JAMESTOWN – The GA Family Services Residential Treatment Center and Learning Center will be closing down within the next three months.
The operation known as Gustavus Adolphus Family Services made the announcement on Friday, saying it had filed a 90-day closure plan with the New York State Office of Child and Family Services and state Education Department.
GA Family Services provides a variety of services to at-risk youth and their families. There are currently 60 youth attending the Learning Center, which serves students with emotional and learning disabilities. The closure will impact 100 employees considered “direct care and ancillary support positions” with the nonprofit youth service organization. The Post-Journal is also reporting that in mid-October, teachers at the Learning center had recently voted to unionize and join the New York State United Teachers union. But officials say that by October, discussions on the center’s future were already taking place.
The two centers are part of the Lutheran Social Services organization.
Good about time that schools closed they hired people that love beating little kids yea some didn’t but 99 percent of them did so it’s good they are closing