Meadowridge Academy offers comprehensive treatment to adolescent males and females with mental health issues, behavioral difficulties and complex trauma histories through the use of individualized care and strengths based, trauma informed treatment. We use the evidenced based treatment model- ARC to help students build positive relationships, learn self regulation skills, and transform their individual interests into sources of strength, resiliency and success.
This service is for -
- Focus: We utilize innovative sensory regulation techniques, animal assisted therapy, vocational training and expressive arts to meet each student's individual needs while providing endless opportunities for exploration, growth and independence.
- Age: 12-22
- Gender: male, female, transgender, non-conforming
- Capacity: 36
Meadowridge Academy is a comprehensive therapeutic residential school located on 6.2 acres in rural MA. Students range from low to average and high cognitive functioning, and may have learning disabilities as well as medical fragility. Meadowridge Academy strives to make a positive difference in the lives of our students through individualized care and strengths based, trauma informed treatment. We use the ARC model to help students build positive relationships, learn and practice self regulation skills, and transform their individual interests into sources of strength, resiliency and success. We partner with families and communities to meet each student's individual needs while providing endless opportunities for exploration, growth and independence. We provide comprehensive treatment through a multidisciplinary team approach that includes clinical, educational, vocational, residential, psychiatric and nursing services. Our unique focus on sensory regulation, vocational training and animal assisted interventions are integral in the success of our students.
Meadowridge Academy students have the unique opportunity to engage in parallel work through use of the animals on campus. Research shows that adolescents who experienced developmental trauma have significant difficulty accessing their frontal lobe due to it being underdeveloped. Through use of the animals on campus, students are able to self and co-regulate their energy and emotions, and slowly bring their frontal lobes back online. Simultaneously, students strengthen vocational and self-care skills and begin to develop a positive sense of self through building responsibility by working with the animals. For Meadowridge Academy students who have limited interpersonal skills and lack the ability to engage in traditional talk therapy session, parallel work is incorporated during session where students discus their emotions through the animals. This provides Clinicians the opportunity to engage in trauma-focused interventions to build off of these statements and provide the students with better clinical treatment.
