Devereux Glenholme offers a wide range of supportive services to assist students with individual and family goals. The Glenholme staff work collectively as an interdisciplinary team to directly affect and make changes with the student and their family. The four ingredients necessary to achieve therapeutic treatment are environmental design, planning, consistency and predictability. Students excel in the program when this occurs. Students participate in a full academic school day, instructional based activities in the evening, weekly individual therapy, and family therapy. Students may participate in extra curricular activities such as the athletic sports programs, student leadership council, drama, chorus, fine arts, technology, music, campus radio station, community service and the equestrian program. In addition to the interscholastic sports offered, the students also participate in daily recreational campus sports and activities as a part of their social and cooperative group interaction. Intramural games such as kick ball, capture the flag, relay races, Frisbee toss, flag football, floor hockey, softball, soccer, tennis, and basketball all focus on teamwork, respect, responsibility, and fairness. These activities are planned and implemented by the residential instructors and are in keeping with the behavioral and socialization goals the students are working on.
The residential program is a teaching model outside of the traditional classroom environment. Planned activity based instruction is a key factor to the success of Glenholme's residential treatment. Lesson plans integrate student treatment objectives, socialization skills and character values. Character education is a natural fiber woven into every program and teaching opportunity. Glenholme embraces core values that explain and demonstrate Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, Community Service, Kindness and Fairness. Teaching students to cooperate and learn new skills builds confidence, pride and self-esteem. The residential staff provide students with daily instruction on how to care for the home, personal belongings, and how to live cooperatively with other students.
The weekends provide additional opportunities for students to engage in planned on-campus and off-campus events to improve upon independent socialization skills. Glenholme offers a seasonal range of activities for younger and older students designed to occur within the cottage groups and in special activity groups. Glenholme’s student council works collaboratively with the weekend planning staff to explore activity options and arrange regular events from Friday to Sunday evenings. Students are eligible to attend the events based on their weekly behavior and identified individual needs. Examples of planned activities are Friday night movies, Saturday afternoon shopping trips, restaurant dining in the evening, Sunday Brunch, and Sunday ice skating parties. Examples of planned cottage activities include intramural sports, board games, baking, swimming, arts & crafts, hiking, and snowshoeing.
The Glenholme School has established excellent business relationships with area vendors and shopkeepers to aide in providing the best possible environment and services for the students to be responsible consumers. Additional recreational trips are being researched such as ski trips and bus tours to historical sites. In the case of larger trips, there may be occasion for parent(s) to supplement additional funding to offset the price of the event.
The Glenholme Motivational Management Approach utilizes a positive peer management technique known as The Peer Partner Program. The program is designed to identify each student's behavioral characteristics and allows students to use their natural leadership skills to encourage and motivate students to work together as a team. The residential staff provides students with leadership training to become role models for their peers. In addition, the staff members instruct and coach students to develop teamwork, problem solving and organizational skills. Together, they develop behavioral strategies to improve peer and adult relationships.
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