Jeremy\'s Story
Shiloh House is committed to serving children and youth through our residential and educational programs. We currently have ten residential facilities that are gender, age, and issue specific. Youth live in a home-like environment and are supervised by a team of treatment counselors, program coordinators, clinicians and managers. This approach fosters healing and helps them transition back into their home, family and community life. A complement to our residential program includes our four on-grounds schools that provide students in our care with a quality education and helps them develop healthy academic and social skills. In some cases, specialized education is used to help children transition into a less restrictive educational environment.
Consider Jeremy's story. At just nine years old, he has been moved in and out of foster homes almost his entire life because of his parents' battle with substance abuse and their inability to care for him. Because of this instability, Jeremy struggled with self-control, self-esteem and anger issues. Jeremy came to Shiloh when he could no longer safely stay in foster care because of the danger he posed to himself and others.
Jeremy was assigned to our residential treatment program where he was placed in a home with other boys his age and a Shiloh therapist and treatment counselors began working with him to help identify the triggers that made him so angry. In addition, he was placed in a self-contained learning environment at one of our Shiloh schools where students are assigned to the same teacher and remain in one classroom all day rather than rotating to different classes and teachers. In this consistent, positive and emotionally stable environment, Jeremy began to thrive. For perhaps the first time in his life, Jeremy was held accountable for his behavior and encouraged to build healthy, trustworthy relationships with adults and peers. Jeremy soon began to share the pain and disappointment that filled his heart, and healing began to take place. He realized that he could trust and follow others, and even manage himself within a caring environment like Shiloh's.
Meanwhile, Jeremy's mother had been attending parenting classes and substance abuse treatment in her hometown in California. Because of the change she demonstrated in her own life, Jeremy was able to reunite with his mother and brother. As Jeremy prepared to board a flight to California to go home, he said, "I will never forget Shiloh Home!"
