Programs & Services
PATHE - Positive Alternatives to Handling Emotions
PACE - Providing Access to Community Employment
Program Structure
- A separate public facility designed with 1 teacher and 2 para professionals per class.
- Classroom maximum of 10 students
- Programming offered for grades K-12 in five separate classrooms
- PACE - an extension of the Pathe programming housed at WCESC with an added community based component providing work experiences
Programming for Students
- With significant social-emotional and behavioral needs
- Whose needs are best met in a self-contained LRE setting with smaller class sizes and who require adult supervision to maintain safe and appropriate behavior
- Who benefit from direct social skills instruction, a therapeutic approach and an academic curriculum based off of the Ohio Academic and Extended Standards
- With an emphasis of transitioning back to a general education setting in coordination with the student’s home school district
Specially Designed Programming of PATHE
- Direct instruction of academics aligned to the general education curriculum including IEP goals with an emphasis on social skills development
- Implementation of the Discipline That Restores model with focus on repairing and maintaining positive relationships with peers and adults
- Collaboration with the Children’s Resource Center (CRC) to provide crisis support and student participation in a daily behavior management course as well as onsite individual and small group counseling when appropriate
- Teacher implemented behavior tracking, with input from students, designed to fit the unique needs of each student
- Continued collaboration with county districts to determine appropriate LRE for students based on their unique needs
- Integration of vocational studies and real world job placements, specifically with students 16 and older who participate in the PACE aspect of the program
- Includes cost of related services as a component of overall programming