Hunting for More Love (HFML) provides a wide range of wrap-around services which includes psychiatric services to emotionally disordered children, 24-hour supervision, and support to teen boys in a home-like setting.
The operation accepts both non-emergency and emergency placements for boys between the ages of 8-17, providing therapeutic services for those diagnosed with Emotional Disorder, Intellectual Developmental Disability, and Autism.
HFML provides treatment in the context of a variety of specialized conditions and behaviors, ensuring each child receives the targeted support they need.
Youth in this service package present with diagnosed or suspected emotional, behavioral, or conduct-related disorders. These youth may experience emotional escalation, difficulty managing frustration, impulsivity, mood instability, or challenges with authority and peer interactions. Diagnoses may include depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD, PTSD-related disorders, or disruptive behavior disorders. HFML supports these youth through coordinated on-site therapy, regulated caregiving responses, and daily opportunities to practice coping and communication skills across settings.
Youth served under the IDD/Autism service package may have diagnosed or suspected intellectual or developmental disabilities and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder, often alongside trauma-related needs. These youth may present with delays in communication, social interaction challenges, sensory sensitivities, rigid thinking, difficulty with transitions, or challenges with adaptive functioning. HFML provides enhanced structure, clear routines, and individualized coaching to support communication, daily living skills, regulation, and successful participation in group activities. Placement fit is evaluated carefully to ensure the program environment and available supports align with the youth’s needs. These youth may require enhanced structure, clear routines, sensory accommodations, and individualized coaching to support communication, transitions, daily living skills, and regulation. HFML evaluates placement fit carefully to ensure the program environment and available supports align with the youth’s needs.
Youth in this service package present with substance use concerns or histories that require coordinated therapeutic support, supervision, and skill-building. Youth may demonstrate impaired decision-making, difficulty with impulse control, avoidance of responsibility, or engagement in risky behaviors related to substance use. Substance use concerns may co-occur with trauma histories, mental health diagnoses, or peer influence. HFML integrates substance use treatment services with daily programming, life skills, healthy coping skills and relational support to promote accountability, regulation, and sustained engagement.
Youth served under this service package present with a history of sexualized or aggressive behaviors that require enhanced supervision, individualized safety planning, and coordination with specialized treatment providers. These youth may demonstrate boundary violations, poor impulse control, limited insight into the impact of their behavior, or difficulty following safety expectations. Otentimes, these youth have been victimized themselves or had access to early sexual experiences that impact their understanding of sexual safety. HFML supports these youth through predictable routines, consistent boundaries, close supervision, and alignment between residential staff and external clinicians to reinforce treatment goals and safe behaviors.
Hunting for More Love (HFML) staff uses a trauma-informed approach to help struggling clients reconnect with their family, peers, and the community through the Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) program model.
Therapeutic care treatment is provided by a professional team employing a social model. We utilize group interaction to teach accountability, social skills, and ownership of one’s behavior, emotions, and life choices.