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CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH
TURNING LIVES AROUND: Clarity Child Guidance Center provides a continuum of mental health care to manage conditions ranging from ADHD and anxiety to suicidal ideation, bipolar disorder and/or schizophrenia. Clarity serves all children in need of care, regardless of their family's ability to pay.
Clarity Child Guidance Center is a nonprofit in South Texas providing a continuum of mental health care for children ages 3-17 and their families, to manage mental health conditions ranging from ADHD and anxiety to suicidal ideation, bipolar disorder and/or schizophrenia.
Clarity Child Guidance Center features:
- Stand-alone mental health hospital on an eight-acre campus in San Antonio’s South Texas Medical Center
- 66-bed hospital and 6-bed Crisis Service unit offering specialized inpatient/outpatient treatment for children
- Serves all children in need of care, regardless of their family’s ability to pay; more than 60% of patients are disproportionately low-income
- Offers the region's largest concentration of child and adolescent psychiatrists through a partnership with Southwest Psychiatric Physicians
- Serves as a teaching hospital for the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Baylor College of Medicine, Incarnate Word Nursing College, and several other nursing schools
- Clarity CGC’s continuum of treatment, intervention and prevention services include:
- Psychiatric emergency care in 24/7 Crisis Services area;
- Inpatient treatment for children in crisis and/or children experiencing long-term complex problems;
- First Step appointments help caregivers recognize when a child’s behavior escalates from age-appropriate challenges to mental health disturbances requiring professional help;
- Partial hospitalization (day treatment) during daytime; children return home in the evening to practice coping skills outside of the treatment setting;
- Outpatient therapies, including individual, group and family sessions;
- Wraparound services such as case management, medication management, education support and an innovative Play with Purpose™ therapeutic art and active play program;
- Next Step program helps families transition out of treatment by ensuring medications are filled; answering questions; helping with school re-entry; connecting families with resources food and clothing; and making follow-up care appointments;
- One in Five Minds online resource is free for parents, including articles, videos and handbooks;
- Collaborations with schools, churches, businesses and organizations