The Butler Center, for 17 adolescent boys, is designed to treat seriously troubled boys with emotional disturbances.

Operating in a facility renovated in 2001, The Butler Center provides an opportunity for emotionally disturbed boys to develop and practice strategies that ultimately enable them to modulate their behavior and manage their mental illnesses. Treatment is delivered by a multi-disciplinary team compromised of licensed clinicians, educators with certification in Special Education, and trained Youth Counselors.

The boys receive a full day of education at an approved in-house school in addition to daily therapy and training in activities of daily living and prevocational skills. Butler residents receive academic credit and diplomas or adequate GED preparation to pass the examination for an equivalence certificate.

Skilled clinicians provide individual treatment, psycho-educational groups and social learning modules that enable each resident to make a more skilful pro-social adjustment to his surroundings. Each resident is assigned a primary and family therapist upon admission who guides the resident's course of treatment and education throughout his stay at The Butler Center.

The Program is intensely therapeutic and highly structured. All treatment efforts are directed toward insuring the resident's safe return to home and school, while minimizing the individual's length of stay at The Butler Center.

Butler Center Contact Information

Butler Center
Allen Hall, 288 Lyman Street, P.O. Box 728,
Westborough, MA 01581
Phone: (508) 475-2613
Fax: (508) 475-2604
butler@ jri.org

Emily Daniels, Residential Director
Michael Morrill, Director
Candy Malina, Clinical Director