Brightside for Families & Children

 

Services

Comprehensive Treatment Components

Brightside's comprehensive mental health and social service programs include:
-Residential Treatment for children and adolescents.
-Special Education Day School program.
-Community-based Family Stabilization and Support Programs.
-Group, Family, and Individual Thearpy.
-Psychiatric and Psychological Evaluation.

Overview

The Brightside Treatment Center and Campus School is a therapeutic milieu that provides treatment for children with psychiatric, learning, emotional and behavioral difficulties, and their families. The Center offers residential treatment services for boys and girls ages 7 - 17 in four campus-based units and a community-based program.
The Brightside Campus School is a Chapter 766 approved private school divided into elementary, middle and high school components. The school also offers a pre-vocational and vocational evaluation program and the opportunity for students to participate in two different vocational curricula. Some students who transition to the community based residential program may also have the opportunity to attend a public school.

For a Fact Sheet on the Treatment Center Residential Program, click here.

For a Fact Sheet on the Campus School Program, click here.

Brightside Treatment Center and Campus School offers a variety of opportunities, including:

* Recreational on- and off-campus activities
* Olympic-sized swimming pool
* Basketball courts
* Baseball diamond
* Athletic fields
* Regularly scheduled goal-focused activities
* Outdoor Adventure Programming (canoeing, hiking/backpacking)
* School and community sports teams participation
* Community volunteers who participate in a variety of our programs (reading clubs, games night)
* Regular trips to the Basketball Hall of Fame for sponsored activities and events