Walden Street School utilizes the Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) framework. This model, was developed to provide a guiding framework for thoughtful clinical intervention with complexly traumatized youth and their caregiving systems.  Drawing from the fields of trauma, attachment, and child development, the framework recognizes the importance of working with the child-in-context, of acknowledging the role of historical experiences and adaptive responses in current presentation, and of intervening with the surrounding environment – whether primary caregivers or treatment system – to support and facilitate the child’s healthy growth and development.  Rather than identify step-by-step intervention strategies, the framework identifies 10 key “building blocks”. This model allows for students to develop a healthy sense of self, while fostering healthy attachemets with peers and adults and mastering regulation skills.

Walden Street School also provides in home intensive services to support our students transition home successfully.  These intesnive services are individualized and flexible.  We work closely with students and their families to provide whatever assistance is necessary to keep families in the home successfully.