Wellspring Foundation

Description

About Us
Wellspring is a multiservice mental health agency and educational center licensed by the State of Connecticut and accredited by JCAHO Since its beginning in 1977 Wellspring has progressively expanded its services to provide residential treatment in a private school environment for children ages 613 amp adolescent girls on the main campus residential treatment for adults on their own private campus extensive outpatient services at two locations and therapeutic special education school services for residential and day students on the main campus at the Arch Bridge School

Mission
Wellspring is a psychotherapeutic and educational center dedicated to healing through relational approaches to self others creation and Spirit which touch and bring forth the wellspring of personal being unique to each individual Wellspring assists individuals and families in working through the emotional psychological and educational issues that prevent them from establishing and maintaining healthy and meaningful lives

Values
Wellspring develops and promotes psychotherapeutic and educational services and approaches that effectively treat in a comprehensive and personalized way individuals and families suffering from severe emotional relational and behavioral problems

Wellspring works in relationship to families schools and care givers to build restore or enhance the ability of clients students and their families to live productive and rewarding lives in their own homes schools and communities

Through teaching training and the demonstrated effectiveness of our models we extend our treatment approaches methods of parenting and the values that underlie them to our regional communities to the professional community at large and to public service agencies in order to enhance their capacity for treatment and prevention

Wellsprings approach in each of our programs will be inspired by and proceed from a core value that is understood committed to and mediated by our staff This cornerstone of our relational approach to treatment and education is an awareness that inherent in each individual is a wellspring of personal being that is unique unrepeatable in essence and imbued with spirit Respect for the sacredness and dignity of each individual client or staff proceeds from this belief In support of this foundational value each program and service will be designed in size scope and the holistic nature of its approach to support this personal heart of Wellspring as the core of what we do

History

History
Wellspring is a multiservice mental health agency and educational center licensed by the State of Connecticut and accredited by JCAHO Since its beginning in 1977 Wellspring has progressively expanded its services to provide residential treatment in a private school environment for children ages 613 amp adolescent girls on the main campus residential treatment for adults on their own private campus extensive outpatient services at two locations and therapeutic special education school services for residential and day students on the main campus at the Arch Bridge School

Wellsprings excellent reputation for comprehensive treatment and quality care has accompanied its growth Wellsprings approach in all of its programs is founded on a belief in the uniqueness and dignity of the individual We strive always to see know and reach the essential person in our care What we seek in therapy and education is not external social adjustment alone but to help the person access what is inherent in personality and giftedness he wellspring of ones own being that is ultimately the basis for a stable and creative individual life Diagnoses are understood as problems to solve rather than conditions of existence to be labeled Symptoms are addressed as patterns of psychological and emotional response initially developed as ways to cope with pain and unmet needs While symptoms can meet needs and protect the person from hurt they are also unhealthy solutions that work with a terrible cost Our dual task is to confront symptoms and to help the individual and family to develop healthy alternatives Individuals and families are willing to make these changes only when they feel safe enough to be emotionally vulnerable and to risk new ways of relationship to self and others

The physical environment of Wellspring with its natural beauty and homelike atmosphere supports Wellsprings small intimate programs while engaging its clients in professionally sophisticated multidimensional treatment Each person and family is unique and different and no single approach works the same for everyone Therefore we approach the person and the problem in as comprehensive and intensive a way as possible using verbal nonverbal cognitive expressive and experiential means Because therapy is not life but learning how to approach life with consciousness and responsibility we strive to provide a therapeutic milieu of experiential programs and relationships that give depth and immediacy to the formal therapies Our commitment in each and all of our programs is to meet each individual person and family in our care with honesty intelligence respect and love in a mutual endeavor