Nina Aliprandi Finds Inspiration at Maryville Academy

After the birth of her medically fragile daughter 12 years ago, Nina Aliprandi worried she would be distracted from the demands of her job caring for struggling children at Maryville Academy. Instead, Aliprandi discovered that her daughter enriched and informed the work, allowing Maryville to launch two important preventative programs for struggling families: the Crisis […]

Dog Therapy: The Power of Healing

There are moments Carol Schuster questions why she continues to make the three-hour drive roundtrip just to spend an hour at Maryville Academy each month. Then she remembers her former foster daughter, Anna, who often spoke of the dog therapy program she participated in during her time at Maryville’s Eisenberg campus, a residential care facility […]