| New
Perspectives
- Oct, 1993 Issue #24 |
[Editorial Comment: New Horizons Youth
Ministries has informed us since this New Perspectives was
written, they now enroll only students that have not yet turned
18. -Lon Dec. 14, 2005]
NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES
Marion, Ind.; Ontario, Canada;
and Escuela Caribe, Dominican Republic
Dr. Gordon C. Blossom, Founder * 1 (800) 333-4009
by Linda Shaffer
New Horizons is a therapeutic
educational program designed for emotionally, socially, and
educationally underachieving adolescents utilizing three locations
- the U.S., Canada and the Dominican Republic.
Stateside, students attend school
in Marion, Ind. with academics in the morning. After
school cleanup, the afternoon is for therapeutic groups, physical
education, chapels and study periods.
The Dominican Republic
program has seven buildings on 25 acres in the central highlands
amidst palm-fringed beaches, rice paddies and mountains. Experience-oriented
learning is emphasized with teachers providing tutored course
work on a one-to-one basis. Music, recreation, hiking and
anthropology field trips are a part of learning about the
culture in which the students are living.
The third program is in the remote
Canadian north woods -- in the Missanabie Woods. Here,
there is time to consider past and present choices away from
negative peer influence. The staff have degrees or certification
in outdoor education, English, biology, chemistry, math, history,
psychology, home and family, water safety instruction, emergency
medical training and Christian education.
Copyright
© 1993, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
without prior approval if the copyright notice and proper
publication and author attribution accompanies the copy.)
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