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Clackamas River Campus

The Clackamas River Campus provides beautiful, natural surroundings designed to accommodate treatment, recreation and family visits.

For almost 50 years, Youth Villages-ChristieCare of Oregon has been providing residential treatment for children with serious emotional and behavioral problems. A private nonprofit organization, Youth Villages-ChristieCare of Oregon’s mission is to help children and families live successfully. The program uses clinically proven treatment approaches with the goal of returning children to their families or other less restrictive settings as quickly as possible.

Residential treatment is part of Youth Villages-ChristieCare of Oregon’s wide array of programs and services, which also includes intensive in-home services and transition services for young adults. For children with more severe issues, we offer the safety and security of intensive, secure and enhanced residential treatment.

Situated on 35 acres of pristine evergreens along the Clackamas River in Oregon City, the Clackamas River Campus offers the Cedar Bough Native American Program featuring culturally responsive residential treatment for Native American youth as well as youth who can benefit from a strong cultural and spiritual life program. Guided by Youth Villages-ChristieCare of Oregon’s Native American Advisory Council, the Cedar Bough Program provides holistic care incorporating the physical environment and mind/body healing best practices. This program offers youth many traditional experiential opportunities, including powwows, therapeutic ropes course work, beading, drumming, singing, dancing, regalia making, sweat lodges and smudging.

An individualized treatment approach
With individual cottages accommodating groups of 10-12 youth, we prioritize placing children in groups according to age, diagnosis, intellectual functioning level and gender when possible. Masters-level counselors provide group, individual and family therapy, and staff also includes child and adolescent psychiatrists and nurses. Counselors use the Re-ED treatment model to help troubled children focus on the present and learn successful behavior patterns. Youth participate in a variety of recreational activities, including a challenge ropes course, swimming in an outdoor pool and playing on sport courts. Our campus school programs are staffed with Clackamas Education Service District special education teachers and teacher assistants. In addition, we offer equine-assisted psychotherapy at the spectacular Butte Creek Ranch when clinically appropriate.

Flexible admission criteria
Residential treatment at Youth Villages-ChristieCare is available to both boys and girls ages 6-17. We accept children with IQs of 70 and above. In addition, specialty treatment programs are available for hard-to-place youth.

Learn more about residential treatment at Youth Villages and the principles of the Re-ED model we use.

If you are considering referring a child to Youth Villages, please learn about admission guidelines, location and funding considerations and complete a brief referral questionnaire.

Youth Villages-ChristieCare of Oregon, Clackamas River Campus
P.O. Box 368
Marylhurst, OR 97036

Physical address (no post office delivery available):
15544 S. Clackamas River Drive
Oregon City, OR 97045
P: 503-607-0520

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Youth Villages is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to helping emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and their families live successfully. We help more than 18,000 children and families each year from more than 20 states and Washington, D.C. Our Evidentiary Family Restoration™ approach involves intensive work with the child and family, a focus on measuring outcomes, keeping children in the community whenever safely possible, and providing accountability to families and funders. The EFR approach produces lasting success for children with success rates twice that of traditional services at one-third the cost of traditional care.