Building Relationships For Life
TEKOA FEMALE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM
Tekoa’s Female Residential Program focuses on building therapeutic relationships with our residents to help them develop coping skills and the ability and confidence to be assertive in challenging social and personal situations. We promote residents’ growth in our community to reintegrate them into their home communities as their ability to form appropriate and healthy relationships increases.
Tekoa’s Female Residential Program is located on 75 acres in Pilot, Virginia in Floyd County. Our campus and the nearby Blue Ridge Parkway provide our girls with a tranquil atmosphere and a variety of outdoor recreational activities. In addition to the residential facility, on site we have a special education school, a fully-equipped barn with up to 8 horses, two riding rings, a volleyball court, a basketball court and a garden. These on-site resources provide our residents with opportunities such as nature walks, hiking, biking, gardening, horseback riding, and various sporting activities.
We also offer various off-campus opportunities. We are located only 20 minutes from the town of Christiansburg, which offers malls, theaters, and restaurants. We are also 35 minutes from two State Universities, Virginia Tech and Radford and 45 minutes away from several private colleges in Roanoke, VA. These institutions afford our residents the opportunity for diverse educational and cultural experiences.
Up to 16 girls live in our nurturing, home-like environment. The residents’ rooms and staff offices adjoin the central living and dining areas, promoting interaction among residents, therapists, recreation coordinator, and case manager. Our living room and dining area surround a fireplace that adds to the cozy environment in the winter months.
Services Offered:
Tekoa’s Female Residential Facility offers a variety of services including the following:
• Around the clock direct childcare and supervision.
• On-site special education CommUnity school Monday through Friday.
• Evening and weekend therapeutic and recreational programming including on and off-site groups such as women’s issues, social skills, body image through yoga
• Service Learning opportunities in which the residents volunteer their services to the local community by working with organizations such as the Special Olympics, Head Start, nursing homes, Adopt-A- Highway, Habitat for Humanity and many more.
• On-site individual, group and family psychotherapy. Our group therapy focuses on such topics as self-esteem, sexual abuse, anger management, substance abuse, assertiveness training and many more issues relevant to the population.
• Therapeutic riding through our Equine Program.
• Case management including the arrangement of psychiatric appointments, home visits, and transportation to court hearings and FAPT meetings.
• Medical coordination including the scheduling and transportation to psychiatric, medical, dental, gynecological, and optometry appointments.
• Monthly treatment plans, residential reports and medical update reports.
• 24-hour on-call services for any after-hours crisis situations
• Mentor program in which the staff personally mentor a resident and work with them on various mentor treatment goals and objectives during journaling sessions and mentor outings.
• Cultural activities including performances, and visits to local museums and cultural festivals.
• Community service opportunities
• Opportunity for transition after graduation from our program to the Tekoa Transitions House.
Population Served:
Our facility offers services to female adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17. Our residents come from cities all over the state of Virginia through referral sources such as the Department of Social Services, schools, and the court systems.
Our residents come to Tekoa struggling with various issues, which may include the following: depression, anxiety, anger management, legal difficulties, substance abuse, eating disorders, body image, self-esteem, oppositional-defiance, school-related difficulties, family issues, abuse, and neglect. We can also accept pregnant adolescents; however, the resident’s infant would not be able to reside at the facility.
Contact Information:
To make a referral, please contact:
Summer Morrison
Case Manager
(540) 745-3887, Extension 16
smorrison@chpc2.org
For general information you may contact:
Shannon Atkins
Tekoa Female Residential Program Director
PO Box 90, Pilot, Virginia 24138
(540) 745-3887, Extension 15
satkins@chpc2.org
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