AchieveKids, Inc. Palo Alto

About AchieveKids, Inc. Palo Alto

Achievekids is a non-profit organization that helps youth with complex disabilities find their full potential through an array of integrated mental health and special education services. Achievekids has been serving Santa Clara and San Mateo counties for more than 50 years by providing programs and services for children and youth who have difficult emotional and developmental disorders that cannot be properly addressed in a traditional academic setting. To meet this need, intensive individualized programs have been developed specifically to address the issues presented by a variety of diagnoses, such as autism, psychotic disorders, mental retardation, and conduct, mood and attention deficit disorders. Our programs are designed for high-need children, adolescents, and young adults, ages 6-22. We work with these young people on a focused one-to-one basis with trained staff and specially designed facilities. Our goal is to help them become more self-reliant. This goal is accomplished through a working partnership with the child, the family, and the community. We have two schools campuses, one in San Jose and one in Palo Alto. Experienced, credentialed and licensed special education and mental health professionals, along with trained, experienced paraprofessional counselors, provide all the instruction at Achievekids.