Pressley Ridge

Community based services - Pressley Ridge's community based services are supportive services offered to individuals or families in need of mental health or crisis intervention treatment. We offer in home crisis intervention, counseling, education and conflict resolution services to individuals and families in need of assistance. We also offer outpatient counseling services as part of this array. Our goal is to strengthen family relationships, keep children and families together and assist individuals with mental health or crisis issues in order for them to function independently in their homes and communities. The community based programs served 4,685 clients in the current tax year.

Educational services - at Pressley Ridge, education is collaborative, experimental, and engaging. Our schools provide high quality programs for youth with emotional/behavioral challenges, children with autism and children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Our approach is to help our students develop trusting relationships, improve social skills, enhance self-control, and build on their strengths. Academics as well as mental health services are provided with the goal of returning students to their home schools. The education program served 303 clients in the current tax year.

Foster care services - Pressley Ridge provides an array of foster care services including regular, intensive and specialized treatment foster care as well as adoption to children who have been removed from their biological homes. Our goal is to reunite children with their biological families when possible or to help them become adopted so that the children in our care have a permanent family. The foster care program served 1,738 clients in the current tax year.

Residential services - Pressley Ridge offers 24 hour 7 day a week intensive residential care services to children with emotional and behavioral challenges as well as specialized residential care for children who are deaf/hard of hearing and individuals with intellectual disabilities. Services provided include group and individual counseling, behavior management, conflict resolutions, crisis intervention, daily living skills, independent living skills, substance abuse education, and family counseling. The residential program served 110 clients in the current tax year.