Belview Learning Center continues to offer services to many area districts

_{By Troy Krause
Editor
Posted Jan. 1, 2014}

In September 2003, a new education program was established in Redwood County.

More than a decade later, the Belview Learning Center has seen its program grow and continue to experience success.

According to Susie Terhaar, site coordinator for the Belview Learning Center (BLC), the program was initially opened as a Setting IV day treatment program and was established under the um-brella of the Redwood County Collaborative.

The collaborative provided the startup funds and oversight of the program, which opened its doors to school districts across the region.

“On that first day of classes, seven students were enrolled from seven different area school districts and five different counties,” explained Terhaar.

The first staff included five members filling different roles.

The center was initially established to work with students who were receiving special education services and also needed mental health services.

The staff not only included educators but counselors, therapists and mental health practitioners. The center allowed students who required those added services to receive them closer to home. Before 2003 getting those services required students to travel some distance or to be placed out of their home.

Now they are able to go to school and still be at home.  Click here to read the complete article!