NICHOLAS RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTER

The Frank W. Nicholas Residential Treatment Center (N.R.T.C.) is a twenty-four hour non-secure residential facility (bed capacity: 24) that provides behavioral interventions for males, 11 to 17 years of age. These boys are adjudicated delinquent and/or unruly males who are residents of Montgomery County. N.R.T.C. is located on 60 acres of land in the Jefferson Township community in Montgomery County. The facility, which consists of two cottages, houses the dormitory, education program and the administrative offices. The facility is adjacent to the Arthur O. Fisher Park of 200 acres, which is utilized to extend the recreation and socialization skill building components of the program.

The mission of the Frank W. Nicholas Residential Treatment Center for Youth is “to assist each youth in becoming a productive, responsible citizen, through diverse comprehensive treatment and rehabilitative services to the youth and his family, and to reduce or eliminate the youth’s involvement in the juvenile justice system.” To meet this mission each youth upon admittance and his family are engaged in individual, group and family counseling. The youth additionally has an individualized education program, participates in work and recreational therapy and is monitored continuously upon the effectiveness of all identified behavioral interventions.