Private, personalized, and intimate
Ustick Rd., Boise Residential House
We Accept Insurance
Clean, comfortable, and safe accommodations
A strong focus on family participation and support
Small-group setting guarantees personalized attention
Avery’s House is a residential treatment facility for adolescents struggling with behavioral and mental health issues. Our home promotes hope, healing, and new beginnings. Take a moment to explore our facility gallery and learn more about our staff and programs.
Facility highlights
Avery’s House is a comfortable and modern living environment designed to feel like a home away from home.
- Personalized care and attention: We house a maximum of fourteen residents (two per room) at a time to ensure a high level of attention and care.
- Round-the-clock support: Our dedicated staff provide 24/7 care, maintaining safety and support day and night.
- Comfortable and modern: Our all-gender facility includes single-gender living spaces to foster comfort and respect privacy.
- Comprehensive wellness: Our home has luxurious leisure areas for residents to relax and unwind.
- Meals and nutrition: We offer daily on-site breakfast and healthy catered lunches and dinners that are customizable to all dietary preferences.
- Community activities: We regularly hold park nights, karaoke nights, bake nights, treat nights, and game nights to build camaraderie and social skills.
- Equine therapy: This off-site activity offers unique therapeutic experiences.
10787 W Ustick Rd
Avery's House
Address Information
Location Address
10787 W Ustick Rd, Boise,
ID 83713, United States (Google Maps)
Program Benefits
- Personalized attention: Our counseling is customized to build trust and suit each teen’s unique needs, strengths, and goals.
- A structured environment: The regular routines and consistency of our daily program promote healing and personal development.
- Peer support: In our program, teens bond with peers enduring similar challenges, exchanging stories and forming long-lasting supportive relationships.
Staff highlights
Discover the exceptional qualifications and compassionate approach of our staff, who are foundational to the transformative care we provide.
- Educated and empathetic: Our masters-level therapists have extensive training and bring personal experiences that enhance connection and understanding.
- Comprehensive caregiving: Our services—all underpinned by a trauma-informed approach—include case management, psych services, and medication management.
- Sensitivity: Our staff are experts in trauma care, providing compassionate and informed support tailored to each resident’s needs.
- Wellness advocates: Our overall wellness strategy includes dietary guidance to foster holistic health.
Dusti Huddleston
Clinical Director
We accept insurance
We work with most major insurance providers to minimize out-of-pocket costs. Let’s check to see if your provider will cover your teen’s treatment.
Program highlights
Explore the core pillars of our program, which are designed to support and enrich the recovery journey of each adolescent in our care.
Duration
The program usually lasts 6 to 8 weeks, but length varies based on each resident’s unique case and our clinicians’ professional recommendations.
Modalities
Our treatment includes personalized plans featuring cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), which are proven to promote healing and personal growth.
Group Support
Our group therapy, which is rooted in trauma-informed care, enhances coping strategies and fosters resilience and a supportive peer community.
Educational Advocacy
Avery’s House mandates that each resident participate in an educational track tailored to their specific needs and goals, ensuring they maintain a fruitful academic path.
Case Management Services
This service manages treatment details, supports families, and ensures each teen has everything they need to recover and thrive. In short, it ensures all aspects of the program work together smoothly.
Psychiatric Services with Medication Management
Treatment at Avery’s House includes a thorough evaluation by a qualified psychiatrist, who will recommend medication for teens who need it, tailoring and monitoring regimens to optimize outcomes.
Stay involved in your child’s healing journey
Studies consistently demonstrate that teens experience better recovery outcomes, including fewer behavioral problems and improved overall well-being, when parents actively participate in their treatment. The positive impact of parent participation is clear and compelling, making it an indispensable element of effective adolescent care.
Avery’s House therefore includes the following parent involvement in its treatment plans:
- Weekly visitation: Parents are invited to visit their child for two hours every Sunday.
- Family therapy sessions: Parents participate in weekly family therapy sessions with their child and their therapist.
- Parent support group: Parents are required to join a weekly parent support group to gain essential tools for supporting their child.
- Weekly phone calls: Teens in our program can call home up to three times a week on scheduled nights, which helps keep family connections strong during the program.
Note: This list is only a guide. An official and comprehensive packing list will be emailed to you along with other essential information. Refer to this list for more details on what to bring to our program.
What to bring: Packing for comfort and care
As your teen prepares to join our residential treatment program, it’s important to pack everything needed to make their stay comfortable and conducive to healing. Since they will be living on-site throughout their treatment, we recommend packing essential items that will help transform our center into a home away from home. Here’s a list of suggested items to bring:
- Identification (e.g., driver’s license, school ID)
- Insurance card (if applicable)
- Prescribed medications
- Clothing (one week’s worth)
- Appropriate sleepwear
- Workout attire
- Toiletries (that contain no alcohol and are non-aerosol)
- Electric shaving razor
- Books
- Journal and writing utensils
- Photos of family members and/or friends
- School work, if needed
A typical day in our residential program
The following is a glimpse of a typical day at Avery’s House, giving you an idea of the structured yet supportive environment our residential program offers teens. The daily schedule is flexible and may be adjusted based on a teen’s individual needs and clinician recommendations, ensuring personalized care throughout.
Admissions process
Whether your child is beginning or continuing their recovery, enrolling in a teen program at Avery’s House is a simple 3-step process that begins with a phone call or message.
1- The initial phone call
Tell us your teen’s story, explore treatment approaches, and discuss payment options.
2- Pre-screening
Confirm treatment, verify insurance coverage, and learn details about what to expect.
3- Start therapy
Arrive at Avery’s House, meet our other participants and staff, tour the facility, and get your teen settled in.
Tamara Helfer
Medical Director
FAQs
- What type of therapy do you do? We employ only evidence-based therapeutic modalities, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectal behavior therapy (DBT).
- Do you offer trauma therapy? All our care is trauma informed. We also offer trauma therapy based on individual client needs.
- Is Avery’s House coed? We house both male and female adolescents. While living spaces are single sex, therapeutic groups are coed. We focus on teaching adolescents how to cohabitate appropriately and respectfully.
- What do you do about school? If possible, we try to work with the client’s current school. Many kids who come to Avery’s house are struggling in school and need to catch up; others find school very important and are committed to staying on track. We have set hours every day for schooling, when staff are available to provide one-on-one help with schoolwork. This ensures residents progress academically.
- What does life after Avery’s House look like? Prior to discharge, we start planning aftercare with the client and their family. We offer ongoing virtual and in-person outpatient services to support the transition.
- Whom do I contact with billing questions? Upon admission, you will receive a financial agreement that outlines all costs. This agreement will include phone numbers for both our billing director and controllers.
Cole Sewall
Program Manager