Changes And New Additions At Crossroads Academy

We hope the holidays have been good for you and hope that you have a wonderful new year.

Crossroads Academy has now been around for over 4 years-it's crazy how fast time goes! Recently, we have made a few changes. We have purchased a new home that will house 12 students. Our original house (that held 15 students) will now house 8, and we still have the other home with 8 beds as well. So, now we have 3 homes with a total of 28 beds, and our transition home that can accommodate up to 4 young adults. And as a reminder, we are able to take students that are 18.

With the addition of the new house, we have hired Jason Dalton as a primary therapist. We are super excited to have him as a part of our team. Jason has been working with adolescents for over a decade. His most recent employment was as a wilderness therapist at Second Nature for the past six years. Prior to that, he worked at Logan River Academy. Jason is a perfect fit for our team and our model. We love how enthusiastic he is and how easily he is able to build a strong relationship with his students. Also, we are excited to have a therapist who is an awesome skier, so that all of you consultants don't think that we're just a bunch of boarders!

While we have added a total of 5 new beds to the program, we have actually decreased the amount of kids in the original home. This is because we continue to love the small number of students in a home which allows us the flexibility to truly individualize a program for a student. Here are some examples of what we have been able to do: students have played on high school tennis and lacrosse teams; students have played on club soccer, rowing, and skiing teams. We even had one student on a luge team in Park City, and we currently have a student playing on Weber State University's Ice Hockey team! So while we continue to go to the ski resort a few times a week in winter and the lake in the summer, we offer additional opportunities for student to pursue healthy recreational activities.

The last change we have made recently is to our education program. We continue to use the fully accredited private school, Northridge Learning Center, to help students get caught up in school and boost their GPA's. For the students that aren't behind, we have followed the advice of a couple of you education consultants who recommended that we use the fully accredited online school, Park City Independent. This has been working very well for some of our boys-especially the younger ones. We can also do a combination of the two programs. Our education program has allowed us to help the juniors and seniors coming in to get their schooling finished and start college early. This winter semester we will have at least 7 students attending Weber State University while still in the middle of our program.

It's been an amazing four years. We look forward to many more to come working with the boys and each of you. Thanks for your support. If you are not yet familiar with Crossroads Academy, please feel free to call Sam Dahlin. Also, we would love to have you tour our school at anytime. We will be attending NATSAP in Orlando, so if you would like to set up some time to meet, you can call or email Sam.

P.S: Fuel TV was out filming the Dew Tour a few months ago, and decided they wanted to do a segment on our school. Here is a link: http://crossroadsrtc.com/index.php?o=program_overview

Crossroads Academy is a therapeutic boarding school for young men ages 16 -18 years old who have experienced substance abuse with diagnoses of oppositional defiant disorder, mood disorders and ADHD and learning disorders. With the focus on family, integrity, work and play, students learn and experience important values in order to choose a different path that will lead to happiness and individual success.