Boulder Creek Academy
Bonners Ferry, ID

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Boulder Creek Academy Announces
Launch of New Canine Program

We are pleased to announce that Boulder Creek Academy is going to the dogs. A number of animal shelter dogs are residing on our campus learning new tricks, teaching our students new tricks, and then being adopted back into the community.

Boulder Creek Academy is collaborating with Pawsitive Works, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping youth through shelter dog training, whose comprehensive curriculum we have implemented as an academic course. Students are fully immersing themselves in the socialization, care, training and exercising of the shelter dogs. They are using the "clicker" training method, which is an evidence-based system that relies completely on positive feedback. In addition, students are assisting in the process of helping the dogs find a forever home.

Housed in our new kennel, the dogs are benefitting from our students teaching them new tricks, such as how to sit, stay, and walk on a leash. The dogs, in turn are teaching our students important lessons regarding patience, responsibility, accountability and more.

In addition to the shelter dog rehabilitation program, Boulder Creek Academy students' benefit from therapeutic horseback riding and taking care of a number of animals housed on campus including pigs, calves, and chickens. Animals are part of an educational and therapeutic strategy that helps students develop important social and emotional skills as they work collaboratively to care for the animals. Learn more at bouldercreekacademy.com or call 877-348-0848.

Boulder Creek Academy has spent more than two-decades focused on meeting the unique needs of adolescents ages 13 to 18, whose needs aren't being met in a traditional school, rediscover their academic and social confidence. Boulder Creek Academy students are clinically complex and socially immature and are challenged with unevenly developed cognitive skills, self-regulation issues, and struggle with forming relationships. The academy features a state-approved special education program, therapeutic learning, academic remediation, a therapeutic animal program, and socialization skill building. The campus is situated on 180-acres at the base of the Cabinet Mountains in northern Idaho. Students are accepted for enrollment year-round.