Some of Rabiner Treatment Center’s services are being suspended for this year, the center’s chief executive officer said Friday.

“Rabiner Treatment Center is not ‘shutting down’ — we are suspending the residential treatment program, because we could not get enough Minnesota kids within the required amount of time,” said CEO Brad Klug in an email.

The suspension was first made public in the Manson Northwest Webster school board meeting this week, in which Superintendent Justin Daggett said the students from that program were in the process of being sent away from the center.

The consortium school at the center, which works through a partnership between area schools, will continue, Daggett said Friday.

“The consortium is still going because it’s a separate entity, and we’re renting the space from Rabiner Treatment Center,” he said.

MNW is the fiscal agent for the consortium, which included 21 schools as of November 2017, including Fort Dodge Community School District.

Information about Rabiner’s other programs was not available Friday. More should be known after the RTC board meets on Monday, Klug said.

“I don’t know what is going to happen,” Daggett said Friday.

The consortium’s lease is good until the summer, so “we’re good for the school year,” Daggett said.

The Rabiner Treatment Center began taking in Minnesota students for the first time in late November.

The center started looking at options after it was not awarded a key contract for group services from the Iowa Department of Human Services for the 2017-2018 year.

Klug said at the time this had nothing to do with the center’s quality. In fact just a few weeks later, in April 2017, the center received a three-year accreditation from the international Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

Rabiner is a residential treatment facility west of Fort Dodge. It was founded in 1961 by the Iowa State Police Association. It was known at the time as the Jerry Rabiner Memorial Boys Ranch. The site was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rabiner, in memory of their son, Jerry, who was killed in an auto accident in 1953.