Program areas at Walker
The Walker intensive residential treatment program (irtp) was created to help high-risk, multiple-complex children and their families build social, emotional, and behavioral competencies so they may achieve and maintain a permanent family connection while preventing the damage of serial placement disruptions. The Walker irtp is a nationally accredited, fully licensed and chapter 766-approved program that serves children between the ages of 5 and 13 who can be maintained in a staff-secure group setting.
Walker beacon school is a fully accredited, co-educational alternative middle and high school program that provides academic and specialized programs in a therapeutic environment for students ages 12 to 22 from the greater boston area.
The day treatment and education program is a chapter 766-approved academic day program for children with histories of high-risk behaviors, chronic mental illness, language disorders, learning disabilities, and/or high-functioning autism spectrum disorders.
Walker community counseling provides support to make positive life changes in a safe and comfortable environment. Practitioners utilize an ecological approach that addresses individual, family, environmental and community factors. Walker community counseling includes clinical social workers, mental health counselors, master level clinical interns, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurse prescribers. Walker community counseling practitioners are trained in the application of a variety of evidence-based practices to diagnose and treat behavior challenges, emotional issues, trauma, and other complex mental health needs.
The acute residential program is a hospital-diversion programspecifically designed to provide emergency short-term stabilizationsupport to children between the ages of 3 and 10 who are actively insevere emotional and behavioral crisis.
The ain group home is an intensive group home (1:3), coeducationalprogram for children ages 5 to 13 and their families. As an intensivegroup home, the ain group home provides a safe, strucured, home-like living environment. While on-site, children receive comprehensivetreatment that includes clinical services, health services, psychiatricconsultation, occupational therapy, and case management. Outside of theresidence, children participate fully in the community by attendingcommunity-based schools, camps, extracurricular activities, and socialand recreational events.
Walker solutions provides consultation, direct staffsupport, home-based services, professional development, and student andprogram evaluation services to more than 55 school systems and severaleducational collaboratives in the greater boston and worcester areas.
The therapeutic after-school program (tasp) was created to providepsychoeducational and structured recreational group activities, outsideof the classroom, tailored to the need of the students enrolled.located at the Walker beacon school, tasp serves up to 8 youth betweenthe ages of 6 and 13 offering supports such as individualized actionplans, group therapy, case management and coordination, educationalsupport and assistance, family engagement, and discharge and transitionplanning to prepare students for inclusion in a less structuredsetting.