When the Tyrone School District entered into a contract with Pyramid Healthcare, one goal was to get help for troubled students with emotional and behavioral issues. The primary goal is to help the students modify their behavior so they can return to the district.
\n\u201cWe hope to see continued success one year from now,\u201d said Tyrone Assistant Superintendent Joann Lang. \u201cI think the parental support has been fantastic. When you tell the parents that we have help for their children right here, they will work well with you. We have good communication with Pyramid and that is helping to make it successful.\u201d
\nComing back into the traditional school system will take a lot of adjustments. There will have to be adjustments made by the students and the school system to help them adapt in returning to the traditional setting.
\n\u201cThere are several options for the students to return to school,\u201d said Tyrone Special Education Director Frances Parker. \u201cIt could be a partial day here at the school and partial day at Greentree. We will transition carefully with the parents and the staff at Greentree. We will do whatever will work for that individual child so they can be successful when they return.\u201d
\nLeaving Greentree Village is the goal set by the teachers and counselors for the students.
\n\u201cWe don\u2019t just let them leave the program,\u201d said Greentree Village Director Betty Sleighton. \u201cWe do follow ups. At three months, six months, a year, we check to see if they are attending school. We see if any agencies are involved and we mark down who we talk to as we get the information. We set up after care in their home area. If it is out-patient counseling, intensive out-patient counseling. We provide whatever is necessary. If they need psychatrict services, we set that up. Everything has to be in place before a child leaves here.\u201d
\nEverything is put into place for a child to go through the program at Greentree Village and be successful when they complete it.
\n\u201cWe have a kid right now who is getting ready for discharge and he is starting to act out,\u201d said Sleighton. \u201cPart of it is he is scared to death to leave. We sat him dowwn and talked to him. He is really scared because he has it nice here.\u201d
\nBefore being released, the students earn passes to return home for weekends.
\n\u201cThe student I am talking about has been earning passes for the past couple months,\u201d said Sleighton. \u201cThe student and family has been able to work some things out at home and in family counseling. We implement these programs before the child can be released.\u201d
\nMany of the students in the various Pyramid programs are referred by Children and Youth Services agencies. Before release, the student must be recommended for release by CYS and the judge.
\n\u201cIn most cases the judges act on our recommendations,\u201d said Sleighton. \u201cIf we truly believe that a child isn\u2019t ready to go home and succeed, the judge normally backs us.\u201d
\nThe first three months at Greentree Village haven\u2019t been the most peaceful in the world, but in a year, things could be completely different.
\n\u201cWe hope that after a year there will be more harmony and peace,\u201d said Tyrone Superintendent of Schools Dr. William Miller. \u201cSome of the neighbors have some misgivings and after a year evolves, we hope that they feel better about what is going on and we will all be good neighbors. Hopefully the Pyramid program will prove itself and everyone looks at this differently a year from now in what it has produced in terms of the kids.\u201d
\nEditor\u2019s Note: After observing three months of debate on the Greentree Village program, I am left with some thoughts. I have heard both sides say that we are for making things better for the kids. The time to debate who was right and who was wrong is over. The program is there and it is helping the kids. Let\u2019s look at it one year from now and see where things are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When the Tyrone School District entered into a contract with Pyramid Healthcare, one goal was to get help for troubled students with emotional and behavioral issues. The primary goal is to help the students modify their behavior so they can return to the district. \u201cWe hope to see continued success one year from now,\u201d said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}