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ABOUT US

Mohonk was established in 1981 in Westport, CT and is incorporated as a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to youth in the United States and worldwide. Today Mohonk offers a wide variety of educational, recreational, and therapeutic programs as well as scholarships and rewards for youth, the most dramatic of which challenges youths to create community service projects in their state or in other countries.

Mohonk began as a center for family and child therapy but quickly expanded to include a residential home for children who had been neglected, abused, orphaned with no family in sight, or thrown out on to the streets with no place to turn.

What makes Mohonk stand out as the first of its kind in the United States and, perhaps, the world are the programs and methods we use. They are based upon our current knowledge of the human brain.  We developed therapeutical, psychological, and educational methods that directly effect the development of a child’s brain. We offer free sessions for teachers, psychologists, and social workers in order to become knowledgeable about our groundbreaking and innovative practices. We also, offer three to six week training programs for professionals to provide training and certification to incorporate these practices within their programs. For those that are interested please visit our contact us page.

The director, Dr. David Singer, served as a state psychologist specializing in adolescence before founding Mohonk in 1981. He has also been a private therapist for four decades, and a Visiting Scholar at MIT where he was invited to help adapt what we now know about the human brain to child development and clinical considerations. Dr. Singer also provided Microsoft with educational assessment technology that became the linchpin for incorporating individualized learning styles and the brain development of children worldwide.