On-Campus Day Treatment

Ozanam offers a therapeutic day treatment program for adolescent boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 19 at its main campus in south Kansas City, Missouri. The program serves children with emotional, behavioral and educational problems that are severe enough to keep them from functioning well in their homes, communities and schools but whose problems may not be severe enough to require residential treatment. Our primary goal is to improve each child's functioning to the point that they can return to their own school and be successful.

The main components of the therapeutic day treatment program are therapy and special education at Ozanam School. Each student has an individualized treatment and education plan designed to meet his or her emotional, behavioral and academic needs. Working with the family, Ozanam's teachers and therapists strive to develop a plan that will foster each child's success in the classroom and beyond.

Children in the Day Treatment Program attend Ozanam's fully accredited school and are integrated with some residential students. The curriculum covers standard subject areas like English, math, science and social studies, as well as physical education. Students also have the opportunity to participate in a number of elective courses, such as creative arts, computers, art, industrial arts & horticulture.

Satellite Day Treatment Programs

In an effort to help more children while keeping them in their own families and communities, Ozanam has developed a satellite day treatment program with the Belton school district in Missouri. The Belton/Ozanam Southland Cooperative (BOSCO) is open to boys and girls in kindergarten through 12th grade. Like the children at Ozanam's main campus program, each child has an individualized education and therapy plan.

Accredited Programs

Most of Ozanam's programs are accredited by the Council on Accreditation. The regular and special education programs are accredited by the North Central Association and are also certified by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Teachers are appropriately certified in their instruction areas.