The Forgotten Path: Facility Partner Perceptions on Youth Transitions from a Residential Treatment Facility School to Neighborhood Schools
JAASEP 21(2) (2026) 81-92
Abstract
Youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) may be negatively impacted by their behavioral excesses and deficits across academic, behavioral, and transition domains requiring more intensive supports as part of their education resulting in some of these youth receiving their education a residential treatment facility (RTF). Once they complete their treatment, they integrate back into the community including for some, enrollment in a neighborhood school. This transition pathway is the focus of this intrinsic, instrumental, and descriptive qualitative case study. The purpose of this study was to determine components of transition for these youth enrolling back in neighborhood schools. The constructed themes align with the best practices of transition literature.
Keywords: Emotional and behavioral disorder, Transition, Residential
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64546/jaasep.645
