Education
SPRTC offers special education supports and services as required by Individualized Education Programs. In addition, SPRTC offers the ability to earn credits toward graduation, access to credit recovery options, life skills programming, and affective education courses. Opportunities to earn a GED are also available for qualifying candidates. SPRTC offers school year round.
DAY TREATMENT PROGRAM
SPRTC offers school-day support for local communities as an option for therapeutic special education support through local school districts. Day Treatment services are also provided over the summer for students who qualify for Extended School Year services.
Transition Life Skills
Center (SPRTC) Life Skills Program (LSP) is a 16-week, independent living curriculum designed to provide training focused on key self-sustainment skills required for adulthood living and survival. The SPRTC youth are provided with needed learning, enhancing, and supporting life skills to effectively transition into adulthood. The curriculum focuses on six categories: Health and Nutrition, Career Exploration, College Exploration / Preparation, Money Management, Housing and Home Management, and Risk Prevention. These categories are designed to address the many aspects of everyday adult living, focusing primarily on self-sustainment. The program instruction is facilitated using classroom, hands-on, and online techniques to best deliver the main elements of each.
R.E.C.
Recreation Therapy utilizes evidence-based interventions to address the perceived needs of an individual. This is a very hands on and experience-based type of therapy. We like to say it is therapy with fun! A Recreation Therapist might utilize interventions from an array of recreational activities to aid in the development of coping skills, social skills, frustration tolerance, anger management skills, fine or gross motor functioning, cognitive functioning, emotional intelligence, finding a purpose, spiritual enrichment, and over all wellbeing or life satisfaction. Interventions may include music, creative arts, physical activity, life skills, relaxation or mindfulness techniques, and community integration activities (outings). Every intervention has a purpose behind it and addresses a need of the individual(s).
WHO CAN BENEFIT? EVERYONE!
This includes staff! Staff members are encouraged to participate in Recreation Therapy groups with their units as this encourages higher rates of participation from youth.
Everyone, including adults, needs to play! Play/leisure activity is a vital part in our life satisfaction and provides opportunity for learning, growth, and development. Recreation does not have to look like only physical activity. The goal of Recreation Therapy is to incorporate a variety of recreational activities so that all needs are addressed and all youth benefit from the interventions.
