Swansea Wood School is a therapeutic, year-long residential school serving adolescents and young adults who struggle with significant and chronic past trauma and/or organic illness and function at a mild-to-moderately cognitively impaired level. We offer students the opportunity to progress academically, remediate past academic challenges, and increase cognitive ability through clinical, vocational, milieu, and educational experiences.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) was selected as the academic model as it closely mirrors our clinical model, ARC. Both emphasize understanding and supporting each student’s unique needs while also showcasing their strengths in order to help maximize their potential. Our flexibility and planning allow us to cultivate an environment that provides students’ a sense of safety and trust in their relationships, that in turn, supports emotion regulation and engaged learning.
Swansea Wood School is committed to providing each student with the clinical services necessary to help them achieve their goals. We are trauma-informed in all areas of our program, which supports the work that students do in individual, family, and group therapy. The Swansea Wood School Therapists are master's-level clinicians and use a wide variety of clinical approaches and techniques in order to best meet the needs of each student. Clinical caseloads are low (roughly six students per therapist) to allow for intensive treatment and case management services.
The Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework is a core-components treatment model developed to provide a guiding framework for thoughtful clinical intervention in complexly traumatized youth and their care-giving systems. This intensive, individualized approach features an array of services and interventions designed with a single goal in mind: to prepare our students for a strong, healthy future.
Case House is an Off-Site living space for students who attend the Swansea Wood School and are ready to work on more independent living skills. While benefiting from the specialized services at Swansea Wood School, students at Case House live in a small, homelike environment that fosters safe and supportive relationships with peers and staff. This setting ensures that each student receives highly individualized transition planning to prepare them for the next steps in their lives.
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Students are typically referred through their local school district as part of the IEP process, but private pay options are also available. Please complete the inquiry form below to learn more.
Michael Zucarelli
Program Director
789 Stevens Road, Swansea, MA 02777
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