Defining Success
Wright School's Assessment and Evaluation Team collects data on each child's progress in our education and treatment programs and the family's satisfaction with their Wright School experience when the child graduates from Wright School. Wright School delivers treatment using a model called Re-Education.
We define positive results and success when children leave our program with significant increases in academic skills, personal strengths, prosocial behaviors and significant decreases in problem behaviors.
For the past 3 years, Wright School has been collaborating with researchers at Duke University to assess the program's effectiveness. In this time of increasing concern about effective ways to treat the state's most difficult-to-treat children with mental health problems, this research was undertaken to examine the extent to which Wright School's approach - a model called Re-Education - was working.
After analyzing data on 98 children who completed the program at Wright School, researchers concluded that Wright School is an effective program for serving the state's most difficult-to-treat 6 to 12 year olds. Children show enormous gains during treatment and maintain much of this gain for at least 6 months after discharge. The program appears to benefit a wide range of youth and to be effective with youth regardless of race, sex, or psychiatric diagnosis. The program appears to have its greatest impact on youth who are younger (7-10) and who stay in the program longer (more than the 6 month average).
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