Wolverine Human Services, Vassar

Treatment Services at Wolverine Human Services

Care at Vassar is residential and non-secure, built around the Wolverine Growth and Recovery Center and its WCARE-R track for boys carrying a substance use or co-occurring mental health diagnosis. Alongside it, Foundations Behavioral Health at the Pioneer Work and Learn Center provides individual therapy, group therapy and group counseling, medical care, and psychological and psychiatric services delivered by contracted clinicians rather than resident staff.

Two further parts of the campus matter to anyone calling in an emergency. The Vassar Shelter offers crisis intervention and short-term placement, while the Intensive Assessment Unit works on emotion regulation skills with boys whose needs are still being worked out. Residential foster care and the Phoenix program sit alongside them, and schooling runs on site so a placement does not interrupt a young person’s education.

Beyond discharge, a Permanency Specialist or Family Worker provides in-home services and post-placement support to the family, which is the organization’s answer to what happens when a boy goes home. Wolverine does not publish an average length of stay, the specific substances it treats, or the diagnoses it accepts, and admissions run through a general referral form to an intake team, so all four are questions for the call.