ABOUT Detroit Behavioral Institute ...

Detroit Behavioral Institute (DBI) operates a 50-bed residential facility, located in downtown Detroit, serving adolescents with a substance abuse problem and a co-existing mental disorder who have been adjudicated to have committed criminal acts and who have been referred or required to undergo psychiatric treatment by a court or family service agency.

DBI's facility includes two Units, a thirty bed male unit that opened in November 2004 and a twenty bed female unit that opened in October 2005. The patients in the program range from 12 to 18 years of age, with a minimum IQ of 70.

DBI's program provides individual, group and family therapy sessions for medication orientation, anger management, impulse control, grief and loss, family interactions, coping skills, stress management, substance abuse, discharge and aftercare planning (home visits and community reintegration), education, recreation therapy and sexual/physical abuse counseling as required. Typically, a patient is admitted to the unit for an initial period of 30 days to six months. A case review is done for any patient still in the program at six months, and each subsequent six-month period thereafter, to determine if additional treatment is required.

Detroit Behavioral Institute was approved by the State to operate a school for the education of its residents. This allows the company to integrate the residents' education with their treatment and provide the best education possible without transporting the individuals to another site.