Teaching Family Model

Garfield Park Academy has adapted the evidence-based Teaching-Family Model to a school-based setting. The Model has been selected by the American Psychological Association as a "Model Program in Service Delivery in Child and Family Mental Health."

This program is a positively based cognitive behavioral program - not a band-aid on behavior - which focuses on helping students to develop appropriate social skills to replace poor ones developed over time.

In the group home setting the model has been touted by the Surgeon General as one of only two "therapeutic group homes" that are "conducive to learning social and psychological skills."

Garfield Park Academy is the first school-based program to be certified by the international Teaching Family Association in use of the model.

The Garfield Park Academy is also certified as a Teaching Family Association Sponsor site and can sponsor schools and residential sites in implementation of the Teaching-Family Model.