Treatment includes residential, educational, and preventative services.
Youth, age 12-17 are placed here by family courts, the Department of Social Services, or public school districts. A residential treatment facility, group home, three agency boarding homes, supervised independent living home, and foster family care are included in the program. In 1968, a five section building was erected replacing the original Gustavus Adolphus Home. The Gustavus Adolphus Children's Home is a residential treatment facility for emotionally disturbed youth between the ages of 12 and 17. On-site institutional care maintains up to 42 residential beds.