Many of our educational and recreational programs are offered throughout the year in Westport and in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Others are offered as individual scheduled day trips for everything from to factories that manufacture baseball bats to meeting Wall Street executives in New York and visiting universities in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts.
In the Berkshires and we have a 185-acre site in Mt Washington, MA. where we offer numerous programs including nature studies that are especially oriented towards conservation and endangered species, wilderness survival experiences, camping, even bee keeping, and organic farming. Our programs are genuinely orientated to encompass the unique abilities, motivation, and interests of every child.
We offer parent and child support groups, individual therapy, and a large breadth of intelligence and personality testing including assessments for autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities. We also have a widely known specialty for gifted and talented children.
Mohonk offers yearly college scholarships, including those for students who might not otherwise qualify for academic awards. We also offer an annual challenge for children to develop and conduct a community service program in their own community or with children in other countries. The awards have been as high as $10,000.
Our book speaks to the history of Mohonk, the reasons for its founding, and an explanation of the seven brain-based methods. Most importantly, it focuses on the use of those methods within the life stories of the children whose lives we touched. It is due to be published in 2023.
If you have the time and interest, please read the attached Chapter 1 of our book, No Such Thing as A Bad Kid, The Neuroscience of Raising Children. This will give you an overview of the children and their stories as well as the leading-edge methods and programs we have developed to engage and benefit children.
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.
Our employment is primarily based upon contractual agreements with professionals in many friends. This includes psychiatrists, psychologists, experts in diverse fields such as conservation, technology, architecture, scuba diving, etc. .We also will extend our internship programs with universities and recognized organizations that focus on children including UNICEF. This can change every year. In addition, we STRONGLY encourage volunteers, especially in fields they have expertise. Retired individuals are golden.
Mohonk raises funds and donated merchandise to help destitute, abandoned, and orphaned children in the United States and many countries. This has included clothes, backpacks, sneakers, bicycles, and anything related to education, especially computers. Students at MIT have repaired computers as needed. We have supported programs in Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, Ghana, Costa Rica, Turkey, India, and the Philippines. We also schedule international trips for students to visit their peers in other countries.
