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Overview

The Chrysalis Center is a for-profit, community mental health center that provides a comprehensive array of services to children, adolescents, families and adults. Our clients have a variety of psychosocial barriers that inhibit their potential for success in the community, home and/or educational environment. The severity of their conditions range from relatively minor difficulties adjusting to life changes to significant isssues affecting their ability to function on a daily basis. Our clients vary in ethnic origin, race, economic resources, sexual orientation, and family structure.

The Chrysalis Center was originally established in 1995, under the name Crawford Center, to provide residential treatment to sexually reactive boys between six and thirteen years of age. Due to its success, the company began to receive requests to expand its programs and services. In 1999, to delineate its growth into a full service community mental health center, Crawford developed The Chrysalis Center for its full service center and retained the name Crawford for its original group home. We have since developed a full array of mental health programs throughout South Florida.
We now operate three group homes, Monarch, Apollo and Cassius, and one shelter, Crescent, in Broward County for males ages 12 through 17, which in total house 40 boys. Monarch is a specialized therapeutic group care shelter for boys with sexual behavior issues. Apollo and Cassius are long term group homes for boys in foster care who have severe conduct issues and have failed in all previous placements. Our shelter, Crescent, provides temporary housing to foster care clients who are new to the foster care system or have lost their current placement.

The Chrysalis Center also has a large outpatient mental health and substance abuse program that provides treatment to more than 1,500 children, adolescents and adults per week in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Our outpatient program provides individual, family and group therapy; psychiatric evaluation and medication management; therapeutic behavioral on-site services; assessment and treatment planning; and psychological and psychosexual evaluations. In our adult and adolescent mental health and substance abuse psychosocial rehabilitation program, we serve an additional 200 clients in South Florida, providing these clients with the skills they need to live independently and successfully in our community. At our MAT staffings, community providers staff all cases of child-on-child sexual abuse which is reported to BSO. Further, we collaborate with the local universities to provide students with practical experience and education in this industry.

Culture

The Chrysalis Center prides itself in providing the highest quality care and employing professionals with a variety of specialties to meet our clients' needs. Our staff of over 300 mental health professionals and para-professionals has extensive experience, not only in mental health, but specifically in children's mental health and child care services. These staff members provide quality services to thousands of children, adolescents, adults, and families on a weekly basis.
The Chrysalis Center was founded in 1995, operating as the Crawford Center, serving boys in a small therapeutic group home. Today, the Chrysalis Center has evolved into a multi-dimensional organization in response to a growing community need to provide children with quality mental health care through innovative programs and a comprehensive array of services.

Benefits

The Chrysalis Substance Abuse and Mental Health Outpatient Department In our outpatient department, the Chrysalis Center provides children, adolescents, adults and families of Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties with a wide array of mental health and substance abuse counseling services including, but not limited to psychiatric services, assessment services, individual and group counseling, family counseling, psycho-social rehabilitative services, and psychological testing. Services are provided in the traditional office setting, as well as the home, school, or community in which the issues are occurring. Services are then individualized based on the needs of the client. Within our outpatient program, the Chrysalis Center also provides a more specialized service, the STARRT (Sexual Trauma and Risk Reduction Treatment) Outpatient Program. Our STARRT Program provides the mental health services listed above, but is more narrowly focused on treatment of children and adolescents with sexual behavioral issues. Multidisciplinary Assessment Team (MAT) The Chrysalis Center is contracted to coordinate a MAT staffing of child-on-child sexual abuse cases reported to the state abuse registry. The goal of MAT staffing is to provide child protection investigators with feedback and assistance in meeting the treatment and safety needs of families, victims, and alleged offenders. Each week, professionals from a variety of agencies, including the Chrysalis Center, Broward Sheriff’s Office, ChildNet, Sexual Assault Treatment Center come together and make treatment and placement recommendations for the perpetrator and victim and their families. Mental Health and Substance Abuse Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program The Chrysalis Center’s Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program is a person-centered recovery program designed to restore skills and abilities which are essential for independent living. In the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program, clients who are experiencing functional deficits and interpersonal and environmental barriers created by their disabilities, are provided with tools to integrate successfully into the community, to restore their social skills for independent living and effective life management, and to increase their chances for productive employment and linkage to community supports. While clients can receive supportive counseling in a therapeutic environment, the primary focus of the program is to restore functional capability through enhancement of practical, daily skills related to self-care, independent living, vocational development and socialization. Group discussions and activities are structured to foster independence and appropriate socialization while raising self-esteem and competence necessary to meet client goals. Clients are actively involved in setting their personal goals and identifying the tasks needed to achieve these goals. Within the psychosocial rehabilitation program, the Chrysalis Center has a specialized substance abuse track. Clients enrolled in this track participate in intensive substance abuse counseling services designed in assisting them in the recovery process. Targeted Case Management Services The Chrysalis Center provides Targeted Case Management Services to children and adults throughout South Florida who have a mental health or substance abuse disorder. The purpose of the targeted case management services is to assist clients in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational and other resources within in the community so that they may live successfully and independently. STARRT Specialized Therapeutic Group Home Program STARRT program at Monarch House is a specialized program designed to provide treatment to sexually aggressive boys ages 12 to 17 who require intensive sexual behavior specific treatment. The goal of the STARRT Program is to stop the cycle of child abuse. Emphasis is placed on increasing client awareness of their personal sexual behavior problems and patterns, teaching them ways of monitoring themselves effectively, and fostering the development and internalization of self-control. Comprehensive services include sexual behavior specific assessment and treatment, individual, family and group therapy, psychiatric evaluation and treatment, treatment planning and review and care management. Monarch house currently has an eight bed capacity. Cassius House and Apollo House Cassius and Apollo Boy’s Group Home Programs respond to the need for long term care for adolescent boys between the ages of 12 and 17 who have been removed from their home due to abuse and/or neglect and who have failed in foster placement due to difficult behaviors and/or issues. Residents are provided with a nurturing and safe therapeutic environment, room and board, 24-hour awake supervision, appropriate nutrition, independent living skills training and recreational, education and social and cultural activities. This program is designed to promote self sufficiency and personal responsibility. Cassius house currently has a ten bed capacity and Apollo house has a six bed capacity. Crescent House Crescent House Boy’s Respite Program responds to the need for temporary care of boys in Broward County between the ages of 12 and 17 who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and/or neglect. It also fills a void in the community for when male foster children are in need of a temporary residence because of a disruption or removal from their placement. Clients also include boys that have recently been released from the juvenile justice system who do not have a permanent placement to return to. At the Crescent House, clients receive a safe and nurturing environment, room and board, 24-hour awake supervision, appropriate nutrition crisis intervention, life skills training, recreational, educational, social and cultural activities. Crescent house currently has a sixteen bed capacity.

Career Opportunities

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
3800 West Broward Blvd
Suite 100
Ft Lauderdale, Florida 33312
954-587-1008 Phone
954-587-0080 Fax

BROWARD COUNTY
202 SW 27th Avenue,
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
954-792-9241 Phone
954-792-9243 Fax

PALM BEACH COUNTY
2311 10th Avenue North
Suite 11
Lake Worth, Florida 33461
561-752-0400 Phone
561-752-0453 Fax

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
1704 NW 7th Street
Miami, Florida 33125
305-630-3334 Phone
954-587-1080 Fax

Our Mission

Contributing to our community….

Creating hope….

Cultivating success in our clients….

The Chrysalis Center is proud of our mission to contribute to our community, create hope, and cultivate success in those we serve each day.

Our Philosophy

The Chrysalis Center understands that each client comes to us with their own unique personalities and issues. As such, we strive to provide services that are individualized, rather than attempting to fit a client into an existing program model. All services and clinical treatment are customized to the client's functioning and environment, from the time of intake through discharge.

Not only do clients have unique personalities and issues, they also have unique strengths and abilities, that when emphasized, enable our clients to better function in their environment and their community. The Chrysalis Center focuses on building these strengths and abilities, since they are the foundation to successful living.

We believe that no client can progress without the success and encouragement of their support system, whether such system involve family or friends, religious organizations or community agencies that participate in the client's life. As such, we encourage the support system to participate as a full partner in all stages of treatment.

Whenever possible, we encourage our clients to remain connected and active in the community and we therefore provide many of our services in home or home-like settings as well as in the school and/or community.

As culture determines our worldview and provides a general design for living as well as patterns for interpreting reality that are reflected in our behavior, the Chrysalis Center strives to provide culturally competent services that recognize and respect the behavior, ideas, attitudes, values, beliefs, customs, language, rituals, ceremonies, practices and characteristics of a particular group of people.

Further, the Chrysalis Center pursues collaboration with all other service providers involved in the client’s life, including educators, health care professionals and social service representatives, community organizatons, spiritual leaders, and the legal system. We work with the representatives from all these systems along with our client to define goals for the client’s treatment, develop a service plan, utilize the necessary resources to implement the plan, and to provide holistic services that meet all client needs in the least restrictive/least intrusive manner possible.

Within that philosophy, the Chrysalis Center utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy as our practice model for our therapeutic programs.

Chrysalis Culture

The Chrysalis Center is an organization that strives to maintain its energy and creativity by hiring talented individuals to join our team. We are dedicated to high standards of excellence and pride ourselves inb providing superior mental health services to our community in South Florida.

The Chrysalis Center is an organization that promotes and fosters a casual and friendly work environment that ultimately is perceived as being fun to work in. The goal is for our employees to look forward to work each day with vigor and with a bright, cheerful attitude.

In addition, all supervisors maintain an open door policy for all employees in all departments to feel comfortable to bring forth any concern they may have or to just to participate in a general discussions that foster team building.

Contact

Orietta Levinson
Lead Recruiter
954-587-1008, ext 1040

Kelly Ann Hazlett
Recruiter
954-587-1008, ext 1042