CREST Collaborative
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About CREST Collaborative
EPIC, Essex Lower Academy and Essex Upper Academy address different needs within CREST Collaborative. EPIC serves students with intensive needs, multiple disabilities and medical complexity. The Essex academies focus on social and emotional needs. We offer these programs through our Andover campus and partnerships with public school districts when students need support beyond the options in their home schools.
Lifeways and Lifeworks work with students with autism and intellectual disabilities. Merrimack Academy supports students whose emotional, behavioral, academic or complex risk factors affect their education. Each program has its own audience and approach, and we match the educational setting to the students it serves.
Our district partnerships reach across Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. We provide services in students' home schools as well as placements at our campus, bringing together support for learning, behavioral, physical and medical needs. Programs extend from preschool into adulthood.
For adults age 22 and older, Visions provides community based day services and supported group employment through contracts with the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services. That adult program continues our work beyond school-age placements.
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- language-based learning disabilities
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