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Seen 'n Heard - Apr,
1998 Issue (page 3)
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SUMMIT ACHIEVEMENT SUMMER PROGRAMS
Summit Achievement, in Fryeburg, Maine, 800-997-8664, has just about completed their second year of successful operation of year round
outdoor adventure programs. Director of Admissions Candi Mays announced their summer programs this year will include a 6-week backpacking
and climbing course for boys ages 13 to 17, June 21 to August 1, a 6-week backpacking and climbing course for girls ages 13 to 17,
June 28 to August 8, and a late summer flexible transitional program for students needing preparation for reentry into school.
NORTHSTAR ACADEMIC RESOURCE CENTER
The NorthStar Center, Inc., in Bend, Oregon, 541-385-8657, announced the opening of The NorthStar Academic Resource Center for September
1998. The Center is “An educational center providing tutorial and counseling support,” and focuses on academic support for students
continuing at the local community college, and is included in the optional second year for NorthStar graduates.
SUMMIT LODGE AT NORTHWEST ACADEMY
Northwest Academy, one of the CEDU Family of Services located in North Idaho, officially opened their new 17,000 square foot “Summit”
Lodge on St. Patrick’s Day, at 4 pm. It includes a dining hall and fully outfitted kitchen, office space, classrooms and tutoring
rooms, computer lab, science lab, drama workshop, pottery studio and a library.
SINGLE GENDER GROUPS A SUCCESS
Based on experience and research, Aspen Achievement Academy, a wilderness program based in Loa, Utah, 800-283-8334, has “shifted from
all coed groups to primarily single gender groups.” Aspen still maintains some coed groups, and the placement whether to place a child
in a single gender group or coed group is made on a case-by-case basis. Factors contributing to this shift to largely single sex groups
include “clinical, emotional, physical, and safety factors.”
ASPEN YOUTH OUTCOME QUESTIONNAIRE (YOQ)
Cheryl Kehl, Clinical Director at Aspen Ranch and Aspen Achievement Academy, 801-836-2472, has been administering YOQ since 1996 to
evaluate the efficacy of the Aspen programs. YOQ is given at “intake and during regular intevals to track the progress of a student.
It provides feedback to professional clinicians and educational consultants as well as providing a basis for outcome research in wilderness
programs. This outcome research will serve to provide an empirical foundation for wilderness therapy equivalent to other traditional,
established treatment modalities.”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE SERIES ON VALUES
Jeanette Spires, an Educational Consultant in Lake Forest, Illinois, 708-234-7211, alerted me to an excellent series of columns by
Eric Zorn in the Chicago Tribune the week of April 5 regarding Children and Values. In it, he says, “A kid who grows up without a
good moral education is disadvantaged, too, just like a kid who grows up poor, who gets lousy medical care, who attends shabby schools
and lives in run-down, dangerous housing, who is emotionally and physically abused. He is also entitled to an extra measure of compassion
when and if he goes wrong early in adolescence.”
FOR-PROFIT EDUCATION GREW 23% IN 1997
Education Week, March 4, 1998, p. 7 reported a study by EduVentures Inc. that found, among other things, that “the overall for-profit
education industry grew more than 23 percent in 1997, reaching $64 billion in revenue. EduVenture’s definition of the industry includes
educational publishing, school supplies, for-profit child care, supplemental learning services, corporate training, and 1-12 school
management.”
BLACKWATER OUTDOOR EXPERIENCES
George M. Bright M.D., Medical Director for Blackwater Outdoor Experiences, 804-794-8900,
e-mail: blackwater@blackwateroutdoor-ahc.com, announced the schedule for
their 10, 14 and 22 Day Therapeutic Expeditions. Included are a May parent retreat in the US Virgin Islands, June trips in West Virginia,
July trips in West Virginia, August trips to Tanzania Africa, Colorado and West Virginia, a September trip to West Virginia, a November
trip to SE Arizona, and a December trip to West Virginia.
CATHERINE FREER WHITEWATER CAMP
Brooke Anderson, Camp Program Director for the Catherine Freer Whitewater Camp, Albany, Oregon, 541-926-7252, e-mail: cfwte@proaxis.com,
announced six sessions this summer of their “summer whitewater camp for adolescents who are not in need of the intense clinical intervention
provided in our regular program. The camp works with “adolescents, ages 13 to 17 coping with low self-esteem, working below school
potential, having some family problems, suffering from minor depression, ADHD, or other learning disabilities, and not requiring the
intense therapy we offer in our regular wilderness therapy program.” It is designed as “an empowering adventure that will boost self-esteem,
encourage teamwork, and develop social as well as outdoor living skills.”
Copyright © 1998, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
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