Every child needs to be a child - to laugh and play, to have friends, to go to school and to learn, to develop and grow, to feel confidence and hope. Every family wants to give their child that experience. Children afflicted with serious emotional problems are all too often denied their childhood. In its place, they live with school failure, social isolation, and a family life of distress and despair.

It is Clear View’s mission to relieve that despair and to give children and families challenged by mental illness a special environment in which to grow, learn, and master their difficulties. For forty years The Clear View School Day Treatment Program has set a standard of excellence in providing such a setting for hundreds of children suffering from severe emotional problems.