Spruce Mountain Inn

Meals & Dining


Spruce Mountain Inn’s in-house chef prepares fresh, nutritious meals with a focus on variety, wellness, and community. Meals typically feature local and seasonal produce, healthy proteins, salads and/or soup, and an assortment of side options. Residents and staff dine together in our dining room or common room, often eating outside when the weather is nice. Meals are served buffet-style and are a time of community building at Spruce.

In keeping with our focus on independent living skill development, all residents participate in Cooking Group in order to build or advance their cooking skills. Under the guidance of our chef, they will learn fundamentals of menu planning, food preparation and storage, knife skills, and a variety of cooking techniques. When they are ready, residents move out of Cooking Group and join the rotation of residents who cook dinner for their peers several nights per week.

In addition to the meals and snacks that are provided, residents may buy small amounts of personal snack or food items and store them in a personal cubby or in the resident refrigerator.

Residential treatment is an immersive, community-based approach that has the potential to be much more effective than treatment received in someone's typical living environment. The benefits of residential treatment for anxiety/depression/OCD include:

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Testimonials


Thank goodness there are people in this world like yourselves who are so dedicated to helping people like our son and families like ours who are in dire need. Thank you for all that you are and all that you do.
Family from Vermont
Wow, what a special place you have in Spruce Mountain Inn. The people working at Spruce are incredible and they are what makes your program so special and so unique! I had no idea how warm, nurturing and professional a place you have
Educational Consultant from Tennessee
I benefitted most from all of the therapy and the sense of community. I had been isolated at home doing nothing. I learned for the first time how to make and maintain true relationships. I lived in Manhattan and experienced the expect culture shock, but found it so good for me to be in a different place. At Spruce, the small community is worth everything. Staff really care and they are eager to help. Clients learn how to get along and it is easy to form meaningful relationships, and I benefitted from the structure. I went from being unable to function to acting as the lead in a well-established local theatre company production.
Resident from Pennsylvania
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Why Residential Treatment


Residential treatment programs have the potential to be much more effective than treatment received in someone's typical living environment. Our program is designed to be immersive and community-based.

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The benefits of residential treatment include:


24-hour access to a seasoned team of caring, professional staff.

Full immersion in a supportive community with other young people working to overcome similar challenges.

The opportunity to experience a fresh environment, break habits, and escape triggers experienced in a typical living situation.

The opportunity to work, build life-skills, and contribute creatively in a controlled, supportive setting.

Moderating the use of technology and social media, the overuse of which may fuel anxiety and depression.

Family therapy (for parents and other affected family members) to help improve communication, foster cooperation, and facilitate healthy respect among family members.

Learn more about our approach to residential treatment.

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We are so proud of our most recent graduate! After months of trying, she finally has her drivers license!

At Spruce we support our residents in not only their mental health journey, but also independent living skills and career and education development.
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At Spruce Mountain Inn, we teach the residents how to cook healthy, balanced meals. Nutrition, and cooking for others, can be important to mental health recovery. Our chef teaches the residents how to prepare a meal for the community. ...

Spruce is taking advantage of the winter, and mountains, by offering multiple ski trips this season. Sometimes we need to be pushed out of our comfort zones in order to take the next step. What better place to do it than on top of a mountain! ...

Lindsay, one of our primary therapists is teaching the directors in our clinical meeting. I just had to get a picture of it. ...

The clinical team dressed in groutfits for Halloween. #teamwork ...