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Flagship Treatment
Facility Closed
The Drug Policy Letter
June/July 1993, reports the "flagship treatment facility and
its corporate headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida"
of Straight Inc. was closed on April 24 of this year. The
program has been controversial for several years for its "confrontational
treatment model."
Troubled Transplants
Workshop
Dr. Richard Delaney, Director of the Northern Colorado Diagnostic
Service presented
in early September a workshop entitled "Troubled Transplants:
Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster and
Adoptive Children" at Desert Hills Center for Youth &
Families in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Delaney is the author of
FOSTERING CHANGES: Treating Attachment Disordered Foster Children
and TROUBLED TRANSPLANTS: Unconventional Strategies for Helping
Disturbed Foster and Adopted Children.
The Heritage Center
Expands Services
The Heritage Center in Utah has expanded its service toward
the adolescent deaf population. They offer 60 beds for males
and females between the ages of 12 to 18 in their self-contained
deaf program. In their total program, they see that the most
important element in treatment is relationships, and emphasize
conservative family values.
New Admissions Counselor
At Rocky Mountain Academy
Lori Armbruster is
the newest Admissions Counselor at Rocky Mountain Academy
in North Idaho.
Buckeye Boys Ranch
Has Two Interns This Summer
Buckeye Boys Ranch In Grove City, Ohio had two interns this
summer from Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., the world's
only accredited, four-year liberal arts college for deaf students.
The two students were helping out the deaf and hearing impaired
adolescents enrolled the a summer school program held in the
Ranch's Intensive Care Center.
Desert Hills Sponsors
Public Program
Desert Hills in Tucson, Arizona
will sponsor Dr. Benjamin M. Spock, in presenting a public
program in Tucson about "Stresses on the American Family"
October 12.
New Admission Director
At Fenster School
Ms. Gwen Bonhard has been appointed Assistant Admission Director
for Fenster School outside Tucson, Arizona. Gwen has been
administrative assistant with the school for six years and
will be helping Director of Admission Mary Jo Filip.
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© 1992, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
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