Jack DuckworthResidential Treatment in Ketchikan, AK
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Resilient Youth & Community (RYC) is an accredited non-profit behavioral health provider located in Ketchikan, Alaska offering comprehensive community-based residential, outpatient clinical, and therapeutic rehabilitation services for Alaskan youth and families experiencing mental and behavioral challenges. RYC's continuum of care includes residential treatment, therapeutic foster care services, afterschool programs, and early prevention services. Treatment plans are personalized using evidence-based interventions and a strengths-based approach, addressing the specific needs of both clients and their families. The program utilizes both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to support behavior change, foster positive habits, and improve mental health. RYC has served the community for over 30 years, operating a residential program for up to 30 youth while providing outpatient and aftercare services to an additional 40-50 youth. The organization emphasizes a collaborative, trauma-informed approach where clients, families, and treatment teams work together to determine appropriate levels of care and monitor progress toward recovery goals.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Co-occurring
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
Strengths-based
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
Activity therapy
Activity Therapy. Structured therapeutic activities, recreation, movement, hands-on tasks, used as a vehicle for connection and emotional regulation. Often paired with talk therapy in residential and group programs.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
Couples/family therapy
Family Therapy. Brings the people closest to the recovery into the room. Less about blame, more about updating the patterns that fed the cycle so the home becomes part of the recovery.
Dialectical behavior therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Pairs acceptance with change. Especially useful when emotions feel too big to ride out without acting on them.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Integrated mental and substance use disorder treatment
Integrated Treatment. Treats addiction and co-occurring mental health conditions in the same plan, rather than sequentially. Most clinically effective when both are present.
Individual psychotherapy
Individual Psychotherapy. One-to-one sessions with a licensed clinician. The standard-bearer of mental-health care; most evidence-based plans build around it.
Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
Telehealth Therapy. Real clinical sessions delivered over video. Same evidence base as in-person care for most conditions; meets you where you actually are instead of where the office is.
What this facility offers
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