Sheppard Pratt Health System celebrates the graduation of more than 80 students from 11 Sheppard Pratt school and school-based programs. Students graduated from the following schools: The Forbush School at Anne Arundel, The Forbush School at Anne Arundel - South, The Forbush School at Glyndon and Hannah More Center, The Forbush School at Hunt Valley, The Forbush School at Oakmont Upper School, The Forbush School at Prince George’s County, The Frost School, The Hannah More School at Severna Park High School, The Jefferson School and Residential Treatment Center, and The Jefferson School at Finan Center.
Chip Maust, Ed.D., chief of school and residential treatment programs at Sheppard Pratt Health System, remarked about the students’ accomplishment, “Graduating means that each student has made it to the end of an incredible journey. This June, they leave our schools as wiser and more compassionate young adults, ready to face new and different challenges. I am confident that these students are poised to do great things in this next chapter of their lives. Congratulations to the class of 2019!”
Through these school-based programs, Sheppard Pratt serves nearly 700 students with special needs, more than 50 percent of whom have been diagnosed with autism, from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C. It provides high quality education with a goal to help students leave their programs and live as independently as possible post-graduation.
The health system is the largest provider of nonpublic special education programming in Maryland, operating 15 Type I, Type II, and residential schools across the state, and serving students with autism spectrum disorders, behavioral disabilities, and intellectual disabilities. Sheppard Pratt also offers a breadth of free in-school programs that provide care, counseling, and guidance to the most vulnerable student populations.
About Sheppard Pratt
Sheppard Pratt is the largest private, nonprofit provider of mental health, substance use, developmental disability, special education, and social services in the country. A nationwide resource, Sheppard Pratt provides services across a comprehensive continuum of care, spanning both hospital- and community-based resources. Since its founding in 1853, Sheppard Pratt has been innovating the field through research, best practice implementation, and a focus on improving the quality of mental health care on a global level. Sheppard Pratt has been consistently recognized as a top national psychiatric hospital by U.S. News & World Report for more than 30 years.