Local businesses have offered many of our youth their first opportunity to earn a paycheck. Their experiences here often result in gainful employment when they return home. Campus Security works with staff to maintain a safe environment and community. While living at Arbor Heights, the youth learn how helpful police officers can be. It is a means by which a family is empowered to negotiate a transition between two stages, emerging from the experience as successful and competent.
People have resources and strengths and are capable of behaving differently.
As a time of transition, residential placement will be marked by intensive practice and experimenting with new ways of being. It is through this process that they may develop a new view of self which will allow for the ongoing discovery of more helpful, acceptable and successful behavior. The program also uses community resources to assist in this process. Programming incorporates family therapy, group therapy, individual treatment and academic study for the purpose of returning youth to the community as a productive member of their family and society. The building in which Arbor Heights Center currently resides was constructed in 1937 by the State of Michigan.