McAuley Nazareth Inc. (Nazareth) is a therapeutic group home and residential and day special education facility located in central Massachusetts. Our programs provide therapeutic, clinical, educational, and milieu services to youth with complex needs. Nazareth’s team works in tandem with our youth and their families to achieve our mutual goals of stabilizing their behavior and preparing them for a less restrictive environment relative to their individual treatment plan. We support those in our care with a full range of services individually tailored to give our youth what they need to become productive people. Services include small group living, special education, individual, group, and family therapy, sensory integration supports, social services to family, outpatient medical services, outpatient dental services, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and development of pre-vocational skills and recreational activities on grounds and in the community. Our goal for all youth is to help them develop into the best version of themselves.
Through the support of a positive trauma-informed strength-based approach, we create and facilitate an environment where youth can learn to trust again and find hope for their future. Whatever the next step on their journey is, be it progress to a less restrictive educational setting, reunification with their own families, or to begin living with adoptive families, Nazareth strives to help our youth successfully transition to the next chapter in their success story.
The goals for all of our youth help to ensure that they are able to develop into the best version of themselves. Typical goals include:
- Developing skills needed for family living
- Establishing meaningful, trusting relationships
- Developing effective social skills and increasing appropriate interactions with peers
- Decreasing the need for physical management
- Increasing independence in daily living skills
- Reducing the need for psychiatric medications
- Developing coping skills and strategies
- Achieving greater academic success in a smaller structured classroom
- Therapy to help explore and process traumatic experiences
- Increasing self-awareness, reducing anxiety, and developing an ability to improve emotional regularity
McAuley Nazareth, Inc. is committed to providing a non-discriminatory work and school environment, free of all forms of harassment, protection from retaliation, and to create and maintain an atmosphere of mutual respect. In doing so, it provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants as well as the youth/students we serve. Nazareth has established an effective process for the resolution of allegations of harassment or discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or homelessness in the provision of or access to services, employment, and activities.