SavingTeens Awards Their First Thomas E. Bratter Scholarship

SavingTeens is pleased to announce our first Thomas E. Bratter Scholar. Though a scholarship from John Dewey Academy (JDA) and the generous support of SavingTeens donors, we were able to help this young woman enroll at JDA and take the first step towards wellness that will lead to high school graduation and college matriculation.

Her aunt and uncle, who served as her guardians until she turned 18, took in the student, orphaned during high school. Struggling with adolescence and the death of her parents, she was rapidly traveling down the wrong path. After years of attempts to help her with more conventional (but ultimately unhelpful) interventions, her guardians reached out to SavingTeens for their support. Even with a generous scholarship awarded by JDA and continued generous support from her extended family, a gap remained. The SavingTeens' Thomas E. Bratter Scholarship Fund was able to help close this gap.

In 2014, Saving Teens in Crisis Collaborative (SavingTeens) established the Thomas E. Bratter Scholarship Fund, a fund initially financed by a donation from a charitable organization formed by friends, family and alumni of the John Dewey Academy. The Bratter Scholarship Fund, administered by SavingTeens, focuses on supporting bright but troubled teens to attend top college preparatory therapeutic boarding schools with a strong emphasis on quality academics and a track record of sending their typical graduates to quality four year colleges.

To learn more about SavingTeens, or to donate the any of our funds, please visit: www.savingteens.org

About John Dewey Academy
The John Dewey Academy provides an individualized and comprehensive education in a non-traditional therapeutic boarding school setting. Students are bright, troubled adolescents with a history of self-defeating or self-destructive choices. The peer-based approach leads students to high levels of achievement and inspires them to develop in ways that promote self-respect, maturity, and respect for others. 100% of Dewey graduates matriculate at excellent four year colleges, and have for the thirty year history of the school.

About SavingTeens
Saving Teens In Crisis Collaborative is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 2004 to assist troubled teens and their families struggling with substance abuse and other emotional issues.