800-671-4304Four Oaks Family and Children’s Services, Smith Center
About Four Oaks Family and Children’s Services, Smith Center
Four Oaks Family and Children’s Services, Smith Center is a nonprofit behavioral health and residential treatment provider in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, serving children and adolescents with serious emotional, behavioral and mental health needs.
The Smith Center campus offers Qualified Residential Treatment Programs, Psychiatric Medical Institute for Children services and outpatient options for youth ages 5 to 18 years, including those with co-occurring addiction and mental illness. Four Oaks uses a trauma informed total child approach to help young people build coping skills and work toward stability.
What Programs Does Four Oaks Smith Center Offer?
The center provides residential treatment for youth ages 12 to 18 years who cannot remain in family settings due to emotional, behavioral or mental health challenges, along with a Psychiatric Medical Institute for Children for ages 5 to 18 years needing intensive inpatient clinical care. Outpatient services and telemedicine options are also available across Iowa.
Who Can Get Help Here?
Four Oaks serves children and adolescents ages 5 to 18 with serious emotional disturbance, behavioral health conditions and co-occurring addiction and mental illness. The programs support young people who need more structure and clinical support than family or community settings can provide.
What Does Treatment Include?
Youth participate in trauma informed individual, group and family counseling using approaches like trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR and child parent psychotherapy. Life skills training, case management and aftercare planning support emotional regulation, communication, coping and relapse prevention.
Does Four Oaks Accept Insurance?
The Smith Center accepts Medicaid, private health insurance, cash or self payment and state juvenile justice, mental health and education agency funding. Financial aid and payment assistance programs are available for eligible families.
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Alcohol detox programs offer medical support to help individuals withdraw safely from alcohol. Your care team may use medications to ease your symptoms and provide medical monitoring to address complications. |
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Alcohol detox programs offer medical support to help individuals withdraw safely from alcohol. Your care team may use medications to ease your symptoms and provide medical monitoring to address complications.
Contact
Gayle Morris, BSN, MSN, received her bachelor’s from the University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center and her first master’s from the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. She practiced nursing for over two decades with a focus on pediatric physical rehabilitation, which required mental health skills to help children, and their parents work through new challenges after a head injury or spinal cord injury. She has been a freelance writer in health, wellness, and mental health for over 15 years. She loves exercise, her dogs and guinea pigs, and gardening.
