Steps To Success Day Treatment (STS) is a highly structured, state-licensed Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). Operating year-round, Monday through Friday up to four (4) hours per day, STS serves youth ages 10–14 who are experiencing significant mental health and behavioral challenges that disrupt their life at home, in school, and/or within their community.
Because day treatment is an intensive, medically necessary level of care, entering youth must have a mental health diagnosis. It serves as a vital bridge between inpatient hospitalization and standard outpatient care, typically utilized when lower-level interventions—such as standard outpatient individual, occupational, or school-based therapy—have not been sufficient to maintain stability.
Steps To Success has six (6) Core Program Goals:
- Stabilize mental health needs through a structured treatment environment
- Increase success at home, in school, and across the community
- Support parents and caregivers in successfully managing challenging behaviors
- Coordinate with school personnel to seamlessly integrate the child back into full school days
- Build on strengths while improving social and competency skills
- Assist families in meeting their unique, identified goals
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Meet the Steps to Success Team!
Nicky Benya, MSW, CAPSW
Randal Morgan, Human Services
Massendra Musial, LPC-IT
Lizbeth Ramirez, BS
Robin Sereno, MS
Anna Van Orsow, BS
Kaitlin Welsh, MSW, CAPSW
To fill out our Steps to Success Referral Form, please click here, or you can email referrals with any questions to steps@fsmad.org or call (608) 316-1172.
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