Hillcrest Educational Center

About Hillcrest Educational Center

Hillcrest Educational Centers, Inc. (HEC) is a private nonprofit agency serving students from across the country. Hillcrest was started as an organization that provided residential treatment programs for students with complex psychiatric, behavioral and/or developmental disorders, including autism, and a variety of high risk behaviors. Today Hillcrest also offers a nonresidential day program, providing comprehensive educational and clinical behavior support services to children and adolescents with autism and/or social-emotional challenges. The programs and services at HEC are state licensed and certified, and the agency is accredited in behavioral health care by the Joint Commission.