Perseus House, Inc.

Our goals are to effectively intervene in the lives of seriously troubled adolescents, to assist them in avoiding future contact with the juvenile justice and child welfare systems and to help them toward successful adulthood.

But real success comes in keeping school-aged youth out of the juvenile justice and child welfare systems altogether.

That’s why we also work locally with school and community partners to provide Erie’s youth with:

Delinquency Prevention – Engaging youth and families referred to us by schools to catch and address problems that might lead to chronic aggression.

Alternative Education – Helping regular and special education students who struggle with traditional learning environments stay on course academically and strengthen themselves emotionally.

Residential Alternatives – Keeping eligible court-ordered youth in their own homes and schools. We use active juvenile probation monitoring, along with social and emotional skills building.

Our treatment programs work to strengthen personal ethics, responsibility, and maturity. Growing healthy relationships, fulfilling legal obligations, and preparing for employment are also emphasized.

We do all of this through evidence-based practices that include:

Aggression Replacement Training (ART) – focused on anger management, social skills building, and moral reasoning; and

Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) – a six-stage relationship-building strategy to turn times of crisis into learning opportunities and long-term behavioral change.

ALL of our activity is guided by the Sanctuary® Model seven key commitments:

Non-Violence Emotional Intelligence Social Learning Open Communication Democracy Social Responsibility Growth and Change

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