentorship
1:1 support from peer mentors
Practices
Customized inter-session practices promote integration and growth
Parent Support
Enrollment in both our parenting program and weekly parenting process groups
Digital Dashboard
All billing, scheduling, and relevant info to your teen's process is available on our client dashboard.
Admissions Info
We know that paying for treatment can be both overwhelming and a significant expense for your family. We believe in billing transparency and making treatment work for both your teen’s health and your finances and will work closely with you and your insurance company to help your kid get the help they need.
Antelope Recovery is a private pay treatment program; we do not receive insurance reimbursement for our services (additional details regarding insurance are provided below). The program’s total cost is determined by the daily rate, length of stay, and other program-specific fees. Families can anticipate an average length of stay of 4 to 12 weeks. Please contact the Antelope Recovery admissions team at (303) 578-2391 to discuss tuition and financing options.
Antelope Recovery is a private pay treatment center; we do not receive insurance reimbursement for our services. It is the sole responsibility of the family to coordinate reimbursement with their healthcare insurer. If you are considering seeking insurance reimbursement for our program costs, we strongly recommend you work with an insurance advocate.
Families who attempt to process claims on their own are typically denied coverage. Insurance advocates specialize in managing health insurance claims to help you develop and implement a strategy to achieve maximum coverage. They will provide a free initial consultation, perform a verification of benefits, support any pre-authorization requirements, and address all correspondence with your insurance company including coding, claim creation, electronic claim submission, corrections, appeals, and denials.
During the admissions process, Antelope Recovery can provide you with more information about these services. If you have any questions, please contact our admissions team.
Partial scholarship and financing options may be available for qualified families. Please contact an admissions counselor for more information.
Another available resource is Prosper Healthcare Lending. Prosper Healthcare lending offers the following benefits:
- Immediate decisions for loans under $35,000
- Term options out to 84 months (affordable monthly payments)
- No collateral required
- No prepayment penalties
- Fast and easy application process
- 100% confidential
The base cost for a week of care is $1500. Additional fees are added dependent upon your child’s schedule and the intensity of their program. Families should expect an additional $50-$600 each week, with the level of care and cost adjusted each week based on whether your teen needs more or less support.
All of this will be reviewed weekly when we discuss your teen’s schedule and where they are at in their Antelope journey.
Data-Driven
Our curriculum is designed specifically for teenagers, by clinicians specialized in working with teens.
Dedicated Team
Reap the benefits of having a personal connection and relationship with your care team.
Treatment that works
With 75% of all mental health disorders being discovered before the age of 25, it is crucial to provide teens with effective and sustainable recovery options. While short-term solutions may address immediate acute crises, they are often partial and insufficient for achieving a full return to wellness.
Just like an athlete who requires months of physical therapy to fully recover from an injury, a mental health episode may also take months of recovery to build one's life back together.
Meet
Your care team
Every member of our team works on your child’s personalized care plan to ensure that you and your family receive the best care possible. At Antelope, your teenager is more than just a number.
