Serenity Education and Day Treatment Center
Serenity Education and Day Treatment Center is a Colorado Facility School that is approved by the Colorado Department of Education. Serenity Education and Day Treatment Center is also licensed by the Colorado Department of Human Services. Serenity Education and Day Treatment Center began in 2001 with seven students and the program has grown immensely over the past 22 years.
Serenity Education and Day Treatment Center serves an average of 70-75 students with multiple disabilities. Serenity Education and Day Treatment center celebrates the unique learning styles and need for functional educational curricula for each student.
Serenity Education and Day Treatment Center employs professionals who are licensed special education teachers, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, school social workers, and an amazing team of special education paraprofessionals.
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ESSER III Use of Funds Plan
Serenity Education serves students with multiple disabilities whom were directly impacted by the lost instructional time during the pandemic. As a result, Serenity Education has decided to utilize the LEA’s ESSER III funds to directly address the learning loss that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic. The LEA employed an additional BCBA through use of the funding to address behaviors in the school setting as well as to support families with resources to utilize in their homes. Additionally, the LEA's ESSER III funding will directly address the loss of learning that resulted from the pandemic by licensing six additional special educators employed currently as paraprofessionals in our educational program. In order to license paraprofessionals holding Bachelor's degrees, Serenity Education will utilize funding for Praxis and relative study materials for educators during the licensure process. Additionally, Serenity Education will utilize funding to enroll six future special educators in the ASPIRE to teach program beginning in August 2024. These candidates will be licensed Special Education Generalists through the Colorado Department of Education in August of 2024. The addition of six licensed special educators to our program directly addresses the loss of instructional time that Serenity Education students experienced due to the pandemic and its' lasting effects on our educational program. Licensing these six special educators will surpass the $16,800 requirement of ESSER III funding to be spent on academic impact of lost instructional time due to the pandemic. Serenity Education will increase its' quantity of licensed special education generalists on-site by 75% utilizing the ESSER III funding.
View Serenity Education's Return to In-Person Learning Plan Here.
Serenity Education and Day Treatment center is excited to accept student referrals! We look forward to hearing from you!
Please send referrals to our Special Education Director and Education Coordinator at: Caseyd@smithagencyinc.org and Christyg@smithagencyinc.org
