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Day Treatment Program

The Waterford Day Treatment Program is a service program for emotionally impaired students. The program is designed to foster positive growth and change in social and emotional behaviors to enhance the individual's ability to function both at home and in the community, as well as leading to successful reintegration in the local school district. 

The goal of Waterford Day Treatment is to offer an educational milieu for emotionally impaired students in Oakland County whose degree of impairment is so severe that the Local Educational Agency has determined that local programming is unable to meet the individual student's needs.  The Waterford Day Treatment Program is designed to foster positive growth in the form of educational advancement and improved social/emotional coping skills.  This is accomplished by providing a corrective emotional experience. 

The Waterford Day Treatment Program may not be appropriate for all emotionally impaired students.  Waterford Day Treatment Program is not intended to be the EI placement for districts that are not providing adequate services at the local level.  Program services are designated for students who are intellectually capable of benefiting from cognitive counseling and behavior management level systems.   Each placement slot is extremely costly and should only be used for students who can be reasonably expected to cycle through the program and return to their home district.   Day Treatment students should not remain in a program for years without making significant progress.

Prior to a Day Treatment referral, local school districts are expected to exhaust local resources.

The Day Treatment Program is designed for emotionally impaired students who:

    a) have been recently discharged from an inpatient psychiatric hospital setting, who have been identified as   Emotionally  Impaired by their local district;

    b) have been receiving services in a self-contained setting in the resident district and have been unsuccessful in that setting.  These students require a setting which emphasizes treatment of emotional problems in order to benefit from education.

Day Treatment is not intended to be the EI placement for districts that are not providing adequate services at the local level.

Processing the referral includes a review of the paperwork, observation of student in home district, a visit to the day treatment program by the student and parents/guardians to meet to determine whether or convene in IEP for placement, or work with the local district to develop an appropriate treatment plan at the local level.

Waterford Day Treatment program currently operates six classrooms,  elementary school rooms , upper middle school rooms and high school rooms.  Each classroom is staffed with one full-time teacher , one full-time social worker, and two full-time teaching assistants.

Supervisor:  John Gregory

Day Treatment Coordinator:    Matthew Lumetta
Day Treatment Transition Coordinator:  Heather Wiley

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