Our mission is to inspire each student to respect and pursue educational and moral growth while developing the individual skills crucial to succeed in a complex, changing world.

The Oakley Difference is in the process of how we approach accomplishing this mission with each of our students.  We use a unique and successful therapeutic approach called The Oakley Social Model. 

By design, we provide a very structured program that accounts for each hour of each day with our students. Our management focus is to step back and provide fewer restrictions than the average residential treatment center, and allow our students choices. Hard choices. We provide a life simulator…..giving our students more autonomy to make choices, and the support to explore and adjust with each choice they make. They have the autonomy to make choices about the friends they spend time with here at Oakley, who they contact at home when they earn their phone calls…how to adhere to our dress code, or not….their commitment to sobriety……how they will accomplish their schoolwork…. Our role is to guide and redirect each student, influence and model appropriate behavior and choices in a way that are proactive and positive for each student’s path while with us at Oakley.

It is healthy and necessary for each of our students to question their choices, experiment with a good choice and feel the reinforcement and gratification for a good choice. And, the opportunity to make a poor choice and navigate through the lesson and begin to internalize their ownership of what they really need each day.

Our program components are well integrated and our staff observes, communicates, and reacts in quick, appropriate ways to identify the choices made by a student. Our families are involved in the process and coached in methods of supporting their son or daughter to learn from each lesson as they prepare for the challenges of young adulthood and their first year of college.

We feel it is necessary to allow our students to show us what they really need. We understand this model can be anxiety provoking for our parents and families. We address this by creating partnership with our parents; we create an atmosphere of real life choices, life preparation, and long term internalization and growth…within our students and our families.

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