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Acacia Center

acacia center

Innovative, behavioral, educational and social services close to home

Services Offered

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Our Values

  • A- Acceptance: welcoming diversity and fostering a compassionate environment.
  • C- Community: knowing that we are stronger together than apart.
  • A- Academics: offering high-quality instruction with hands-on learning experiences.
  • C- Commitment: an unwavering dedication to those who need us the most.
  • I- Inclusivity: providing equal access to opportunities and resources for all.
  • A- Advocacy: promoting large-scale change through values-driven actions.
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Our Approach

  • Individualized attention ensuring clients are experiencing the world in meaningful ways.
  • Helping address all of your needs from language acquisition to vocational and daily living skills.
  • Delivering individual and group interventions services for children, adolescents, and young adults.
  • Center of excellence dedicated to bringing together community members and resources to maximize our outreach and opportunities for our area.

Resources

We use the most up to date and evidence-based practices for our curriculums.
PEAK Relational Training Curriculum:
  • is an evaluation and curriculum guide for teaching basic and advanced language skills from a contemporary behavior analytic approach
  • is a comprehensive approach to ABA Therapy, which embraces traditional verbal behavior accounts of basic language and incorporates contemporary strategies for promoting relational responding which are responsible for our ability to understand and use abstract language.
  • More information on PEAK can be found here: https://www.peak2aba.com/
AIM- A behavior analytic curriculum for social-emotional development in children:
  • blends together the concepts of Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Applied Behavior Analysis. Together the approach seeks to improve the lives of children with or without disabilities who struggle with social and emotional challenges
  • More information on AIM can be found here: https://www.acceptidentifymove.com/about-aim
PEERS- Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills:
  • is world-renowned for providing evidence-based social skills treatment to preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, depression, and other socio-emotional problems.
  • More information on PEERS can be found here: https://www.semel.ucla.edu/peers

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