Cinnamon Hills specializes in treating youth who demonstrate: Emotional Disturbance, Specific Learning Disability, Speech or Language Impairment, and Other Health Impairments. Cinnamon Hills is accredited through Northwest Accreditation Commission to teach grades 6-12.
Cinnamon Hills educational focus is based on each students IEP and addresses three components:
A remedial curriculum designed to increase cognitive and academic functioning of students who are performing below grade level, bringing each student up to their appropriate grade level as quickly as possible;
Accredited academic courses that qualify for high school credit and issuance of a high school diploma
Cinnamon Hills mission is to establish an educational and therapeutic community which emphasizes the dignity and importance of each individual, impacts positively upon student attitudes towards learning, promotes value of individual accountability for choices and consequences, improves academic, social and life skills, influences students towards becoming persons of character, and promotes family reunification.
Supportive Services Offered
Cinnamon Hills offers a highly-structured environment with a proven record of success for students with special needs. For the highest level of safety possible, students remain under 100% eyeball supervision 24 hours a day. On-site therapeutic intervention and psychological services with a personal therapist are provided daily. The Program Psychiatrist holds regular meetings to address each student’s specific psychiatric and medication management needs specific to that student. Medical treatment is provided by the Program Pediatrician and his team of Registered Nurses ensuring the highest standard of care for each program resident.
Cinnamon Hills offers smaller class sizes where teachers can individually address each students unique academic needs and maintains a full time reading specialist to work one on one with students who are reading at below average grade level and a speech and language specialist is available for students who have impaired speech or communication skills. Students special needs are individually addressed to maximize their success academically and therapeutically.
The inherit value and importance of each individual under our care, along with their individualized special needs are emphasized at every level of program operation.
Entrance Criteria
Each student applying for admission to Cinnamon Hills is reviewed for appropriateness based on: 1. Age 2. Functioning level; cognitive reasoning must be high enough for youth to understand program rules and educational material. 3. At-risk behaviors 4. Delinquent history 5. Family involvement; are the parents or guardians supportive of treatment and willing to work alongside the program. 6. Primary diagnosis; moderate to severe psychiatric, emotional, and/or behavioral difficulties which is of long standing duration, has persisted over a year or longer, has not shown positive response to less intensive interventions, and is not manageable within the youths home or in a non-residential setting.
Discharge from Cinnamon Hills does not occur prematurely, but only when the student graduates from the Life Skills level of the program having demonstrated behavioral, therapeutic, and educational success.