Children’s Guild is a nonprofit, child-serving organization dedicated to serving children and adolescents with trauma disorders, who have been traumatized by life experiences or who have autism spectrum disorder and/or multiple disabilities in Maryland and Washington D.C. Founded in 1953, The Children’s Guild has become one of the largest providers of special education, group living, treatment foster care and family mental health services in Maryland.The Children’s Guild programs are guided by Transformation Education (TranZed), an organizational philosophy that fosters a culture of flexibility. This culture creates management and staff who are agile thinkers. This assures children are treated as individuals and taught the way they learn best. We also operate public charter schools in Anne Arundel, Baltimore City and Washington, DC who are guided by the same mission and values. TranZed also infuses the beliefs and values of The Children’s Guild into the look of its physical environment, child-caring and educational approaches, the mindset of its employees, and its operating systems. The design of the physical environment and the approaches used to care for and educate children are based on the newest findings in neuroscience, and therefore creates an enriched, brain-compatible environment. This philosophy has been proven to:
- Increase return to less restrictive environment
- Increase ability to manage difficult children
- Increase academic scores
- Decrease child care worker, foster parent and teacher turnover rates
- Decrease need for physical crisis intervention
- Decrease time focused on crisis management
- Decrease cost of deliberate destruction and damage
- Mission
Through a process of adult and organizational transformation, we teach children the values and life skills necessary for a successful life, one filled with caring, contribution and commitment, empowering each child with:
- The vision to see
- The courage to try
- The will to succeed
- Certification & Accreditation
The Children’s Guild’s educational programs are approved by the Maryland State Department of Education, and its child-caring programs and mental health center are licensed by theMaryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The Children’s Guild day schools in Baltimore City and Prince George’s County are accredited by theNational Commission for the Accreditation of Special Education Services.