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Keystone Area Education Agency provides support services for families who provide home-based schooling for their children including: assessments and evaluations, access to instructional materials and curriculums, and consultation regarding the educational needs of the children.
Academy program for high school dropouts, GED and credit recovery ages 15.5-18. Classes start in January and July and run for seventeen months. The first five months are spent in residency at the campus in Rantoul, IL. In a structured quasi-military environment, youth receive GED instruction or credit recovery, self-discipline, life coping skills, computer skills, and career counseling, and they perform community service projects. Post-graduation, cadets return to the community to continue education in a post secondary institution or vocational school, or obtain employment, with the guidance of a mentor from their community. Youth may be eligible to receive a monetary allowance to assist in education or employment costs.

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Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Alternative Education
Mental health services includes the following:

Outreach Program offers community-based and in-home counseling services that include individual and family skill development and crisis intervention at school, home or in the community. Funding for the program is available through Title XIX.

Substance Abuse Services is an outpatient chemical dependency treatment program that serves youth who are using or abusing chemical substances.

Court Based Intervention Program and Early Services Project are diversion programs for first or second time offenders designed as a consequence and a deterrent to future system involvement.

Community Sanctions Program call for information on the Pace Sanctions and Pace Violators programs.

Juvenile Court School Program is a collaborative project between Juvenile Court, the Des Moines Public Schools, and PACE. Juvenile Court School Liaisons are housed in several middle schools and high schools to provide on-site supervision and interventions to youth under the jurisdiction of the court system or youth who are considered at-risk for juvenile court involvement.

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Alternative Education
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling

Truant Alternative Optional Education Program: Designed for students who are at risk of school failure due to being truant, chronic truants, dropouts or potential dropouts with attendance.


Regional Safe Schools Program (RSSP): Designed for students who have multiple long-term suspensions, or students who are eligible for expulsion or in lieu of expulsion.

A focus program partnership between Lincoln Public Schools and The Bay, taking a unique approach to serving high school juniors and seniors. Provides creative, entrepreneurial-minded students with the tools, access, and resources to be successful creators.

Offers a wide range of programming to meet the needs of youth and adolescents who struggle with behavioral or mental health concerns. Programs are focused on the maximum development and the best outcome of each individual.

No matter what level of care provided, treatment is a personalized experience that is designed to meet the specific strengths, needs, and treatment goals of each individual. Families can choose from a list of services, including comprehensive mental health assessments; outpatient therapy (individual, group, family); psychiatric services including medication management, adolescent intensive outpatient therapy groups; and more.

Programs help children develop coping strategies, self-confidence, and help regulate emotions while they take control of their lives.

Autism services are also available.

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Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Alternative Education
Parent Counseling
Behavioral Learning Therapy
Child Guidance
Alternative education for grades 9-12.
Program for students struggling with emotional, learning, and behavioral issues.

Alternative education for students expelled, suspended, or struggling at their regular school. Program options:

- Regional Safe School Program (RSSP): for regular education students who have been disruptive in the education program.

- Options: Safe and secure classroom for students who suffer from anxiety and other non-disciplinary attendance issues.

- FLEX: Late-day program (3:30 pm-8 pm) for at-risk students and those with attendance struggles.

Provides a holistic education program for students in an alternative setting. Integrated curriculum includes partnerships with the families, the home school, social service agencies, and educational communities to help students find pathways to academic, occupational, and personal success.

Program components include but not limited to behavior modification, educational tutoring, community service activities, tours, employment preparation and social skill development.

Transportation is provided to and from program.

Offers to serve "at risk" students and their families by providing an opportunity for education and guidance through various school-based and community-based programs. Students have the opportunity to earn their diplomas in a timely manner by utilizing an Individualized Educational Plan.

Instruction is available for special-education pupils whose condition, as certified by the director of special education, prevents school attendance. These pupils are provided instruction and appropriate special education services through home or hospital programs.

Juvenile Detention Center Coordination facilitates communication with students' prior educational programs and future placements to identify the educational needs of students at the Scott County Juvenile Detention Center, where Mississippi Bend AEA provides the educational program.
Offers alternative High School education services. The alternative education program serves students grades 9-12 who are in need of a non-traditional high school setting and/or in need of a more flexible schedule. Learning is provided predominately through online courses with instructors on site to provide assistance.
Keystone Area Education Agency provides support services for families who provide home-based schooling for their children including: assessments and evaluations, access to instructional materials and curriculums, and consultation regarding the educational needs of the children.
Keystone Area Education Agency provides support services for families who provide home-based schooling for their children including: assessments and evaluations, access to instructional materials and curriculums, and consultation regarding the educational needs of the children.

Alternative learning setting for students who need more intensive academic/social/emotional intervention or have behavioral issues.

Provides alternative education for children with diverse learning needs.
Keystone Area Education Agency provides support services for families who provide home-based schooling for their children including: assessments and evaluations, access to instructional materials and curriculums, and consultation regarding the educational needs of the children.
Keystone Area Education Agency provides support services for families who provide home-based schooling for their children including: assessments and evaluations, access to instructional materials and curriculums, and consultation regarding the educational needs of the children.

Academic center for students with behavior disorders at the primary and secondary level, grades 1 - 12.

Academic and therapeutic programming for special education students with major mental health diagnoses. Students school utilizes trauma-informed care and pro-active solution approaches.
Offers alternative education and evening courses.
Educates students with behavioral/emotional conditions who have been unable to maintain traditional school placement. Provides a complete academic curriculum.

Services for parents and children who attend the school include behavior management techniques for children 5-21 years of age, appropriate social and classroom behavior, and parent behavior management skills.

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Alternative Education
Behavioral Learning Therapy
Day treatment program offers treatment based on each student's individualized educational plan (IEP). Special education services, case management, and interventions are offered to area youth who are at risk of disrupting from their homes of origin and/or being placed in a residential setting.