Serving children with unique challenges and abilities and their families since 1957, Green Tree School & Services (GTSS) programs and services include a licensed Approved Private School, Outpatient Services, Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services and School Therapeutic Services. It is located in historic West Oak Lane, but provides services throughout the Greater Philadelphia area. GTSS serves over 350 individuals per year with Autism Spectrum Disorder, those who are identified as Seriously Emotionally Disturbed, the Neurologically Impaired, and others through its Behavioral Health Outpatient program. Please call (215) 866-0200, or visit Green Tree School & Services website at www.gts-s.org to learn more.
About Us
Our Core Values
Every Child Learns
Every child deserves a quality education regardless of their special needs. We believe that it is our collective, civic responsibility to provide every student in our school with the best possible education.
Focus on Ability, not Disability
All students present their own unique challenges and educational issues. However, we focus on student progress and achievement in a nurturing environment that values growth.
Purposeful Partnerships
We encourage our students, their parents, and our staff to collaborate, to set tangible goals and achieve them. We are active within the region, positively impacting our neighbors, colleagues, and the community.
Personalized Care
We meet the vastly different needs of our students through providing blended interventions within our academic education curriculums and mental health wraparound services / BHRS.
Our educational philosophy focuses on the acquisition of academic, personal, vocational and social skills necessary to enable students to succeed in school and throughout the lifespan. We have been aiding students with special needs since 1957, marking 50 years of educational achievement and innovation.
Green Tree School & Services programs give agency and voice to the myriad of needs surrounding special education and mental health and human services. We integrate experiential instruction, vocational training, music therapy, movement therapy, color therapy, art instruction, speech therapy, physical education, individual counseling and life skills coaching into all of our curriculum tracks
Green Tree Partnerships, a division of Green Tree School & Services, is an initiative designed to assist institutions in building their capacities, through a broad range of innovative, data-driven educational approaches that have helped numerous students make behavioral, social and academic progress. Green Tree Partnerships provides professionals in schools the expertise, guidance, and support necessary for optimizing existing services and meeting the varied educational needs of special students
Speakers from GTSS are highly trained educators, behavior specialist and psychologists who are informed, and on the cutting edge of their profession. Our areas of expertise, including:
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creative Curriculum Development
Best Practices in Special Education
Managing Behavioral Difficulties in Students (Deviant Behaviors)
Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Healthy Family Relationships
Effective Communication between Teachers & Parents (Home & School)
Green Tree School & Services prides itself on strategic alliances and community ties. We desire to build with like-minded institutions, non profit organizations, government entities, philanthropist and businesses. We invite an open dialogue, on how our organizations can build a mutually beneficial partnership, by working to create opportunities for our students. We warmly welcome you into the school community, and look forward to your continued involvement as GTSS celebrates 50 years of "Enhancing the lives of children and their families."
To discover, develop and deliver opportunities for children with unique challenges and abilities to achieve their full potential.
Green Tree School & Services' vision is to "Transform Lives" and "Impact Communities."