Crawford First Education

Crawford First Education provides specialized schools and programs to facilitate academic and social growth for students grades K-12. Throughout all of our programs we emphasize awareness and appreciation of many cultures and ways of life. Our goal is to affirm the strengths of cultural diversity and nurture the self-esteem and ethnic pride of all students. Students learn to recognize and value their own culture, as well as appreciate the cultural differences of others. A variety of cultural awareness activities expose students to the diversity and commonality of people.

Crawford Day School

Operating under the Crawford First Education (CFE) umbrella, Crawford Day School creates effective, comprehensive, fiscally responsible alternative education programs that address and improve the problems of special needs students. We provide a specialized accredited school, using Virginia-licensed special education teachers and innovative individualized curriculums, to facilitate academic and social growth for students in grades K-12. The focus of Crawford Day School is on academic progress and behavioral controls to allow the student to integrate back into the public school setting.

Our curriculum includes values clarification, coping skills, conflict resolution, building self-esteem, effective communication skills and anger management. We present numerous opportunities for students to learn, practice and internalize value characteristics that are essential for developing moral character: responsibility, respect, fairness, citizenship, trust and compassion.

Crawford Day School, Portsmouth, Virginia

Crawford Day School provides a supportive and organized environment essential to the education of students who have not been successfully educated in the public school setting. Crawford Day School is an approved private day school offering intensive and therapeutic placement for special education students in grades K-12.

Day Treatment Services

Day Treatment Services combine intensive therapeutic interventions with individualized educational programming to serve students with mental, behavioral or emotional issues that result in significant functional impairments in the school and community. Under a psychiatrist's and licensed clinician's supervision, the program offers individual, group and family counseling, along with behavior management strategies. Therapeutic activities include specialized academic instruction, daily counselor-facilitated, structured therapeutic activities and ongoing support and guidance towards meeting Individualized Service Plan behavioral goals. Individual counseling addressing trauma or difficult emotional experiences that often precipitate negative behaviors is offered as well as family counseling to help strengthen communication, interaction and coping skills. Day Treatment Services are Medicaid eligible. Services offered in Portsmouth, Virginia.

WINNERS Camp, Portsmouth, Virginia

This a day treatment program offered every summer and specifically designed to facilitate recreational and social learning experiences for children ages 5 to 21. Through a variety of interactive and enriching activities, campers gain a positive sense of self as they learn to make diverse choices.

Transition Advocate Services