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Heal The Past...A comprehensive trauma-informed assessment to understand the student’s history and formulate an individualized treatment plan. -
Strengthen the Present...The ARC methodology is focused on building the student’s core, constructing a set of internal skills to manage daily interactions with family, school, and the larger community. -
Find the Future...The van der Kolk Center is ultimately about empowering our students with the skills and the hope to achieve their life goals.
Who We Are
The van der Kolk Center at Glenhaven Academy is dedicated to providing world-class trauma-informed treatment to adolescents with complex trauma, mental illness, and behavioral struggles.
Only the van der Kolk Center uses state of the art trauma specific models of treatment including the unique ARC treatment methodology, and works to ensure this treatment model is pervasive throughout all aspects of programming. Developed through the cutting edge work of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and his colleagues at the Trauma Center at JRI these intensive, individualized treatment interventions feature an array of services designed with a single goal in mind: to prepare our students for a strong, healthy future.
The van der Kolk Center accepts private referrals as well as school system and state social service, youth service, mental health agency placements and educational agency referrals. Contact us for additional information.
Blog
Read the amazing story of Britteny, a recent graduate of the van der Kolk Center, in the below link. Britteny herself wanted to tell this story.
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Kudos to Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, our distinguished and passionate JRI colleague, for keeping the issue of trauma at the forefront of the public discussion on our national priorities. We are...