Odyssey House Academy for Adolescents

The Odyssey House Academy is now open!!! 

Funded by a contract with the Office for Addictive Disorders, this program will service 50 adolescents, both male and female, to provide intensive substance abuse counseling, relapse prevention, psychiatric services and educational services. Referrals can be made by parents, probation officers, teachers, physicians, and courts.

Over the course of their treatment at the Academy, residents participate in daily individual, family and/or group therapies and educational instruction.  The therapeutic community model is used to provide residents with the needed skills to make choices to live a drug free life. 

Parental involvement is required to allow for weekly family therapy sessions and prepare the resident and his/her family for the resident’s discharge back into the family and community.   

Educational services are provided year round. The educational staff communicates with the adolescents’ teachers so that residents can be instructed on materials currently being taught at their grade level. Each resident is tested academically at admission and discharge to provide the parents and community school with the child’s academic progression while at Odyssey House Academy. Academic instruction includes the use of the Academy’s computer lab and GED instruction is given, as needed.

The admission criteria are as follows:

• Must be between the ages of 12 – 17 years of age
• Must have a drug/alcohol addiction
• Must be medically cleared  and accepted by OHL medical staff

The staff is made up of a psychiatrist, licensed clinical therapists, certified teachers, nursing staff and recovery support staff.

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Continuing its long-standing policy of actively supporting equality of opportunity for all persons, Odyssey House Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, color, national or ethnic origin, or age, nor does it discriminate against qualified handicapped persons, in the administration of its admission, employment and educational policies, and other school-administered programs. Rather, Odyssey House Academy affirms that it admits students and selects employees regardless of their race, religion, sex, color, handicap, age, national or ethnic origin and thereafter accords them all the rights and privileges generally made available to students or employees at the school.