Children's Guild receives three-year accreditation

The Children’s Guild received full three-year accreditation from the Commission for Accrediting Rehabilitation Facilities. The accreditation applies to The Children’s Guild’s Treatment Foster Care program, therapeutic group homes, and outpatient behavioral health and school-based counseling services.

The Commission for Accrediting Rehabilitation Facilities is a national and international accrediting body of health and behavioral health care services. The accreditation designates quality behavioral health services and positions The Children’s Guild to access health care funding in the future.

In The Children’s Guild’s therapeutic group homes, 80 to 100 percent of adolescents in the program for six months or longer return to lower levels of care each year. The Treatment Foster Care program returns children to lower levels of care close to 70 percent of the time. In addition, both programs have low turnover rates for staff, including direct-care and clinical professionals as well as foster parents, which help assure consistent, quality care to children and their families.

“From the high rates of our children returning to lower levels of care to the low rates of staff turnover, we’ve achieved excellent outcomes in the field of social work leading to our accreditation. This is indeed a major accomplishment,” said Andrew Ross, president and CEO of The Children’s Guild.

In addition to the therapeutic group homes and Treatment Foster Care program, Outpatient Behavioral Health Services help children with mental health issues, and school-based counseling services offer behavioral health counseling to 1,200 children in 60 public schools throughout Maryland each year.