The James R. Sylla School, a state certified special education school located on the Sunny Hills San Anselmo Campus, meets the individual educational needs of 13 to 18 year olds from Sunny Hills Services, Sunny Hills program and from the greater Bay Area community. Most students have severe learning disabilities in addition to significant mental health and behavior disorders, especially conflict and anger management issues. A state-funded Title I teacher and Sunny Hills Services speech therapist provide one-on-one strategies for learning disabilities in a self-contained classroom; two subject area classrooms, for language arts and science/math, mimic public school life within a structured and supportive environment. Sylla School's two staff social workers, trained in crisis and conflict management, lessen the level and amount of a client's agitation by guiding him or her through serious socialization difficulties, and its established vocational program teaches employable skills with the goal of giving clients the tools to find and maintain fulfilling employment in the community. Sylla School strives to mainstream students into public schools; alternatively, it offers diplomas to graduating seniors when they complete all credits required by their home school district. ...read more