Hillcrest Family Services

January 10, 2010 — Hillcrest Family Services

 

Nathan is a ten-year old from Jackson County in northeast Iowa who attends the Hillcrest School in Dubuque. He is highly oppositional and suffers from chronic depression so severe that he has been evaluated three times by the psychiatric unit at the University of Iowa Hospital. Before he began participating in the Hillcrest Education Program, he seldom attended school at all or would spend all of his class time in a deep, depression-induced sleep. While here he has attended school every day, and the length of his on-task behavior in relation to the sleeping episodes has steadily increased. He is doing very well in school.

 

Nathan’s mother wrote, “You at Hillcrest are truly advocates of the children in your school. Your time, knowledge, love and patience as well as trust are very deeply and sincerely appreciated. Many, many thanks to each and every one of you.” Nathan added, “Thank you for building our classroom that we are in now. It helps us come to school during the day and still be able to go home to our families at night. If we didn’t have this school we wouldn’t be able to live with our families. This way we can still do things with them when we get home.”

 

Hillcrest Family Services are supported in part through the apportionments of the Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church. For more information about Hillcrest visit their Web site: www.hillcrest-fs.org.