Services and Education: An Overview

Germaine Lawrence offers adolescent girls a comprehensive continuum of residential treatment that helps them to reduce their maladaptive behaviors, to develop age-appropriate social skills, and to make enough progress to enable them to live in the community safely again. Each program incorporates:

• Comprehensive clinical services that include individual, family and group therapy; psychiatric services; and a treatment protocol for sexual abuse survivors that has been adopted by other centers across the country
• A supportive special education program with a maximum of ten students per classroom, each staffed with a teacher and teaching assistant, and supported by a team of school counselors
• A structured, therapeutic, residential environment that ensures safety while promoting psychosocial growth through nurturance, praise and a focus on teaching social skills
• Specialized treatment protocols that reflect the girls’ special needs. This specialization allows our staff to be well trained for the unique issues presented by the girls with whom they work, and to achieve success with girls who have been unsuccessful in other placements.

Germaine Lawrence successfully prepares more than 80% of our students to move back home or to less restrictive community programs. This unparalleled success rate has helped us become the preferred placement choice of social workers, psychiatrists and judges throughout the region.