About Pressley Ridge
Pressley Ridge provides an array of services to troubled and developmentally challenged children while helping these children remain close to their families and communities. A nonprofit organization founded in 1832, Pressley Ridge offers innovative programs in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Internationally, our programs serve children and families in Hungary and Portugal. Our 1,000 employees help 1,900 children and their families daily.
Pressley Ridge offers four types of services:
- Foster care services, including treatment foster care, individual residential treatment, family-based shelter care, and respite care.
- Residential services, including a wilderness camp and small group facilities and campuses.
- Community-based services, including intensive case management, therapeutic social groups, family-based mental health and family preservation services.
- Education, including an Autism program, a day school, a school for the deaf and a wilderness program.
All Pressley Ridge services are guided by a common treatment philosophy called Re-Education. Re-ED focuses on the strengths of each child and family, and holds these beliefs: it is possible to teach competence; change is possible; and the development of trusting relationships with caring, committed adults is the most significant factor in turning around the lives of seriously troubled children.
Pressley Ridge staff and professional foster parents are well trained, supportively supervised and challenged daily to do the best they can for troubled and troubling children and their families.