ABOUT US

Matthias Academy opened in September 2020 on the beautiful grounds of the St. Benedict Abbey in Benet Lake | Salem WI. We are a nonprofit adult day program in southeast Wisconsin serving adults with mild to severe disabilities, specialized medical needs, behaviors, and mild to severe autism from Illinois and Wisconsin. As of May 2023 we are now at capacity serving over 90 individuals! This page serves as a marketing tool to help us get to the next stage which includes the development of 88 Acres 5 minutes from our current location in Trevor, WI. Currently being called the 83 Campus, because of its location right off Rt. 83, this land will eventually house the day program facility, a community center with shops and meeting facilities, a wood shop as well as a much needed residential community to support the participants in their independent lives as they move through their adult years.

Matthias Academy provides a student-centered program for adults to learn, work, and socialize. Classes are offered in several areas of study, such as Health and Wellness, Culinary Arts, Meteorology, Fashion and Design, Marketing, Communication, and Digital Media, Horticulture, Accounting, and Business Management, all tailored to individual learning levels. Adults have the opportunity to work within the gift shop, bakery, and bike shop of Matthias Academy and in the prep parts of those community-inviting stores. We highly encourage the involvement of the surrounding community to come into our facility to shop and visit, we also encourage the involvement of local schools and local colleges to volunteer and help! Times of recreation and leisure are guided, and exercise and mobility are required multiple times daily to maintain health and wellness. Independence is strongly encouraged and parent and student-guided goals are carried out throughout daily operations.