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Phoenix Academy at Southern Peaks special needs school in Cañon City, CO
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Phoenix Academy at Southern Peaks

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Cañon City, COAges 10-18

Phoenix Academy is the accredited school program of Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center, a licensed Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) with a Therapeutic Designation from the State of Colorado. The school serves adolescents ages 10 to 18, in grades 5 through 12, who have significant emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric needs. Education is delivered within an interdisciplinary, client-centered model that brings together the adolescent, family, nursing, therapy, education, psychiatry, and the placing school district. Many students have histories of complex trauma, and treatment includes evidence-based approaches such as TF-CBT, DBT, EMDR, equine-assisted therapy, and co-occurring substance use care. Southern Peaks offers both sub-acute and acute levels of psychiatric care and partners with families, school districts, and placing agencies across Colorado to help each young person stabilize and successfully return to a less restrictive setting.

  • CDE-approved facility school (psychiatric residential / day treatment)
  • emotional_behavioral
  • serious_emotional_disorder
  • trauma
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