FOCUS is a licensed Extended Day Treatment Program specializing in the treatment of children and adolescents (ages 5-18) who are on the Autism Spectrum, have anxiety disorders, experience processing and/or social learning difficulties, and who are otherwise, as we like to say, “creatively wired and socially challenged.”

FOCUS Alternative Learning Center (FOCUS) offers an exciting new Model of Careä to help families and their children living on the Autism Spectrum.  The “Model of Careä consists of three basic components:

Together, they provide a “wrap-around” model of services that addresses the many obstacles to growth and learning with which these special children and their families are confronted. 

What is Milieu Therapy?

Milieu or “life space” is the heart and soul of FOCUS.  This program is planned in such a way that it is constantly supporting, nourishing and reinforcing the child’s ability to learn life skills, such as problem solving and coping skills, while at the same time offering a safe place for these skills to be practiced and integrated into the child’s repertoire of strategies.  Through the use of daily routines, predictable rules and sensitive adult responses, children are able to grasp the potential for learning about their world and how they fit into it.

Please call our Program Clinical Coordinator, Jennifer Haggerty, MA, LPC at