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- EIN 04-2105939
- 413-739-5626
- The Children's Study Home 44 Sherman St Springfield MA 01109 USA
- http://www.studyhome.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Education, Family Services, Group Homes, Human Services, Special Education
Mission: When the Springfield Home for Friendless Women and Children was established on April 27,1865, it became the first charitable institution of its kind not only in Springfield, but also in all of Western Massachusetts. The "Home" was founded to respond to a multitude of problems facing widowed women and children at the end of the Civil War era. With over 135 years of continuous service and d.b.a. The Children's Study Home, we continue our mission of providing needed services to troubled children and families in our community through high quality educational, residential, and community based services.
Target demographics: At-risk youth throughout the Pioneer Valley and Cape Cod
Geographic areas served: Western MA & Cape Cod
Programs: The children's study home, inc. (the home) operates three intensive residential programs serving boys and girls from ages 6 to 18. With two programs in springfield and one in falmouth, we serve children throughout the commonwealth and provide structured settings with strong staff supervision and carefully designed clinical, life skill, transitional support and recreation services. Each child has an individually designed service plan with specific goals and objectives focused on preparing that child for a successful transition back home, to a permanent foster home or to independent living. Progress is closely monitored and behavioral plans adjusted as a child progresses throguh the program, and individual and family therapy is utilized as indicated. Residential treatment # of clients serves: 66
our mill pond campus houses are dese approved special education schools serving students from grades 1 to 12. The children's study home schools provide strong academic education in a structured behavioral environment, children in our schools follow individually designed behavioral plans that help them improve academic performance as well as socialization. Both group and individual instruction are utilized to enhance academic performance within a state approved mcas curriculum. Electives include physical education, vocational training in an active shop, technology and computers and art. # of clients served: 47
these growing programs reflect our commitment to "building healthy families". We believe that family is the center of a child's life experience, and that whenever possible, preservation of the family unit should be supported. This array of parent education, family support, stabilization, and visitation services help families address problems that are destabilizing to the family and/or putting a child at risk for out of home placement. Our effective, intensive interventions are designed to keep children safe and strengthen family units. Foster care services are also provided to ensure that children in need of out of home placements have access to families who can develop close relationships and provide a strong substitute environment. Our consistent success in keeping families intact and the community is reflected in the most important way, by families who don't become statistics. # of clients served: 262
independent/supported living