JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE SOUTHEAST ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL CAPE COD CAMPUS 117 Stowe Road TEL #: (508) 420-6401 Sandwich, MA 02601 FAX#: (508) 824-2083 Contact(s): Mick Elia, Director [email protected] Karen Tewhey, CAS [email protected] Vice President of Education
Website: www.southeastalternative.org
Populations Served educational, clinical, vocational, social, recreational and behavioral needs. We ensure a strength-based foundation by Asperger's Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder, assessing the multiple intelligences of each student and Behaviorally Disordered, Emotionally Disturbed, Mild tailoring instruction accordingly. Our vocational component is Learning Disabled, Mood Disorder, Severe Maladaptive community-based, partnering with the business community to Behavior, Tourette’s Syndrome emphasize "real-life" skills needed to obtain and maintain employment. Students may participate in internships designed School Profile specifically for their needs and interests. In addition to Gender: M/F instruction that is aligned to the Massachusetts Curriculum Age Range Served: 12 - 22 Frameworks, individual, group, expressive arts, community Age at Admission: 12 - 22 service learning and milieu counseling are provided. The Program: Day school also employs a registered nurse, a technology Staff/Pupil Ratio: 1 : 6 coordinator and a speech and language specialist. The # of Months Open: 10.5 foundation of Southeast Alternative is our multidisciplinary # of Days Open: 198 team approach, which works as partners with the student, Current Enrollment: 24 his/her family, the public schools and collateral professionals. We are committed to comprehensive transition planning and returning students to a less restrictive environment as quickly Admissions Procedure as possible while still ensuring student success. Our Both campuses of our Southeast Alternative School comprehensive approach helps students to develop positive (Middleboro and Cape Cod) receive referrals from LEAs community connections while achieving personal goals such throughout the year. Referral packets containing current IEP, as returning to public schools, preparing for full-time recent educational and psychological testing, health/dental and employment, or moving towards further education or school records should be mailed to the School Director. vocational training. The school operates from mid-August to Admissions procedures include but are not limited to intake the end of June. interview, tour with prospective student and their family, and referral packet from public school. Because of our comprehensive work with families, creative programming and Location and Facilities flexibility, we are often used as a diversion or a step down The Cape Cod Campus is located Sandwich, at the YMCA from residential or hospital placements. Camp Lyndon facility. It has extensive recreational and environmental activities and resources. The campus has a up- to-date computer and Smart Board technology in the Approval/Licensing/Accreditation classrooms as well as PLATO, Kurzweil 3000 , Reading Plus, SAS is fully approved by the MA Department of Elementary and United Streaming thru Discovery Education software. and Secondary Education (DESE) as a private special education day school . History and Philosophy
Our educational services began in 1977 with the belief that Affiliations/Membership troubled youths could remain in the community, given the Mass Council of Human Service Providers, maaps, Child appropriate supports. We are known for our commitment to Welfare League, Asperger's Association of New England working with the whole child, encouraging extensive family (AANE), Cape and Islands Youth Council, Cape Cod involvement, fostering positive relationships, and promoting Neighborhood Support Coalition. resiliency among at risk youth. We work in partnership with our students, their parents or caretakers and collateral professionals. Programs and Services Southeast Alternative School offers students a comprehensive, supportive, therapeutic environment that addresses their