West Ridge Academy

West Ridge Academy, a non profit treatment program, offers a full continuum of Clinical Services while modeling a normalized home like setting using "practice parents" as we reiterate the skills and principles taught in The Family Teaching Model. Our continuum of care includes: • Residential Treatment including Aftercare • Day Treatment • In Home Services • Out Patient • Community Groups • Assessment Our clinical work emphasizes relationship based therapy for teens ages 9-18 augmented with the use of: • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) • Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) • Neurofeedback Our teens live in On Site Homes with staff that emulate parents and give them an opportunity to practice interactions they struggle with at home. Our staff are heavily trained in the following: • de-escalation tactics • processing interactions • integrating coping skills • problem solving In addition to our clinical services West Ridge offers a Sports, Music and Arts, and Recreational Therapy Programs. In sports we compete with public and private high schools in division 1A: • Basketball (Boys and Girls) • Baseball (Boys) • Volleyball (Girls) • Cross Country (Boys and Girls) • Track (Boys and Girls) We integrate the use of Music, Arts, and Recreation Therapy to offer healthy outlets to our teens.