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Academy at Swift River: Private School or RTC
Deborah:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---"Special Needs" refers to any child who qualifies for services under federal disabilities law in order for that child to receive a FAPE (Free, appropriate, public education). Again, this is all federal--this part (basic qualification standards under one or both of these two statutes) doesn't vary from state to state.
Some of the kids at ASR might be dual diagnosis and qualify for special ed under more than one category.
Julie
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Yes, that is accurate, based on what I've read, but isn't relevant to the licensing issue. It would be if we were discussing Mass residents who are attending ASR, whose parents want the school district to pay via FAPE.
From EEC:
Group Care Programs must be licensed.
What is a Group Care Program?
A Group Care Program is a program or facility that provides care and custody for one or more children by anyone other than a relative by blood, marriage or adoption on a regular 24-hour a day, residential basis.
ASR does.
Group care program may [/b]include, but not be limited to, a school age child with special needs as determined by an evaluation conducted pursuant to M.G.L. c. 71B, ยง 3, and as defined by the Department of Education in 603 CMR 28.00
And MGL C 71b addresses FAPE, IEP for Mass residients.
Troll Control:
--- Quote from: ""Dysfunction Junction"" ---From ASR's website:
--- Quote ---Academically, our students are not reaching their full potential in the classroom, and are often discouraged by learning differences that have never been successfully addressed.
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i.e Special Needs students.
--- Quote ---After treatment in an Aspen residential program, both parents and teens indicated the teens? emotional problems had been reduced to a normal range.
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Providing treatment.
--- Quote ---What Parents And Their Teens Told Researchers: Upon admission, teens were experiencing various psychological and social challenges including:
Disruptive behavior disorders
Substance abuse
Mood disorders
Learning disorders
Eating disorders
Personality disorders
Anxiety
Trauma
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i.e. Special Needs and psychologically disturbed patients.
--- Quote ---One member of the faculty and two consultants offer support for Special Learning Needs, and attention is paid to records and background at the time of a student's enrollment.
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i.e. Special Needs. BTW, where's the certified Special Ed teacher?
--- Quote ---Our Team Model:
Clinical Director
Students assigned a Masters level counselor who heads a team.
Individual Therapy 1x/week
Group Counseling 3x/week
Team Groups, Themed Groups (Mood Management, Adoption, Loss, Eating Disorders, Relapse Prevention
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i.e. Therapy and Drug Treatment.
--- Quote ---The emotional growth and counseling program at Academy at Swift River boarding school for boys and girls focuses on trust and honesty, especially in terms of the individual child's personal story. Peer group development continues and the intensive cognitive and emotional aspects of the therapeutic program begin.
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i.e. Therapy and Group Therapy.
Sure as hell doesn't fit the requirements of a "school." Clearly a residential treatment center.
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This about sums it up.
I think this spells it out very clearly in ASR's own words, quoted directly from the website. Special needs.
TheWho:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---In all of the following, whenever I say something about ASR, it is all just my personal opinion.
As any parent who's spend the countless hours, days, weeks, accumulating the knowledge to navigate the system and then navigating the system for disability advocacy for their own child knows:
"Special Needs" refers to any child who qualifies for services under federal disabilities law in order for that child to receive a FAPE (Free, appropriate, public education). Again, this is all federal--this part (basic qualification standards under one or both of these two statutes) doesn't vary from state to state.
Most specifically, it means any child who qualifies for a 504 plan or an IEP plan.
For a 504 plan, you can qualify based on OHI (other health impaired) or EBD (emotionally or behaviorally disordered).
Some of the kids at ASR might be dual diagnosis and qualify for special ed under more than one category.
Virtually every child ASR claims to service, if the child actually has the problems the parents and ASR say he has, would qualify for a 504 plan in the EBD category.
Julie
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Thanks Julie, Thats the answer to my question. So it seems the key is how the term "Special needs" is defined by the State and how the kids at ASR are categorized by them. If the state feels they are "Special needs" students (or at least 30% of them) then ASR will be required to be licensed by order of the EEC as a "Group Care Program"
Troll Control:
Yeah, they're a RTC. They need to license.
hanzomon4:
Who, ASR mainly provides special needs services. It doesn't matter whether or not the kids fit the special needs moniker according to a dx because the services given define their designation.
It doesn't make one bit of sense for any facility to offer special services to people who don't need them. Thats like a hospital claiming to be a hotel because the residents aren't sick yet still providing all of the services of a hospital, it's madness..........
If you want to draw blood, operate, or perform any service provided by a hospital you have to follow the rules and regulations that govern a hospital
If you want to have mandatory group therapy, psychotherapy, or any other special service you gotta get the license that govern such services.........
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