Ponca Pines Academy
Omaha, NE

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Ponca Pines Academy
To Close On June 30, 2012

After four years in operation, Ponca Pines Academy, (a therapeutic boarding school for young women ages 16-19 located in Omaha, Nebraska), will be closing it's doors as it's campus becomes unavailable for occupancy at the end of June.

Following the closure of its non-profit parent company, Uta Halee Girls Village, in December 2011, Ponca Pines Academy remained open and was allowed to continue to provide services on a portion of the non-profit campus while locating and purchasing a new campus. After five months of negotiations, attempts to purchase their current campus have ended without success.

Executive Director, Betsy Jacobson-Warren, stated that lack of a facility and not lack of support, or financial issues was the cause of the closure of the program. Warren hopes to locate a facility and re-open the program under a new name, and in a new location.