Positive Nature's Rehabilitation Day Treatment Services offer a structured clinical 
program that teaches and develops children's skills and changes behavior. 
Evidence-based practices that utilize social, psychoeducational, behavioral and 
cognitive mental health interventions improve individual functioning and assist youth in 
reaching their maximum potential.  

Within a framework of Radical Positivity, PNI employs a range of treatment modalities 
to meet children where they are.Life skills groups are facilitated every day using the  
ARISE Foundation's acclaimed curriculum. All PNI staff are trained and certified in 
teaching the curriculum, which has age-appropriate lessons for children between the 
ages of five and twenty-one. With pre- and post-tests, issues are explored in thirty day 
units with topics including anger management, self esteem, violence prevention, health 
and hygiene, money management, fatherhood, and bullying, to name a few.  

All staff members are trained and certified in the advanced skills of Life Space Crisis 
Intervention. When a student is in crisis, presenting language and behavior that has 
escalated to a point that is disruptive, offensive, or unsafe, that student is engaged 
one-on-one in a very structured process of de-escalation, recognition, responsibility, 
and finally re-entry to the group environment.

Expressive therapies offer essential opportunities for children to express  their feelings, 
attitudes, and behaviors in non-verbal ways, often conveying that which is verbally 
inaccessible. Through art, music, drama, recreation, dance, and movement therapies, 
children:
  		





Every child has a treatment plan with time-specific, measurable goals that s/he plays 
a role in creating and setting.  
Every child has a case manager who coordinates services, 
including work with schools, court, mental health practitioners, and other agencies.