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Children’s Programs Admissions

The David Lawrence Center offers innovative and comprehensive mental health and substance abuse programs developed to meet the unique needs of children who experience mental health, emotional, psychological and substance abuse challenges. These programs include inpatient, outpatient, community-based, and Telehealth treatment services.

Programs

  • Caleb

    Meet Caleb

    Caleb is a sweet 16 year old boy who plays lacrosse and the drums in the Palmetto Ridge High School marching band. He has a great sense of humor and is extremely bright, polite and articulate. This is...

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  • Chloe

    Meet Chloe

    From the outside, Chloe is a beautiful, outgoing 16-year-old who loves animals, art and being the center of attention. Those closest to her know the Chloe who has difficulty learning, making friends, ...

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  • Megan

    Meet Megan

    Megan seemed like any other rebellious, outspoken teenager. She was struggling in school, fighting with her brothers and not getting along with her friends. But much to her mother's dismay, at just 15...

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  • Josh

    Meet Josh

    Josh is a 6-year-old boy with a newfound passion for horses thanks to the new pilot equine therapy program. His treatment and access to the program is due in part to the NCEF Wrap Around Collier Progr...

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  • Emma

    Meet Emma

    Emma comes from a large, loving blended family of eight children. A passionate, native New Yorker and resident of Rockaway - a tightknit community hit especially hard by recent tragedies including the...

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  • Sally

    Meet Sally

    Sally is a 16 year old survivor who has persevered despite many personal struggles. She and her twin sister had a difficult upbringing having been neglected by her parents and placed in foster care th...

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  • Kevin

    Meet Kevin

    Kevin's parents always considered him sensitive and a bit unruly. But after they got divorced, his behavior got "really bad" and they became concerned that it wasn't a normal reaction. His mother shar...

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  • Charlie

    Meet Charlie

    Since the young age of 4 when he tragically lost his best friend and God sister, Charlie has been experiencing extreme behavioral issues. Despite the best efforts of an outpatient counselor and a comb...

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  • Torionna

    Meet Torionna

    Torionna, known loving by her family and friends as Tori, is a sweet, proud, beautiful 10-year-old track and field star who, despite being faced with difficult medical issues, devastating loss and ter...

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  • Leo

    Meet Leo

    Leo's life was becoming unmanageable. The 16-year-old was experimenting with drugs, lying to his parents, skipping school, hanging with the wrong crowd and getting into trouble with the law. His alcoh...

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  • Jessica

    Meet Jessica

    Jessica, a seventeen year old with severe depression who attempted suicide, benefited from the David Lawrence Center’s Urgent Care Clinic. The program kept her out of an inpatient setting while prov...

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  • Becca

    Meet Becca

    Becca is a 17-year-old, sweet, outgoing teenager who lovingly speaks of a deep affection for her mother and excitedly talks about graduating high school, her first real job and her dream of becoming a...

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  • Maria

    Meet Maria

    Maria, a self-proclaimed Daddy's girl, is a beautiful 16-year-old who grew up as the bubbly center of attention. Tragedy hit when she watched her father take his last breath after he was involved in a...

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  • Lance

    Meet Lance

    Lance is a tough, fiercely independent 15-year-old who faced far too many hardships growing up. His parents, both drug addicts with long rap sheets, were never around and incapable of providing emotio...

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  • A’llawna

    Meet A’llawna

    A'llawna is a beautiful, brilliant 9-year old with a childlike sense of humor and sweet disposition that can turn in the blink of an eye. A self-described Daddy's girl who can be a bit of a “diva”...

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