SITE Program:

About 1% of the American population engages in self injury and it is considered to be one of the fastest growing problems for adolescents. While the problem is a challenging one, there is hope that the behavior can stop. The Self Injury Treatment and Education (SITE) program is open to both adolescent (over age 12 to age 18) and adult (over age 18) males and females. The program involves individual, group, and family therapy sessions. Also, there is a support group available for loved ones of self injurers that provides education and nurturance for those who are impacted by self injury. Adolescent self injurers who complete the program are eligible to become peer educators. As a peer educator, they increase their chances of remaining free of self injury by strengthening their core coping skills and enhancing their self esteem. The peer educators provide education, support, and hope to other teens who are currently self injuring, at risk for self injury, or who are in need of information about self injury. Since there are few structured treatment programs specifically geared toward the self injuring client, a variety of health care providers are faced with the challenge of providing services to this population. The SITE program is dedicated to spreading knowledge, increasing understanding, and enhancing competence of clinicians and other health care providers who encounter self injury in their client populations.

SITE Program Components:
-Individual Therapy: Focus on you
-Group Therapy: You are not alone
-Family Therapy: Because when you hurt, your whole family hurts

C.A.S.I. (Concerned About Self Injury) Group
A support and education group for parents, loved ones, and others concerned about someone who self injures

TEEN PEePS (Peer Education to Prevent Self Injury)
An opportunity for teenagers who have completed the SITE program to share their knowledge, coping strategies, and success stories with other teens to help end the pain of self injury

SITE Program Admission Guidelines:
•Open to female and male adolescents (over age 12 to age 18) and adults (over age 18)
•Must NOT be actively suicidal or psychotic
•Previous self injurers may benefit from our services and are welcomed in the program
•Families of adolescent self injurers are required to attend family therapy and participate in the C.A.S.I. Group
•Families and loved ones of adult self injurers are encouraged to become actively involved in treatment through the C.A.S.I Group and family therapy