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Northwest Passage Assessment provides comprehensive clinical assessment for clients ages 6-17 and the Prairieview Program provides intensive residential mental health services for clients ages 12-17. While the assessment program is co-ed and the Prairieview program has traditionally served female clients, both programs serve transgender and non-binary clients. The programs are located in the same facility on the Frederic campus but have separate living, educational, and recreational areas. While an assessment is an appropriate first step for some, clients may also be admitted directly into Prairieview without attending the assessment program. Assessment Overview: Our interdisciplinary format of assessment includes focus on neuropsychological evaluation, family, psychiatric, educational and behavioral, health/medical and, when necessary, chemical health. Our assessments are completed in a highly integrated team model that is more intensely beneficial than traditional outpatient evaluation services. Our assessment generates a comprehensive clinical conceptualization and a dynamic treatment plan designed by the interdisciplinary team to address the needs of both the child and family. Prairieview Overview: Northwest Passage Prairieview provides a small group (three units of 8 clients each) therapeutic and skill-building experience. Prairieview addresses the need to increase self-esteem, develops healthy coping skills, promotes positive relationship-building and social skills, and encourages connections within the community. Emphasis is placed upon living a therapeutic lifestyle through nature, relaxation, nutrition, exercise, relationships, giving back, and individual spirituality. Our treatment approach includes integrated Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), psychiatric services, expressive arts programming including our unique In a New Light photography project, equine-assisted therapy, and individual, group, and family therapy. Northwest Passage programs, including Prairieview, are capable of working with and managing the safety needs of many clients with chronic self-harm behaviors and suicidal ideation. Prairieview utilizes many regional resources such as wooded areas for hiking, cross-country skiing, and camping, as well as the rivers and lakes for swimming and canoeing.