St. Stephen's Academy at Glade Run Lutheran Services

Glade Run Gardens serves as a therapeutic, vocational, and educational program for children throughout Western Pennsylvania. Students at St. Stephen's, Glade Run's private licensed school, participate in horticulture programming as part of their curriculum, learning about plants and the natural environment and developing a love of nature. For children in residential treatment at Glade Run for emotional health issues, the gardens serve still other purposes: horticulture therapy and a vocational program. For children in the communities, particularly children with special emotional or developmental disabilities including autism, the program provides an environment where children can learn, develop social skills, grow self esteem, and understand how to be nurturing with living things. Our goal is to serve as many children (and adults) with unique and special needs through the use of plants and the natural environment. This program is supported by Glade Run.