The therapists also work with day-treatment patients in the Circle School Program. Circle School provides special education programs for day school students. Students are enrolled from a few months to the entire school year. Patients from the inpatient program also attend the school.

Circle School students participate in the Recreation Therapy Program including two to four therapeutic groups per day. The goal is to enhance the patient's well-being, improve quality of life, and promote a healthy leisure lifestyle through participation in skill building groups and leisure activities. Therapeutic groups focus on stress management, anger management, improving self-esteem, creative expression, music therapy, social skills, and health maintenance.

Students participate in:

• Physical skills—work on fine and gross motor skills, coordination, balance, and sportsmanship
• Noon groups—special activities for friendship and social skills (day students only)
• Art—developing hobbies, new interests, creativity, and self expression
• Star Power—skill building that focuses on anger management, coping skills, and friendship skills
• Music therapy—improving self-esteem, expressing feelings and increasing awareness
• Social skills—focus on peer interactions, friendship skills, and appropriate public behavior
• Community awareness—enjoying and behaving appropriately in movies, parks, restaurants, etc.
• Leisure skills—exposure to active and inactive games, competitive and non-competitive skills, and cooperative play
• Safety awareness—training in stranger danger, environmental dangers, and fire safety
• Exercise Education—promotes exercising in a healthy and safe manner