Positive Education Program

06/01/2026

Join the PEP team!

Available Positions:

🍎Classroom Associate (Fairview Park, OH or Parma Heights, OH)
🍎1:1 Aide (Fairview Park, OH, Parma Heights, OH or Cleveland, OH)
🍎OhioRISE Care Coordinator Supervisor
🍎OhioRISE Care Coordinator – Flexible Schedule, $2500 sign-on bonus
🍎Associate Teacher Counselor – Float (Grafton, OH)
🍎Intervention Specialist or Substitute Teacher ($2500 sign-on bonus)
🍎Float School Nurse (LPN) – would be floating between all PEP Therapeutic Schools
🍎Clerical Assistant (Parma Heights, OH)
🍎Therapeutic School Program Specialist
🍎Behavior Support Specialist (Parma Heights, OH)
🍎School Based Speech Language Pathologist (Parma Heights, OH)

Find out more here: https://www.pepcleve.org/work-with-us

05/29/2026

🥇Last week, students and teacher-counselors at held their own two-day Olympic Games! Competition was fun, fair, and fierce as kids and staff brought together their athletic skills and integrity to make a memorable event that reinforced PEP's vision of an equitable community where every young person is valued and experiences joy and deep fulfillment. The event also reinforced PEP's values of Joy, Heart, Integrity, Aspiration, and Courage. 🫶

Learn more about PEP's programs here: https://www.pepcleve.org/who-we-are/about-pep.

05/28/2026

's IHBT team has been busy with Life Adventure Family Functioning (LAFF) training the last few months. The LAFF program teaches family engagement strategies and skills to use in counseling sessions to better engage caregivers as natural family leaders, and foster a healthier home environment.

IHBT stands for Intensive Home-Based Treatment, PEP's top tier of service for the highest need kids.

Could you or someone you know benefit from PEP's IHBT program? Find out more here: https://tinyurl.com/3ukhssrc

05/28/2026

🍅🍌Students and teacher-counselors at assist with Market Day, a monthly event in which bags of free produce are available to anyone in the community who stops by the school.

The program is made possible by the Greater Cleveland Food Bank and is part of the school’s social-emotional learning program for students in all grades. Student volunteers learn about following rules, regulating their emotions, and acceptable behavior in community settings as part of their volunteer experience. The experience boosts self-esteem and confidence, and gives kids a way to interact with members of their community in a positive way.

Market Day takes place the second Wednesday of every month from 12-2 p.m. and is free and open to all.🍎🥦

05/27/2026

As the 2025-2026 school year draws to a close, our kids and their teacher-counselors are getting ready for graduation celebrations at each of our therapeutic schools.

Those celebrations wouldn't be possible without our PEP supporters, who together helped us exceed our $150,000 fundraising goal at our annual PEP Rally on May 7. We couldn't have done it without the generosity of our donors, sponsors, and community partners.

Thanks for helping our kids have a great year!

Positive Education Program is grateful to the many supporters who helped raise more than $150,000 during the 2026 PEP Rally for Kids.

05/27/2026

🔨These students from are learning all about basic construction skills, thanks to PEP's partnership with Cuyahoga Community College's College Credit Plus program!

The students at PEP all face significant challenges, from trauma, to difficulty regulating emotions to mental health issues. Many of them will be the first in their families to graduate from high school. To not only take a class at a college, but to also earn college credit before graduating high school, transformed the way some of the students saw themselves and what they perceived their futures to be. 🔧

05/26/2026

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. 🫶

According to the national Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), students ages 6-17 with mental, emotional or behavioral problems are more than twice as likely to repeat a grade. That's why PEP is proud to administer behavioral health services through OhioRISE.
OhioRISE is a program for youth under 21 who have significant behavioral challenges, including anxiety, developmental disabilities, trauma or struggles at school. OhioRISE can connect families with a care coordinator who will help them access services designed to help children thrive at home and in the community.

Learn more about OhioRISE at https://tinyurl.com/5cmwwuhh.

05/26/2026

Come work with us!

The available positions are:

🍎Classroom Associate (Fairview Park, OH or Parma Heights, OH)
🍎1:1 Aide (Fairview Park, OH, Parma Heights, OH or Cleveland, OH)
🍎OhioRISE Care Coordinator Supervisor
🍎OhioRISE Care Coordinator – Flexible Schedule, $2500 sign-on bonus
🍎Associate Teacher Counselor – Float (Parma Heights, OH)
🍎Intervention Specialist or Substitute Teacher ($2500 sign-on bonus)
🍎Float School Nurse (LPN) – would be floating between all PEP Therapeutic Schools
🍎Therapeutic School Program Specialist
🍎Behavior Support Specialist

Find out more, and apply, here: https://www.pepcleve.org/work-with-us.

05/25/2026

Enjoy the holiday!

05/22/2026

📚 In March, teacher-counselors at celebrated books and reading with a book fair for their students! The book fair included all kinds of goodies and treats to get the kids excited about reading!

Decades of research has shown that when children have their own books at home, they not only develop better reading comprehension and larger vocabularies--they become lifelong readers. 📖