Enhanced Classroom
Enhanced Classroom provides mental health services in the context of a regular school day. The students spend a class period or a partial day in the enhanced classroom and the balance of their day in mainstreamed classrooms.

Day Treatment
Day Treatment services provide mental health services during an extended school day to support the treatment needs of children who would otherwise be limited in their ability to participate in a school environment.

Non Public School
Non Public School is a certified educational resource for children whose behavioral problems prohibit their inclusion in traditional or special educational classrooms.

Santa Clara County
EMQ FamiliesFirst provides therapeutic services at school sites throughout Santa Clara County in partnership with four school districts and the County Office of Education. EMQ FamiliesFirst staff offers mental health support for children whose serious emotional disorders block them from learning in a less restrictive classroom setting. The school provides academic curriculum, special education support, and classroom space.

Students are referred for School-based Day Treatment Services by their teacher or parent through the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) process.

How do I get more information?
Call EMQ FamiliesFirst Client Services at (408) 379-3796.

Yolo County
New expanded capacity in Residential Treatment and Non-Public School, including girls.

EMQ FamiliesFirst’s Non-Public School, located in Davis, has the capacity to serve up to 72 students aged six through fifteen. Student eligibility for special education is based on the qualifying disability of emotional disturbance (ED), specific learning disability (SLD) or other health impaired (OHI). Eligible children present with a range of emotional and behavioral difficulties. 

The Non-Public School combines, rather than separates, elements of educational and therapeutic treatment. Students are appropriately placed based on their chronological age, level of educational function and behavioral concerns. Academic, functional, and social lessons are taught by a teacher and two classroom counselors in each of our eight, eight-to-nine student classrooms. This ideal staffing ratio lets us identify and address the individual needs of each child to work in various groupings and use a variety of success-oriented teaching methodologies.

The Non-Public School Program has received full certification from the California Department of Education and is structured to meet the student’s needs for security, consistency, predictability and academic growth. Students learn through a multi-disciplinary approach, emphasizing individualized and small group instruction. Our program offers the highest quality educational and treatment services to emotionally disturbed students in a manner that is respectful, caring, and effective. We are a year-round school serving our residential students.

Our goal is for each student to progress academically, behaviorally, and emotionally to the point where the student may graduate to an appropriate, less restrictive, public school in the community. In fact, as our students continue their academic and social growth, the Davis Joint Unified School District partners with us to "mainstream" our students for entry into, or a return to, the public educational system.

• Individualized Educational Assessment and Treatment Planning

• Specially Designed Curriculum & Therapeutic Interventions

• Milieu and Behavior Therapy

• Designated Instructional Services as needed

How do I get more information?
Contact:
Laura Baillie, NPS Principal
(530) 747-3400

2010-11 School Accountability Report Card