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MISSION STATEMENT
To provide a safe, caring, therapeutic environment where students with psychiatric, educational, and social challenges can best develop the skills and character necessary to rejoin their communities with success.

Beliefs and Values:
We believe that the quality of our student care depends upon:

• Forging positive interpersonal relationships
  
• Integrating our treatment services, school-wide
  
• Assuming our responsibilities with accountability
  
• Supporting the development of our staff
  
• Caring for the quality of our environment

Goals and Objectives:

• To provide psychoeducational treatment services that are conducive to positive student growth within a highly structured, consistent therapeutic residential environment.
  
• To provide interdisciplinary treatment teams that systematically develop, implement, and monitor our students' individual education and treatment plans.
  
• To provide educational, clinical, and residential programs that promote our students' development of competence and mastery of fundamental academic, vocational, interpersonal, and social skills necessary to compete positively upon return to their home communities.
  
• To promote character development among our student population through a comprehensive program that is founded upon mutual trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness, and citizenship.
  
• To assure the effective delivery of treatment services through staff support, supervision, training, and educational opportunities.