Whitaker School

Whitaker School, located in Butner, is a long-term treatment program for emotionally handicapped adolescents, ages 13-17, possessing secondary handicapping conditions including education, social, behavioral, neurological, and intellectual deficits. Adolescents can stay up to a year in this non-medical alternative program which emphasizes the re-educational model of service.

Through Whitaker School, staff mobilizes the home community resources to build a network of services, to meet the students' individual needs and the needs and expectations of the family, school, and community. Adolescents are provided individual treatment on increasing academic, social, and behavioral competencies which can be demonstrated and transferred into less restrictive environments. Area Programs serve as the primary portal of entry to Whitaker School.

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