Our mission is to provide flexible, student-centered, team-based services with a mental health focus to students with severe emotional/behavioral disorders.
Community Based Program for Social Development (PSD) is a part of the special education umbrella of Focus Beyond services. Focus Beyond provides administrative support and guidance to all transition students and transition programs in the Saint Paul Public Schools.
The focus of this transition program is to provide hands-on, community-based learning experiences. School and support staff provide service in the community and on-site.
The staff-to-student ratio is approximately 10:1. Each student has a school case manager who is licensed in special education and a primary worker to aide and assist the student in carrying out individual goals and objectives. Staff work as a team to provide support on-site and in the community.
Community Based PSD serves students ages 16-21, whose needs are focused on the areas of transition, and whose IEP teams have determined this to be an appropriate placement. Community Based PSD utilizes both on- and off-site instruction, flexible programming and service hours, small group support and instruction, and career and technical guidance and placement to help learners develop the necessary skills to become functional independent adults in the community.
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