Founder and President, Clarence Sutton, created CTS through his vision of improving the quality of life for children who have experienced unfortunate situations beyond their control. Clarence’s passion for fostering and restoring a child’s belief in his/her potential has continued to be a motivating factor in the agency's and staff's best practices.
CTSHealth addresses the needs of our clients, their natural support systems, and the community as a whole. We work together to instill hope and provide the necessary care for all participants through the treatment process. We are a group of experienced professionals offering the most effective, personalized approaches for your difficulties.
We incorporate the philosophical and clinical views of the Integrated Care Model, Person Centered Thinking, System of Care and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. With these approaches, we’re able to identify and increase the emotional, cognitive, social, and psychological functioning of our clients. We provide guidance, education, and skills to caregivers to become better equipped to assist individuals in their care. Our professional teams are committed to safeguarding the continuity of care through collaboration with all participants involved in assisting the client through the treatment process.
Mental health is imperative to a patient’s quality of life and equally as important to a patient’s lifespan as their physical health. Integrated care occurs when mental health specialty services and general medical care providers work together to address both the physical and mental health needs of their patients.
This coordinated care model allows health providers to properly manage concerning behavioral health struggles such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse at a lower cost, while improving the overall health of the patient. Our work with educated health care providers and systems enables us to deliver high-quality services and implement evidence-based integrated care models.
The goal of System of Care is to help families help their children succeed at home, in school and in the community. In North Carolina and nation-wide, System of Care is considered the best way of planning, developing and delivering services to children and their families. Because children are not little adults, their services must be planned and delivered in ways that fully involve their families, peer groups, neighborhoods, schools and community. This is especially important for children who have serious challenges related to their behaviors, health, school performance and safety at home, in their schools, and in the community. System of Care is fundamentally changing the relationships families have to the service system at every level. Collaboration and partnership between families and service providers is the thread that links successful programs, policies and practices. Many federal and state policies mandate parent involvement. Parents now provide services, act as advocates for change, mentor other families, shape programs, create policies and carry out public service agendas. Parents and professionals working collaboratively as partners are now recognized as a best practice. These collaborative partnerships have resulted in measurable and direct positive benefits for families, children and providers.
Just as the phrase “person centered” suggests, a person centered approach is about ensuring a person with a disability is at the center of decisions which relate to their life. The ultimate goal is to understand what each individual person wants and needs to live their own, personally defined, good life.
Person-centered therapy harnesses the client’s natural self-healing process. Given the right relationship with the therapist, clients can decide what they want to do with their lives. To this end, person-centered therapy is a personal growth model also known as non-directive therapy.
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment approach shown to help children, adolescents, and their caregivers overcome trauma-related difficulties. It is designed to reduce negative emotional and behavioral responses following child sexual abuse, domestic violence, traumatic loss and other traumatic events. The treatment—based on learning and cognitive theories—addresses distorted beliefs and attributions related to the abuse and provides a supportive environment in which children are encouraged to talk about their traumatic experience. TF-CBT also helps parents who were not abusive to cope effectively with their own emotional distress and develop skills that support their children.
Founder and President, Clarence Sutton, created CTS through his vision of improving the quality of life for children who have experienced unfortunate situations beyond their control. Clarence’s passion for fostering and restoring a child’s belief in his/her potential has continued to be a motivating factor in the agency's and staff's best practices.