Our Goals
- To always consider first and be of direct benefit to the children, youth and families we serve.
- To provide new steps in the continuum of community-based services that Genesis can offer to the special needs children and families of Middle Tennessee.
- To always maintain the highest level of care and service for each child, youth, and family we serve.
- To provide young people and their families assistance before problems become so serious that solutions within the community are difficult to find and implement.
- To always maintain the highest level of management and stewardship of the programs, service contracts and funds entrusted to the Genesis organization.
Our Beliefs
Our students are precious gifts for the future. We have been chosen to be the bearers of these prized possessions they are placed in our care for us to nurture, cherish, and protect. No task on earth is greater, nor more prestigious, than to care for and prepare God's special children for their future
Our Strengths
What follows are some of the attributes of Genesis Programs that set us apart:
- Hands-on Executive Director and Assistant Executive Director who are directly involved with students and staff on a daily basis.
- Human Resource Director who ensures proper screening of applicants and coordinates training activities.
- Qualified and certified teaching staff serving students with a teacher-counselor and associate teacher-counselor in every classroom of no more than 10 to 12 students.
- Full time, on-site social workers who provide individual and group support to students and their families. Three of these individuals are LCSWs.
- Through the social workers strong community liaison services linking children and their families to a variety of other social service agencies.
- Daily group goal, counseling and problem solving sessions held at the beginning and end of each day.
- School-wide Incentive Programs that includes:
Caught Being Good
Caught Following Dress Code
Random Acts of Kindness
Caught Being Good on the Bus
Caught Not Bullying
- Student of the Week: A “Student of the Week” is awarded for each class on Friday. Certificates are completed by the teacher and turned-in with the Weekly Student Reports.
- School Store: Students have the opportunity to save or “cash-in” their daily points each week at their trip to the school store. The store is equipped with snacks, batteries, holiday items, electronics, sports equipment, and clothes.
- An expanded behavioral intervention program that includes daily points, levels, goals, and reinforces for the attainment of these intervention objectives.
- TN Department of Education certified School-to-Work instructor on the Genesis Academy staff.
- Certified Handle with Care instructors on staff to train and support other staff during crisis interventions.
- Free and reduced lunch program through the TN Department of Education.
- Additional student snack "store" in conjunction with Second Harvest Food Bank to again assure students are adequately nourished with state approved snacks.
- Attendance enhancement program offering students with perfect attendance each week with a special Friday Awards. Further, parents and the school system are regularly notified of attendance issues.
- Outside play area that includes an asphalt area for basketball, and large climbing playground.
- Weekly family communication including daily progress notes for elementary students and weekly progress notes for high school students.
- Video monitoring in all classrooms and major activity areas.
- Security system including monitored magnetic locked front entrance and alarms on all auxiliary entrances/exits.
- Handicapped accessible entrance, bathroom, classrooms, and meeting rooms.
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