RAWHIDE YOUTH SERVICES

Our About Face Community Service Corps is a success-driven, intensive, residential program with an emphasis on behavioral changes. This program focuses on high school class improvement, vocational training, and community service, in which job trainers work side-by-side with the boys on construction, landscaping, and disaster relief projects. The About Face students alternate between participating in community service projects for two weeks and attending Rawhide’s on-site Starr Academy school.

Our Transitional Group Home, located on the New London campus, provides coaching, training and assistance to youth ages 13-18. The group home helps youth achieve their goals of life skills and applying them through community-based social, spiritual, recreational, educational, and employment opportunities. Group home students attend school and have jobs in their local communities to help with their transition back to their families or independent living.

Our counseling services provide a range of individual, group, and equine-assisted therapy for at-risk youth and their families struggling with behavioral and mental health conditions. Therapists use a blend of therapeutic styles and approaches (i.e., cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, and spiritual) tailored to meet the needs of a client. Our counseling centers are located in Appleton, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Milwaukee, New London, and Shiocton.

Our equine-assisted therapy benefits youth coping with
behavioral and mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and suicidal ideation. Sessions are conducted under the guidance of a therapist who specializes in equine therapy at our New London, Fond du Lac, and Shiocton locations.

Through our comprehensive assessment process, youth can
participate in occupational therapy services to help improve their cognitive, physical, sensory, and motor skills, as well as their confidence.

Rawhide offers fully licensed Treatment Foster Care to serve youth from the community or youth who have made a satisfactory adjustment in Rawhide’s residential program. Foster families and youth are fully supported through our programs and can choose to attend their local school or have the option to join Starr Academy.

Our Work Experience Program prepares at-risk youth for successful employment after discharging from Rawhide. This program cultivates the skills and work ethic that will assist youth in obtaining and maintaining employment once they return to their community. On campus work opportunities are available for youth in the vehicle program, equine program, facilities, and food service.

Starr Academy, located on the New London campus, is a fully accredited high school through the Wisconsin Religious and Independent Schools Accreditation (WRISA). Students earn credits in core subjects, such as math, reading, social studies, science, and physical education, while also earning elective credits and participating in job-training programs. Class sizes are small so each student can receive personal, one-on-one attention.

Alumni Services are provided to youth who have gone through Rawhide’s programs. Services to alumni can include continued counseling, educational support, as well as many other types of assistance.