Monarch Center for Autism at Bellefaire JCB provides a comprehensive living and learning environment for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other co-occurring diagnoses. Located on a beautiful 32-acre campus, Monarch offers residential treatment programs, a residential education school, and a day school, grounded in our visual language immersion treatment model, and supported by a highly credentialed interdisciplinary team of professionals. We empower individuals by employing personalized and consistent visual and regulation supports, technology, and elements of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). These help to develop communication, alleviate frustration, reduce maladaptive behaviors, build confidence, increase independence, and enrich quality of life.

The leadership team at Monarch is driven by a shared commitment to helping individuals with autism reach their fullest potential. With expertise spanning education, clinical services, and program innovation, our leaders work collaboratively to provide exceptional, evidence-based support that meets the unique needs of each individual and family.

Monarch Center for Autism Leadership Team

• Medical Director: Emily Cao. MD
• Director of Residential Autism Services: Eric Feitl, MA, BCBA, COBA
• Monarch School Director: Jennifer O’Keefe, LPCC-S
• Monarch School Assistant Director: Monica Fisher, M.Ed., BCBA, COBA

Guided by extensive evidence-based research, Bellefaire JCB partnered with Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital to design a dynamic response to the rising autism epidemic. The results were the invention of the Monarch Model and the opening of Monarch Day School in 2000. Bellefaire JCB expanded on this success by opening Monarch Boarding Academy (QRTP) in 2004, followed by Monarch Residential Education School in 2023 and Monarch Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) in 2024. Individualized and consistent programming, structured and safe environments, interdisciplinary collaboration, and family involvement, have enabled Monarch to improve the daily quality of life for individuals with autism and their families for decades.