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Places for Struggling Teens™ “It Is More Important to Get It Right, Than to Get It First.” Places for Struggling Teens™ “It is more important to get it right, than to get it first.” Published by Woodbury Reports, Inc.™ March 2007 Issue #151 SEEN ‘N HEARD... UNLICENSED AND FEBRUARY VISITORS: Greg Hitchcock, Randy Russell, UNREGULATED? Amanda Thomas... By: Lon Woodbury MMS PRESENTS AT In some circles, there have been growing demands from LEGISLATURE... critics insisting that private parent-choice schools and programs, both residential therapeutic and emotional ELK RIVER EXPANDS growth boarding schools, be regulated through licensing. CURRICULUM... One stated presumption is there is no oversight over these programs because they are unlicensed and unregulated. There also seems to ISPA ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY be the presumption that with oversight, these programs will stop the perceived AWARDS... abusive and punitive methods that are claimed common. Another presumption is that lack of government or any other type of oversight is the ASPEN PARTICIPATES IN rule, and that responsible programs are the exception. STUDY... I’ve always wondered exactly what programs these critics have in mind. True, ASPIRO MAINTAINS PRICE there are some rogue operators who manage to get away with it for a time, LEVEL... despite being roundly condemned by legitimate professionals in the field, including responsible Educational Consultants and programs. Many have ICR WELCOMES MENTORS... eventually been shut down by the authorities or otherwise forced to close their doors. I am aware of some who have settled in foreign countries to avoid any RUDOLPH JOINS AIMHOUSE... Continued: UNLICENSED/ pg 3 LIFE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ACCREDITED... Inside... New Perspectives: Continued Pinnacle Wilderness/ 23 ROGERS MEMORIAL CAC TO Essays: OPEN YOUTH PROGRAM... Skills for Coaching: Part I/ 6 Book Reviews: Can Your Kids Count On You?/ 9 Last Chance in TX/ 23 PARHAM TO HEAD NATSAP ED COMMITTEE... Visits: Extended Insights: CALO TO OFFICIALLY OPEN... High Frontier/ 11 Finding Online Charter Optimum Performance/ 14 Schools / 25 Wediko/ 16 SCHROM EXECUTIVE Sober College/ 19 DIRECTOR OF NWA News & Views/ 26 [For details on these and others, read New Perspectives: SEEN N’ HEARD/ Pg 27] COLT School/ 21 Gersh College/ 22 Seen N’ Heard/ 27 [Essays and articles appearing in this publication are the opinions of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the policy of Woodbury Reports, Inc.,™ or StrugglingTeens.com.™ We urge our readers to conduct their own investigation of the products and services identified herein.] Lon Woodbury - Publisher - 208-267-5550 - Fax: 208-267-9127 - www.StrugglingTeens.com Woodbury Reports™ is an information source to help Woodbury Reports, Inc.™ parents find the right school or program when their child has Pioneering the Referral Service behavioral/ emotional problems. We are specifically concerned for Schools & Programs. with children needing more intensive intervention than local resources or day programs can provide. The Parent Empowerment Handbook™ 2006/07 Our focus is on high quality and effective Emotional Growth A Self-published Directory of 100+ schools and and/ or Therapeutic schools and programs, which can include programs nationwide, screened for reputation, short- and long-term outdoor programs, family style living longevity and effectiveness. Includes Essays, arrangements, highly structured boarding schools, therapeutic Transport Professionals, Visit Reports, & boarding schools, RTCs or psychiatric hospitals. Educational Consultants. The Woodbury Reports, Inc.TM website award ™ An important goal of these schools and programs is to teach for Schools, Programs, The Woodbury Reports Newsletter self-discipline through consequences, so the child will learn to be & Consultants included A monthly publication designed for more responsible for his/ her actions. How attitudes are changed in the Parent Empowerment professionals working with children and and who is successful is at the focus of each issue of Reports. Handbook™ - 2006/07 young adults that focuses on Emotional Growth Schools and Programs. StrugglingTeens.com™ Over 10,000 pages WE THANK THE ADVERTISERS Website Design & Hosting Who make this newsletter possible!! Award Winning Sites Online Since 1995 Woodbury Reports, Inc™ accepts advertising from a Consultations variety of schools and programs; however, inclusion in Personalized help for Parents In Crisis: We offer Educational the Newsletter does not imply an endorsement of these Lon Woodbury, MA Consultations to help parents think schools or programs by WRI™ through the out-of-control behaviors their child is exhibiting and suggest appropriate placement options. All of our consultants have raised teenagers and helped Places for Struggling Teens™ is published monthly. One many parents professionally. We believe that parents should be in year subscriptions are $33 USD. Non-Continental US charge in a responsible manner, postal orders add $5 USD. Loi Eberle, MA and we believe in suggesting solutions rather than telling our Places for Struggling Teens™ is published by clients what they should do. Woodbury Reports, Inc.™ Judi Bessette, EdD Lon Woodbury, Publisher. Research Affiliate [email protected] Copyright © 2007, by Woodbury Reports, Inc.™ For More Info Contact: All Rights Reserved. Use of materials is allowed without Linda Zimmerman, LPCC prior written approval if the proper author and publication Kristie Henley attribution accompanies the copy. Duplication or [email protected] republication must include the following information: 208-267-5550 208-267-9127 fax WOODBURY REPORTS, INC.™ PO Box 1107 Bonners Ferry, ID 83805 PO Box 1107 • 7119 2nd Street www.strugglingteens.com Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805 Larry Stednitz, PhD 208-267-5550 (p) “Some Children just need to be heard, not cured.” 208-267-9127 (f) Lon Woodbury, IECA, MA, CEP, is an educational consultant who has [email protected] worked in schools and programs for emotional growth, character education, www.strugglingteens.com and consulting for parents of struggling teens since 1984. Prior to that, he taught in public schools and was involved in public policy while working for the US Senate and the Executive Office of the President. Lon received his BS and MA degrees from the University of Idaho. His practice includes 1540-3718 a referral service for parents and professionals, and the publication of this Newsletter and the PARENT EMPOWERMENT HANDBOOK,™ a ISSN: 1540-3718 resource of Places for Struggling Teens.™ Woodbury Reports, Inc.: March 2007: #151 2 208-267-5550 www.strugglingteens.com UNLICENSED: Continued from page 1 kind of oversight. (This doesn’t include those who view of the question of how many of the programs conscientiously follow US standards even when they were regulated with state oversight. The list of 100 are not forced to by foreign governments.) There are schools and programs includes many wilderness others I am aware of who take kids as a type of group programs and therapeutic boarding schools, as well home and claim their business license or permit (or as many residential treatment centers and some equivalent) is all that is necessary. But in my mainstream type schools who take students experience, these are the exceptions, the bad apples transitioning from more highly structured schools that any industry is plagued with. Apparently the and programs. The following are the schools and critics believe that these rogue operations are the programs, as reported to us for the Handbook, from norm, thus the terms “unlicensed and unregulated.” the 100 leaders in the private industry of residential In their view, since the industry is “unlicensed and parent-choice schools and programs, that have either unregulated,” federal legislation creating federal some kind of state licensure or JCAHO accreditation, oversight is a vital necessity. or both. To answer the accusation that this industry is Adirondack Leadership Expeditions “unlicensed and unregulated,” I went to the list of the Permit from New York Department of Health top hundred schools and programs as viewed by the Anasazi Foundation leading Independent Educational Consultants. JCAHO accredited, licensed by Arizona These are the schools and programs found in my Department of Economic Security and Parent Empowerment Handbook™, and are based on Department of Human Services as a Behavioral an annual survey among the leading Independent Healthcare Provider. Educational Consultants. The last edition was Aspen Achievement Academy published in early summer last year. These schools JCAHO accredited, licensed as an Outdoor and programs are the ones with the best reputations. Treatment Program by the Utah Department of They are presumably the most often used for Human Services placement by professional Independent Educational Aspen Ranch Consultants and are leaders in our network. These Licensed as a Residential Treatment Center in schools and programs are at the heart of the industry Utah that is being accused of being “unlicensed and Boulder Creek Academy unregulated.” Licensed by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Below is a list of those schools and programs that are Catherine Freer licensed and regulated. I didn’t include those only JCAHO accredited, licensed as a Mental Health under the umbrella of a state’s Children’s Protective Program and an Alcohol and Drug Abuse Service, or equivalent, with a mandate to intervene if Program by the State of Oregon any child in their jurisdiction is abused, which is a Center for Change form of regulation. I also didn’t include those who JCAHO accredited are
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