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:

· Develop self-confidence and self-esteem
· learn coping and adaptive skills
· improve listening skills
· practice conflict resolution
· understand choices and consequences
· Academic Enhancement: Tutoring