Therapeutic Day Treatment
Focusing on the Strengths of Young People
OLA’s school-based and afterschool TDT programs provide services for youth and adolescents from ages 5 to 21 with educational, behavioral, and emotional challenges who are at risk of out-of-school or out-of-home placement.
Through TDT...
…OLA seeks to address educational and social needs of youth by providing training, education, encouragement and support to empower youth to function at their optimal capacity, thus enabling them to become an integral member of the community.
Goal
To promote the development of positive social and family relationships and decrease aggressive and suppressing behaviors that damage family dynamics by providing intervention services tailored to meet the needs of the family unit

Call us: 804-789-1956
Services
OLA’s TDT services are individualized, and may include any of the following:
- Diagnostic Assessment
- Social Skills Training
- Self-Esteem Building
- Conflict Resolution
- Coping Skills Building
- Communication Building
- Behavior Self-Control
- Individualized & Group Therapy
- Weekly Family Counseling
- Life Skills Training
What our clients are saying....
Thank you for helping my son stay in his home-based school and pass to the next grade.”
TDT Parent
I am so very thankful that you were there to help me advocate for my daughter and identify interventions to help her be successful in school.
TDT Parent
Eligibility
Must meet 2 of the following:
- Difficulty establishing and maintaining normal interpersonal relationships and at-risk of hospitalization or out-ot-home placement.
- Exhibits inappropriate behavior, such as repeated interventions by the community, by mental health agencies, by social services and/or the judical system.
- Exhibits difficulty in cognitive ability. Unable to recognize personal danger OR significantly inappropriate social behavior.
Must meet 1 of the following:
- Requires year-round treatment in order to sustain behavioral and emotional gains.
- Behavioral and emotional problems are so severe they cannot be handled in self-contained or resource emotionally disturbed (ED) classroom during the school day without additional supports.
- Would otherwise be placed on homebound instruction because of severity of emotional and/or behavioral problems that interfere with learning.
- Has deficits in social skills, peer relations, interactions with authority; OR are hyperactive; have poor impulse control; OR are extremely depressed or marginally connected with reality.
- Child cannot function in preschool enrichment or early intervention program due to the severity of the child’s emotional and/or behavioral problems.