Special Educational Services
St. Vincent’s Villa
St. Vincent’s Villa offers residential treatment and diagnostic services for children between the agesof 5 and 13 with significant emotional and behavioral challenges in a state of the art facility. LEARN MORE>>
Villa Maria School
The Villa Maria School offers intensive educational, clinical and diagnostic services for children and youth with emotional and learning disabilities. LEARN MORE>>
Special Educational Services in the News, Stories & Testimonials
St. Elizabeth earns outstanding review from regulators
Despite the ongoing national pandemic due to COVID-19, St. Elizabeth Rehabilitation and Nursing Center has received a glowing survey review from regulating authorities. The Maryland Office of Health Care Quality conducted a surprise inspection of [...]
With caution and care, bringing back services stopped by COVID in senior communities
Knowing the risk of severe illness from COVID-19 increases with age, Catholic Charities’ senior communities responded to the pandemic quickly and thoroughly, restricting gatherings and cancelling some of the in-house health services available to residents. [...]
Is telehealth here to stay?
Three months into the quarantine prompted by COVID-19, Behavioral Health Administrator Karen Haughey asked her team to think about how a sudden pivot to providing counseling and other behavioral health services online and over [...]
Advocacy helps avert cuts to projected state funding
Clients and patients who use Medicaid to pay for their care, and the professionals who care for them, will not be impacted now that the threat of a cut to projected reimbursement rates has been [...]
Catholic Charities faces significant impact from proposed state budget cuts
With the COVID-19 crisis still underway, Catholic Charities' 2021 fiscal-year budget faces a significant challenge in a newly proposed state budget. The budget cut proposal, just introduced, would leave funding for Medicaid provider rates flat [...]
Thankful for thoughtfulness
When Landsdowne Worship Center offered a bit of love to Caritas House earlier this month, the congregants thought of everything: gift bags for residents, homecooked meals for every shift of employees, and a distribution process [...]