Overview
Children’s Minnesota has expanded its acute mental health services with the opening of a partial hospitalization program (PHP) for adolescents. This program was developed to address the urgent need for intensive mental health services for children and adolescents.
The PHP at Children’s Minnesota supports children and adolescents, and their mental health providers, by offering intensive, full day, multi day treatment when patients need more care than outpatient therapy but do not or no longer need to be hospitalized.
- Depression
- Self-harm or self-injurious behavior
- Suicidality
- Panic disorders/panic attacks
- Aggression
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Social anxiety
- School avoidance
- ADHD
- OCD
- Cognitive coping skills
- Psychological education
- Movement therapy (yoga, meditation)
- Music and art therapy
- General wellness and nutrition
- Individual therapy and supportive check-ins as needed
- Family therapy
- Medication management sessions with a psychiatrist
- Case management and referrals for ongoing treatment
Providers
Claudia Campo-Soria, MD – Psychiatrist and Medical Director of Partial Hospitalization Programs
Matthew Bolin, LICSW – Clinic Manager
Anna Bohlinger, LMFT, PhD – Clinic Manager
Lisa Atkinson, LMFT, ATR-BC – Program therapist lead
Monique Barlow, RN – Program nurse
Sydney Boeser, LGSW – Program therapist I
Zoë Copa, LICSW – Program therapist II
Aujani Davis, LADC – Program therapist I
Joshua Drummond, LGSW – Program therapist I
Matthew Jadlowski, LICSW – Program therapist lead
Lindsay Merriman, MD – Psychiatrist
Alexandra Myhill-Jones, LPC – Program therapist I
Paige Petermeier, LGSW – Program therapist I
Sandra Rackley, MD – Psychiatrist
Derek LeRoux Smith, MD – Psychiatrist
Aaron Taubenheim, RN – Program nurse
Ramla Warsamee, LGSW – Float program therapist I
Referral and intake process
Kids ages 6 – 18 (if still in high school) must meet the following criteria:
- Have a diagnosed or suspected behavioral health condition that may benefit from the partial hospitalization program.
- Patients would otherwise need inpatient services without partial hospitalization programming
- Symptoms have been unable to adequately addressed through a less intensive level of care
- Marked impairments in their daily life, including any of the following:
Marked impairments in functioning that preclude adequate functioning in areas such as self-care, and/or other more specific role expectations such as school attendance or progress
Safety concerns
Medication compliance
To refer patients who are not within the Children’s Minnesota system, please call the Children’s Minnesota Physician Access line:
