About Panhandle Beginnings Day Treatment
Panhandle Beginnings Day Treatment (PbDTx)
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Panhandle Beginnings is a therapeutic treatment and educational setting that provides an individualized, educational and therapeutic environment. The program supports social-emotional awareness and promotes personal growth in a safe, healing environment to help youth reach their full potential. PbDTx is not it own school and serves each school district and student as an extended, off site, intensive ED classroom. When the student has made enough progress to be able to consistently maintain safe and appropriate behavior in the classroom/school setting, a transition meeting is scheduled so that the student can return to his/her home school.
Panhandle Beginnings serves youth 3rd through 8th grade who have been identified by the PbDTx multidisciplinary team to have intensive emotional and behavioral diagnoses that adversely impact the child's daily living skills and ability to participate in the general education curriculum and environment. The school district, family, student, and PbDTx coordinate with each other to provide the least restrictive academic setting possible. Ongoing monitoring of treatment appropriateness and youth needs are communicated at monthly team meetings.
For more information, contact Justin Ruzicka (jruzicka@esu13.org).