Provo Canyon School

Provo Canyon School (PCS) is a residential treatment center for teenagers with two campuses in Utah. The boys' campus is in Provo and the girls' campus is in Springville. An early adolescent program is attached to the girl's campus in Springville. The primary focus of the programs is residential treatment for emotionally and behaviorally troubled youth. The clients receive a wide range of interventions including, recreational, individual, group and art therapy. Other specialty interventions offered are Neurofeedback and substance abuse therapy.

Provo Canyon School is owned and operated as a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc., which bought the school from Charter Behavioral Health Systems in 2000.

As a private educational facility, Provo Canyon charges tuition fees, but also receives state and federal funding.Medical insurance may reimburse all costs.

Many students are placed in the facility by one or both of their parents, typically because mental health professionals and parents feel that residential placement is needed to address their children's behavioral health and educational problems. Others are placed there by probation officers or juvenile courts, or local school districts. In the latter case, tuition is covered by state and federal agencies in accordance with state special education laws and the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Act.

Provo Canyon School combines an academic program with individual, group, family and recreational therapy. Treatment teams for each student include staff, therapists, doctors, and teachers. According to the school's promotional materials, most of the faculty are certified in special education. Treatments may include anger management, sexual issues/trauma resolution, impulse control, stress reduction, assertiveness training, substance abuse groups and additional recreational therapy.

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