This month we want to tell you about Hearts & Homes for Youth’s John C. Tracey (JCT) Boys’ Home. JCT is a residential, community-based group home located in the heart of Rockville, Maryland. Here we provide delinquent adolescents and emotionally unstable adolescent males with consistent, discipline-building services that allow for personal growth and enrichment. The professional staff provides 24-hour supervision, nurturing, and care. Young men in this program typically spend up to two years in our home.
This group home offers support for up to eight adolescent males between the ages of 13 and 17 years old from all parts of Maryland. JCT Boys’ Home offers the following benefits:
- Individual, family, and group therapy targeted to building a strong personal identity, pride, self-esteem and confidence
- Employability development and placement with potential career development
- Educational advocacy and support, tutoring and college preparation
- Case management and coordination for health services, substance abuse treatment, and additional necessary services
- Recreation and constructive use of leisure time
- Life skills training to support self-sufficiency and independent living
- Anger management training and support services
JCT is run by Program Manager Ms. Tish, who is an extraordinary advocate for the youth in her care and remarkably dedicated to our mission. She works with the staff to build on their strengths to deliver the best services to youth at JCT.