Our Mission:

Child Wellness & School Readiness

The Center for Resilience is the only therapeutic day treatment program in Louisiana. We provide educational and intensive mental health supports in an innovative partnership with the Tulane University Medical School Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to ensure the emotional well-being and academic readiness of children with behavioral health needs in the Greater New Orleans region. Children with behavioral health and autism or related spectrum diagnoses receive instructional, medical, and therapeutic services at our day program site with the goal of building the skills necessary to successfully transition back to the traditional school setting. Our mission is to improve the emotional well-being and academic readiness of children by delivering high-quality, interdisciplinary care, and collaborating with partners to develop new programs that meet the needs of our region’s children and families.

 
 
 
 
 
“We let the kids take a little bit of the lead...we also learn to celebrate incremental victories and to tolerate some background noise - sometimes a lot of background noise - in a way that it wouldn’t normally be in a [traditional] school setting.”
— Bill Murphy, Board Chair - Christian Science Monitor
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Our Programs

CfR provides a caring, non-punitive, therapeutic milieu with positive behavioral supports, trauma-informed approaches, evidence-based mental health practices, small-group classroom instruction, and therapeutic recreation activities. We also offer itinerant home-bound instruction and counseling services, and school-based consultations on request.

Our trauma-informed programming model combines equal parts academic programming, therapeutic & clinical services, and medical services.

Relationships-Based
Day treatment

  • Relationships-based, trauma-informed therapeutic day treatment program for children in grades K-12 with significant emotional health and trauma-related needs

  • Interdisciplinary approach offering academic instruction, counseling, medication management, and enrichment activities

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“A lot of the children that I work with have voiced pretty much from the beginning that they are bad kids and that that’s why they’re here...When they do something that is disruptive or aggressive, just reiterating ‘I’m still here, I still think you’re a good kid, there’s really nothing you can do to change my mind about that, but we’re gonna work on some of the things you struggle with.’ And try to differentiate the child from the behavior.”
— Dr. Laura Marques, Clinical Director - WWNO