Summer School Program
Program Purpose
East End Therapeutic Summer School Program is established for the primary purpose of offering a comprehensive program incorporating individualized education instruction, therapeutic recreational services, and group counseling for children and adolescents, ages 7-15, in the Tidewater area. Many children and adolescents are experiencing academic difficulties, as well as social and leisure time by dysfunction in their communities.
Program Objectives
To provide comprehensive services in a therapeutic structured environment to meet the individual academic, social and behavior needs of students.
Program components consist of: Individualized Educational Instruction, Therapeutic Recreational Services, Group Counseling, Expressive Art, Mentoring and Prevocational Skills.
Population Overview
- Maximum 25 students
- Boys and girls, ages 7-15
- Youth having an IEP with designation of Seriously Emotional Disabled
- Youth at risk of negative behaviors during unstructured or unsupervised times
- Your in transition from Juvenile Justice setting, or more restrictive environment
- Youth with a defined serious mental health problem that can be diagnosed under DSM-IV
- Youth experiencing problems in personality development and/or social functioning that been exhibited over a period of 1 year
- Youth having problems that are significantly disabling as compared to the behaviors of other children of the same age or that have become more disabling over time
- Youth needing services that require significant interventions by more than one agency
Services Included in Daily Rate
- Therapeutic Recreation
- Transportation
- Breakfast, Lunch and Snack
- Weekly Field Trips
- Group Counseling, Anger Management
- Social Skills, Mentoring
- Self-Esteem Group and Activities
- Remediation in SOL's
- Expressive Art
- Pre-Vocational Skills