Counterpoint reaches out to children and youth who are displaying inappropriate sexual behavior as well as suffering from emotional or behavioral problems. The programs have effectively helped children, adolescents and their families alter problem behavior around sexual issues for two decades.

Counterpoint focuses on teaching positive, appropriate social skills while helping clients to resolve personal issues and cope with earlier trauma. Research indicates that early intervention with children and adolescents can significantly decrease the likelihood of social, emotional and developmental problems as well as criminal behavior developing later in their lives.

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Counterpoint Outpatient Program

• Serves children and youth ages 4 to 18 years
• Individual, group and family therapy tailored to the unique treatment issues of each client and his/her family
• Multi-family group sessions dealing with educational and therapeutic issues related to sexual abuse

Counterpoint Day Treatment Program

• Serves adolescent boys ages 12 to 18 years
• Group-centered program which emphasizes personal accountability, eliminating delinquent behavioral patterns, increasing educational achievement and improving the individual's capacity to function in the family, school and community
• Education provided in an on-site alternative school staffed by special education teachers

Counterpoint Proctor Care/Residential Program

• Therapeutic foster care for youth placed in the day treatment program provided by specially trained foster parents who work exclusively with Counterpoint youth
• Residential care provided in conjunction with day treatment program designed to extend the treatment milieu to fully wrap around youth twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week

Counterpoint Secure Residential Treatment Program
in collaboration with Multnomah County Dept. of Juvenile Justice

• Serves adolescent boys ages 12 to 18 years
• Intensive sexual offender treatment provided in a secure facility overseen by the Multnomah County Juvenile Justice Division
• Short-term, six-month package designed to alter ingrained deviant thinking, assess community safety and coordinate youth's safe return when possible to community-based treatment programs

Sample data from Counterpoint Outpatient Study of Pre-Adolescent Clients 1991-1998

What type of child does Counterpoint Outpatient serve?

• 80% had experienced some form of abuse or neglect
• 70% were sexually abused
• 60% have sexual offenders in their family
• 63% have had serious school problems
• 75% lived in poverty

What outcomes does Counterpoint Outpatient produce?

• Sexual behavior problems decreased
• General behavior problems (eg. anxiety, aggressive behavior, attention problems) decreased
• 100% parents reported that the program helped their children deal effectively with their problems