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CASTLE SCHOOL
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Linda Corwin, CEO
617-354-5410
admin@castleschool.org
www.castleschool.org
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Castle School is a community-based,
residential and day school for adolescents ages 13 to 17
with emotional and behavioral problems. The students at Castle
School have a variety of issues that
may include severe
conflict at home, school failure, behavior problems, self-destructive/
suicidal behavior, running, depression, social isolation,
substance
abuse, court contact, and psychiatric hospitalizations.
This
12-month
program offers a full-time school, a therapeutic living
experience and an array of clinical services designed to
meet the special
needs of its students. Castle
is not a locked facility so students must have some level
of self-control and enough emotional stability to adjust
to living in a group situation and forming attachments.
The treatment milieu is structured to provide educational
and psychological growth based on "experiential learning
and a carefully planned environment.”
Students learn responsible problem
solving that can apply in the real world, and they have a chance
to succeed "within a positive social
framework."
Castle School offers clinical services
under the supervision of their clinical coordinator who is
a licensed clinical social worker. Students participate
in
group and individual counseling within the program, as well
as in weekly psychotherapy at a local mental health
clinic or
with their personal therapist. Castle requires family involvement
in the therapy program if the child is working toward returning,
home and offers a variety of services including a family
support network, family therapy and a monthly family activity
day.
The academic component is taught year round by a team of
certified special education teachers and consists of a secondary-level
school program that is both special education-approved and
diploma-granting. The credits earned at Castle School may
be applied toward the students graduation requirements from
their home school. Castle also offers the opportunity for
older students to add to their curriculum by attending the
public high school and area colleges on a part-time basis.
Castle School is a treatment and educational
facility licensed by the Massachusetts Office for Children
and approved by the Massachusetts Division of Special Education.
It is a member of the Massachusetts Association of 766 Approved
Private School (MAAPS) and the Massachusetts
Council of Human Service Providers.
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