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New Day Treatment Program
In Las Vegas, Nevada
Desert Hills Center for Youth & Families, headquartered
in Tucson, Arizona, opened a new Adolescent Day Treatment
Program in Las Vegas, Nevada last August. With an enrollment
limited to 20, it is designed to help young people ages 12-18
in transition to home and community from more intensive psychiatric
care programs. For more information, contact Jan Culver in
Nevada, 702-369-9960, or Tom Rose in Arizona at 602-622-5437.
Desert Hills now has facilities in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico
and Texas.
Valley View School
To Celebrate 25th Anniversary
Philip Bland, Associate Director of Valley View School in
North Brookfield, Massachusetts announces they are preparing
to celebrate 1995 as their 25th anniversary year. They started
the school year very strong in September with 39 students
out of a maximum of 42 students. The school has just completed
the total renovation of Doane House, a dormitory housing nine
boys, and are half-way through the completion of the building
of a quarter million dollar theatre and office complex adjacent
to the Dining Room. This will give them "a state-of-the-art
facility to further enhance our ability to develop our drama
program.
Echo Springs Announces
One Year Anniversary
Doug Kim- Brown reports ECHO SPRINGS Transition Study Center
in N. Idaho is "alive and well!" The two-phase program for
young adults focusing on life management skills and college
preparation is nearly full. October marks the One year anniversary
of the program. 208-265-0343.
Carolyn Wolf Is Working
With West Shield
Carolyn Wolf, formerly with the CEDU schools is now working
with West Shield Adolescent Services, headquartered in Southern
California. Carolyn is doing transports, and also is responsible
for helping with the marketing. She plans to be at the IECA
Conference in Boston this November to say hello to all her
old friends she has worked with in the past, and of course
to make new ones. She can be reached at 800-899-8585.
Rocky Top Reports On
Student Activities
Tom "Gregory" Finucane, of Rocky Top near Anaconda, Montana
tells of his students taking a day compiling and reading the
news for a Butte, Montana television station recently.
Consulting Service
Expands Business
Helen Denne, owner of Definitive Directions, a vocational
and educational resource consulting service in Glendale, California,
is expanding her business to include an "emphasis on educational
support services including school placement for all ages of
children and adults with a variety of needs." She can be reached
at 818-547-4772.
Pacific Northern Academy
To Open
Tom Croke, recently in Anchorage, Alaska reports plans are
well underway for Pacific Northern Academy to open September
19, 1996. Headmaster Jeff Woodworth has been in private education
and business in the Boston area. The new school will initially
include pre-primary through 10th grade, with the 11th and
12th grades and a boarding program added later on. For information,
contact Jeff at 907-274-2300.
Secret Harbor School
In Puget Sound
Brian Carroll, Secret Harbor School's clinical director, is
the interim Executive Director with the resignation of long
time executive director Bill Monahan. Secret Harbor is on
Cypress Island in Puget Sound near Anacortes, Washington.
Copyright
© 1994, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
without prior approval if the copyright notice and proper
publication and author attribution accompanies the copy.)
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