Your Team at Centerpoint
At Centerpoint you will have a “team” of people to offer support. Your team will include Centerpoint staff as well as people from your life outside of school. Your team will help you to achieve the things that you want, help you to explore new opportunities, help you to fulfill others’ expectations of you, and help you to set, and accomplish, your long-term goals. Your team at Centerpoint School begins with the School Director and Clinical Director.

These may be two of the first people you will meet at Centerpoint:
The Centerpoint School Director is Katie Decker. She can be reached at 802-488-7731 or through email at KatieD@CenterpointServices.org.
​
Centerpoint School’s Clinical Director is John Grimm. He can be reached at 802-324-4507 or through email at JohnG@CenterpointServices.org.

Your Centerpoint School House
Centerpoint School has a “House Model” in which a small group of students and a small group of staff work closely together. While students have opportunities and access to all of the resources at Centerpoint, this smaller “House Model” allows the student-staff relationships and student-student relationships to become much more supportive, consistent, and helpful.
Your House will consist of other students, a dedicated group of counselors and teachers, a school social worker, and a house leader. You’ll be assigned to a House that best meets your needs, interests, and goals.  Each House is a little different.  Some Houses are more oriented toward “classroom” work or group work, and some are more oriented to community-based learning with mentorships and internships.

 Historically, we have organized our students between 5 houses (Sequoia, Magnolia, Cedar, Maple and Aspen). Starting the 17-18 school year, we will be moving to a 4 house model (Sequoia, Magnolia, Cedar and Birch). Each house will have a House Leader, Social worker and between 5-8 staff working with the 10-12 students in each house. We have found that we are able to build better schedules and programming- while still maintaining focused relationship and personalization- when we have a slightly bigger group of students to work with in each house.


Sequoia  Location 1025 Airport Drive South Burlington 
 House Leader: Lorcan Ackley, Social Worker: Elisabeth Smith

Cedar 94 West Canal Street Winooski
 House Leader: Kevin Mailepors, Social Worker: Susan McArdle

Magnolia 94 West Canal Street Winooski
 House Leader: John Oliver Social Worker: Corrine Mertz

Birch (former Aspen/Maple) 94 West Canal Street Winooski
 House Leader: Luke Hasselbeck, Social Worker: Becky Ruess
 

Quick Links

Contact Information for the Houses

Click on each house below to see pictures and contact information of the staff working in each house. If you are not sure which house your student is working with, please contact Katie Decker: 802-324-2378 
Picture
Sequoia House
Picture
Magnolia House
Picture
Cedar House
Picture
Birch House