IRG — Intensive Residential Guidance.
To better help students, Flandreau Indian School offers an intensive residential guidance dormitory program — structured, therapeutic, and rooted in opportunity.
A meaningful program, structured around the student.
The Flandreau Indian School Intensive Residential Guidance Dormitory Program is structured and organized in an effort to have a meaningful program available to FIS students. The primary purpose is to assist students with demonstrated chemical-abuse behavior, poor academic achievement and attendance, and severely disruptive behavioral and emotional problems.
Focused support, where it matters.
Chemical-abuse behavior
Therapeutic support for residents working through substance-related challenges.
Academic achievement
Structured help for poor academic performance and attendance concerns.
Behavioral & emotional
Programming for residents with severely disruptive behavioral and emotional problems.
Counseling built around success.
The basic philosophy of the FIS dorm is to help students have positive experiences — structured around personal experiences of success, carried out through both counseling and recreational activities.
Individual counseling
One-on-one sessions designed around each resident's goals and progress.
Group counseling
Peer-based sessions that build trust, accountability, and community.
Combined approach
Individual and group counseling blended with structured recreation.
Measured progress. Continuous improvement.
Staff in the dorm engage residents in a planned, consistent manner designed to implement this philosophy. Built into the program is an evaluation tool that allows for both quantification of resident improvement and continuing program revision as areas of difficulty are identified.
Learn more about IRG.
Connect with our counselors or contact the school office for details on referrals, support, and the IRG dormitory program.