Walker Inc

The day treatment and education program is a chapter 766-approved academic day program for children with histories of high-risk behaviors, chronic mental illness, language disorders, learning disabilities, and/or high-functioning autism spectrum disorders.

Walker community counseling provides support to make positive life changes in a safe and comfortable environment. Practitioners utilize an ecological approach that addresses individual, family, enviornmental and community factors. Walker community counseling includes clinical social workers, mental health counselors, master level clincical interns, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurse prescribers. Walker community counseling practitioners are trained in the application of a variety of evidence-based practices to diagnose and treat behavior challenges, emotional issues, trauma, and other comple mental health needs.

Walker beacon school is a fully accredited, co-educational alternative middle and high school program that provides academic and specialized programs in a therapeutic environment for students ages 12 to 22 from the greater boston area.

Walker solutions provides consultation, direct staff support, home-based services, professional development, and student and program evaluation services to more than 55 school systems and several educational collaboratives in the greater boston and worcester areas.

The ain group home is an intensive group home (1:3), coeducational program for children ages 5 to 13 and thier families. As an intensive group home, the ain group home provides a safe, structured, home-like living enviornment. While on-site, children receive comprehensive treatment that includes clinical services, health services, psychiatric consultation, occupational therapy, and case management. Outside of the residence, children participate fully in the community by attending community based schools, camps, extracurricular activities, and social and recreational events.

The acute residential program is a hospital-diversion program specifically designed to provide emergency short-term stabilization support to children between the ages of 3 and 10 who are actively in severe emotional and behavioral crisis.

The therapeutic after-school program (tasp) was created to provide psychoeducational and structured recreational group activities, outside of the classroom, tailored to the need of the students enrolled. Located at the walker beacon school, tasp serves up to 8 youth between the ages of 6 and 13 offering supports such as individualized action plans, group therapy, case management, and coordination, educational support and assistance, family engagement, and discharge and transition planning to prepare student for inclusion in a less structured setting.