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Support Therapy and Education Program for Students

STEPS is a program that Project Courage has put together that strives to helps students that need a different style of schooling, while maintaining their current curriculum while in school. 

4 key components of STEPS

  • Academic Instruction
  • Therapeutic Services
  • Community Engagement
  • Re-entry Services

STEPS is for Students Who:

  • Are being suspended
  • Are being expelled
  • Are truant
  • As a preventative service to disciplinary action when. When students are in need of services beyond the scope of school-based interventions or other strategies have proven unsuccessful
  • Student must have known or suspected substance abuse involvement
  • Academic Instruction We provide a tutor that helps the student organize their schedule. While providing assistance with all their school work. Our staff and tutors work with the school district to ensure that the curriculum and all assignments are completed while helping the student understand what they are learning outside of the standard schooling model.
  • Therapeutic Services Adolescent Mental Health is an area of expertise that Project Courage as a whole strives to be the best. We offer our counseling services that address a multitude of challenges that a student could be struggling with. All from substance use, vaping, family support, adolescent anxiety, stress management, developing healthy habits with nutrition, exercise and overall self-care. Practicing decision making tools that help in the present and stick with the student for life. Our services go in depth to help the student not just get through this time in their life but to prepare them for the future.

Reach out to our team for more information!

Project Courage offers personalized care due to its high number of credentialed clinicians. We work directly with students and schools to give the proper treatment created for a students needs. Clients receive a more hands-on treatment as clinicians caseloads are smaller. To learn more, please complete our online contact form here. Or, call our Admissions Department at 860.388.9656 to conduct a qualifying phone screen and insurance verification. 

  • Community Engagement  At Project Courage we value helping others. Our communities are part of our lives and giving back. It is a part of our goal to create a structured environment while helping others around the community. We will arrange a placement for the student that we feel is a good fit. 
  • Re-entry Services  Usually, but not always our STEPS program is temporary. We offer re-entry services back to school. Whether this be a legal process, certain criteria or expectations set by the school district.  We will work towards the goal of getting the student back to school in the normal setting. If this is not an option we can continue with STEPS until graduation.

School Based Counseling

Project Courage offers you and your loved ones the necessary resources to Support you during the school year. Our assessment and evaluation process is second to none, and during this process, we focus on the student, their loved ones, and environment to establish a program and routine that truly gives them the resources to succeed. We extract vital information and utilize these tools to elicit real change within our clients.

  • Assessment – We conduct a biopsychosocial assessment with every student. This helps to identify and uncover issues, establish realistic goals and create a unique treatment plan.
  • Individual Counseling – We help students by exploring their substance use and the impact it has on their life. Then, we arm students with new coping mechanisms and relapse prevention skills to help them in the future.
  • Referral – When one of our students needs a higher level of treatment(Intensive Outpatient Program, Residential Program), the School Based Counselor will work with the student and family to find the appropriate treatment services within our broad network of partners.
  • Class Presentations – We use Psychoeducation as a tool to teach students “Prevention Strategy” and give them information to education themselves on topics such as: Understanding Addiction, Factors that Influence Addiction, What Drugs Are, How Drugs Work, and Substance Use Prevention.
  • Family Work – If the student agrees, we will involve and work with the family unit to help educate and inform them on the client’s substance use, progress within our programs, and setting family goals to strive for and achieve together.
  • Guidance Coordination –  We collaborate and coordinate care with the school guidance department and other social workers to provide our students with the best possible treatment program.

If you are looking for more information on either of these programs please do not hesitate to reach out to our team. We are very proud of our STEPS and School Based Counseling programs as they have helped countless students and families.

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Reach out to our team for more information!

Project Courage offers personalized care due to its high number of credentialed clinicians. Clients receive a more hands-on treatment as clinicians caseloads are smaller. To learn more, please complete our online contact form here. Or please call our Admissions Department at 860.388.9656 to conduct a qualifying phone screen and insurance verification. 

“Project Courage really works hard to create individualized programs for students struggling in the traditional high school model. In a matter of two months, they were able to work closely with the high school team of general education, special education and support teachers to design a program for a student struggling to attend school and back on the high school track. Relationship building, respect and hard conversations are the essential elements the staff displayed in connecting with students. The Project Courage team is creative, and they think outside the box. They provide students with what they need in order to get back on track. They empower students to own their problems, resolve the issues and feel successful. I high recommend Project Courage as an agency to partner with in supporting students with mental health issues.” – Madeline Illinger, Director of Special Education and Student Support Services Westbrook Schools

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