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Student services outlines plans for therapeutic programming, middle/high school supports
Summary
Catherine Plourde, director of student services, updated the board on efforts to expand therapeutic supports inside district schools, including a middle-school program, a district BCBA, a behavioral health position and planned expansion of alternative pathways at the high school.
Catherine Plourde, director of student services, told the board on June 4 that the district is developing options to meet students’ social‑emotional and therapeutic needs without immediate creation of a separate offsite facility.
Plourde said the district evaluated what a stand‑alone therapeutic program would require but noted a principal constraint: available space. “We do not have space to look at growing a program that would be in a different setting,” she said, describing the practical limits on creating a separate campus program without relocating…
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