GUARDIAN ANGELS FIND SUICIDE
(Feb. 29, 2000) A sad ending was the result of an early spring request for Tim Smith and his Guardian Angel Youth Services, a transport program based in Bend, Oregon, 541-923-4968. A boy’s mother hired Guardian Angel to find to find her runaway son from Austin, Texas, who had been missing for four months. Searches by two police departments had failed to find any trace of the boy. After gathering all the facts they could, and acting on a hunch, Smith searched the cliffs near where the boy’s car had been found on the banks of a lake and in 14 hours found the body of the missing boy.

KEITH RUSSELL IS FIRST TIME FATHER
(April 25, 2000) Keith Russell, Ph.D., Coordinator of the Wilderness Research Center at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 208-885-2269, is getting his full share of babysitting duty with his new daughter Alena McKenzie Russell, born April 25, 2000.

IN MEMORY OF JEAN GARDEN
(May 30, 2000) It is with sadness that we received notice from Dick Garten that well-known Education Consultant Jean Peters Garten passed away on May 21, 2000. In lieu of remembrances, memorial gifts may be made to the Hospice of Martin County, 2030 SE Ocean Boulevard, Stuart, Florida, 34996.

CHRISTINE HAGGERTY ON TEMPORARY LEAVE
(May 30, 2000) Christine Haggerty, Admissions Director for Cedar Ridge Residential Treatment Center, Roosevelt, Utah, 435-353-4498, announced she is temporarily turning admissions over to school director Pam Nielson, due her desire to be with her new baby.

LOGAN RIVER ACADEMY OPENING
(May 31, 2000) Larry Carter CEO of the newly formed Logan River Academy, at Logan, Utah, 435-755-8400, announced the establishment of this new Residential Treatment Center, scheduled to open August 1st. They are aiming to enroll at-risk youth between the ages of 12 and 17, and are anticipating 80 beds on their 7-acre campus. They are working on Licenses and Accreditations from JCAHO, the State of Utah and the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges.

CAROLYN KOCUREK EXPANDS PRACTICE
(June 1, 2000) Educational Consultant Carolyn Kocurek, 512-306-8567, Austin, Texas, announced both her new phone number and a new partner, Dr. Michael M. Cole, who is a clinical psychologist who will also be acting as an educational consultant. Cole had been with the Brown Schools for 15 years.

FIRE MISSED BRUSH RANCH SCHOOL
(June 2, 2000) Gary Emmons, Headmaster of Brush Ranch School, Tererro, New Mexico, 505-757-6114, reported that despite the school having to evacuate during the threat of the recent New Mexico forest fires, the campus was relatively untouched. His letter also stated that they found they were well prepared for this emergency.

EDUCATION INDUSTRY GROWING
(June 5, 2000) Eduventures, a firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, reports in their e-mail newsletter that the private education industry is continuing its rapid growth reaching $98.5 billion in revenues in 1999.

ROYAL HAVEN FOUNDERS ARRESTED
(June 7, 2000) Steve Gage and Karen Lee-Gage, Founders of Royal Haven, Sisters, Oregon, a residential home for at-risk girls nationwide, were arrested Friday afternoon on 45 felony counts including rape, sexual abuse, and criminal mistreatment. The program had been closed down by the Gages last December shortly before the first accusations had surfaced.

CEDAR RIDGE OUTDOOR COMPONENT
(June 8, 2000) Robert Nielson, Director of the Cedar Ridge Residential Treatment Program, Roosevelt Utah, 801-353-4498, announced they are offering an Outdoor “component for students they determine would benefit from a wilderness experience after enrolling in their program. This program is designed to more quickly break down defenses and cycles in the student, offering a “jump start” to therapeutic/behavioral progress and allowing for more intense interaction and behavior modification. While similar to a full wilderness experience, it differs in that students sleep indoors and their meals are provided by the home.”

GLACIER MOUNTAIN SEPARATES
(June 8, 2000) Larry Bauer, Director of Glacier Mountain Academy (GMA), Sandpoint, Idaho, announced that as of January 1, 2000, GMA became a totally separate entity from Glacier Mountain Educational Services (formerly known as Glacier Mountain Expeditions), which is headed by John Baisden. Bauer and Baisden had formed a partnership a few years ago, which has now been dissolved as a result of this action. Ramona and Matt Slover are managers and house parents of the GMA program, with Jack Evensizer, the accredited teacher.

WOODBURY REPORTS LISTED ON WEBS MOST LINKED.COM
(June 12, 2000) Woodbury Reports was notified that based on popularity, its web site had been selected to be included on their global popularity rank listing.

ANASAZI IDAHO BOARDING SCHOOL
(June 12, 2000) Ezekiel C. Sanchez, President and Chairman of the Anasazi Foundation, Mesa, Arizona, 480-892-7403, announced they will be launching a boarding school near Twin Falls, Idaho. They hope to start enrolling students on July 13, 2000 at what they call the Anasazi Shoshone Pueblo at Magic Hot Springs, designed to serve young men ages 12-17 years of age. Anasazi has operated a very successful and popular short-term wilderness program in Arizona for many years. They also are continuing a capital campaign to raise funds for a Boarding School for girls in Arizona.

INTERNET’S SNAP DIRECTORY SELECTS STRUGGLINGTEENS.COM
(June 12, 2000) The Snap Internet Search Engine announced that StrugglingTeens.com, published by Woodbury Reports, has been selected as one of the most popular LiveDirectory sites in their database and has promoted it to the Snap’s Premium Directory. The site was “independently reviewed by one of our editors and placed where it will be available both in the Top Web Sites section of search results and in our topic-based directory of Web listings.”

CULOTTA & PETREY APPOINTED AT CASCADE
(June 14, 2000) Michael Allgood, founder and Executive Director of Cascade School, Whitmore, California, 530-472-3031, announced Jack Culotta has been appointed the new headmaster, and that Genelle Petrey-Boeggeman will be returning to the Cascade School Admissions Department. [This article is outdated. Cascade School closed January 20, 2004.]

CEO WITH AT-RISK YOUTH LOOKING
(June 15, 2000) A licensed and experienced attorney with two years of successful experience as Chief Executive Officer for a private-pay program for at-risk adolescents, is looking for a management position. For further information, contact Lon Woodbury at Woodbury Reports Inc., 208-267-5550.

OPENINGS AT WHITELEY MEADOWS
(June 16, 2000) Claudia Whiteley and Phil Jones, Whiteley Meadows, Clark Fork, Idaho, 208-266-1672, announced they still have summer openings for boys ages 8 to 14 in their north Idaho working farm. They work with boys that need a stable, fun time in a safe and nurturing environment, screening out boys with severe emotional/behavioral problems. The boys enrolled will have opportunities to associate with horses, sheep, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats and will have plenty of time for fishing and swimming. Whiteley Meadows also has openings for their year-round program where residents attend either public school or have home schooling, depending on their needs.

OPENINGS AT ST. PAUL’S ACADEMY
(June 16, 2000) Dave Johnson, Director of Admission at St. Paul’s Academy, Phoenix, Arizona, 602-956-9090, announced they still have openings for their second summer session starting July 17th, and have several openings for the next academic year. St. Paul’s Academy is a College Prep Boarding and Day School with a strong personal growth component.

RED ROCK CANYON SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
(June 16, 2000) Todd Hockenbury, admissions for Red Rock Canyon School in St. George, Utah, 800-635-4441, reported an enrollment of 50 students. The school is a Treatment Center that started enrolling students in November 1999.

SUNRISE ACADEMY OPENING
(June 16, 2000) Jeff Jeppsen, 435-257-1194, announced his new program, Sunrise Academy, will begin operation July 15th, with the wilderness component of their program being coordinated by their new staff member Shane Gallagher, who was formerly with Anasazi Foundation.

COTT HESS TO LEAVE ASPEN RANCH
(June 16, 2000) Scott Hess, Clinical director for Aspen Ranch, Loa, Utah, 435-836-2080, announced he has accepted a professional opportunity that will require him to leave the ranch. Hess has been with the ranch for a year and a half.

KING GEORGE SCHOOL GRADUATION
(June 18, 2000) Rebecca Plona, Director of Admissions for King George School, Sutton Vermont, 800-218-5122, announced their six member class of year 2000 are graduating from the school.

ANOTHER COOPER JOINS WOLFEBORO CAMP SCHOOL STAFF
(June 20, 2000) Wolfeboro Camp School, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, 603-569-3451, announced Edward A. Cooper has been appointed Assistant Head of School. Edward joins his father William A. Cooper, who is Head of the school. Wolfeboro is a Summer Boarding School that has been in operation since 1910.

CAROLYN WOLF TRAVELS THROUGH TOWN
(June 19, 2000) Carolyn Wolf, one of the founders and owners of Second Nature, a Clinical wilderness intervention program, Duchesne, Utah, 818-906-7611, was in Bonners Ferry visiting old friends and co-workers from the days when she was on staff at Rocky Mountain Academy, whose campus is a few miles from town.

1998 ARCHIVES ONLINE
(June 21, 2000) Woodbury Reports Online archives now includes all issues up to 1998. The Archives include all articles published from November 1989 through the last issue printed in 1998. It can be accessed by going to Strugglingteens.com, then going to the newsletter archive link.

DENNIS CROWELL RESIGNS
(June 21, 2000) Dennis Crowell, Founder and Director of NorthStar Center, Bend, Oregon, 541-385-8657, a transition program for young people ages 18 and older, announced his resignation as Executive Director effective July 28th, 2000. NorthStar Center was bought by Aspen Youth Services about two years ago and has begun the process of finding a new Executive Director.

PARADISE COVE WITHDRAWS FROM WWASP
(June 22, 2000) As of June 1, 2000 Paradise Cove is no longer a WWASP Program. The owners have decided to work as a short-term program for boys, which serves a different niche than the WWASP Programs that are long term residential programs. Paradise Cove has been part of the controversy involving behavioral and off-shore programs, that has plagued all the WWASP/Teen Help programs during the past few years.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL AWARD
(June 23, 2000) Emanuel Pariser, Director of The Community School, in Camden, Maine, 207-236-3000, announced they have received the outstanding rural program award from the National Rural Institute on Drug and Alcohol Abuse.

KING GEORGE STAFF TO STAY
(June 26, 2000) In a Press Release, Admissions Director Rebecca Plona, King George School, Sutton Vermont, 978-922-3388, announced the Brown Schools, headquartered in Austin, Texas, and owner of King George School, had not accepted the resignations of Linda Houghton, Rebecca Plona, Jane Hamilton and Nathan Boston, which had been submitted a few days before. The release asserted all issues had been resolved to the satisfaction of everyone involved. It also stated that Linda Houghton will stay on as head of the school, while beginning to shift her emphasis to the Institute of Emotional Growth, training people to become emotional growth educators. A transition will be made to find a successor to the role of CEO of North American Boarding Schools over the next three to four months, a position Houghton has held since the founding of King George School and the North American Boarding Schools as a division of Brown Schools.

ROYAL HAVEN FOUNDERS FACE MORE CHARGES
(June 26, 2000) The Oregon Nugget News, reported Steve & Karen Gage, Founders of Royal Haven, a residential home for at-risk girls, were arraigned on 22 additional counts of sex abuse and criminal mistreatment, bringing the total charges to 67.

TEACHERS WANT CHOICES TOO
(June 26, 2000) Senn Brown, 608-238-7491, a member of the Association of Educators in Private Practice (AEPP) and Project Director of Teachers Want Choices Too announced a meeting in October for educators and policy leaders at the Johnson Foundation’s Wingspread conference center, when they will act on a Teachers Want Choices Too policy statement and a strategic plan.

CONNIE COCHRAN TO LEAVE
(June 26, 2000) Connie Cochran, Director of Admissions for Three Springs of Duck River and LEAPS, Centerville, Tennessee, 931-729-5040, announced she will be marrying on June 30th and both of them have accepted a ministry position to work with youth and families in LaCygne, Kansas. Rob Moore will be taking over as Director of Admissions. Moore has been with Three Springs for the past five years. Brenda Lampley will be staying on as Assistant in the Admissions office. As Cochran said in her announcement, “I am saddened to say “Goodbye” but I have thoroughly enjoyed working with you. Thank you again for all of your support and assistance in working with these children and their families.”

EDUVENTURES-2000 CONFERENCE
(June 26, 2000) The Association of Educators in Private Practice (AEPP) will have its annual conference in Detroit, Michigan, July 27-29, 2000. The conference and the Association has a mission of promoting education reform through entrepreneurship, which includes tutors, learning centers, education investors, charter schools, trainers, consultants and any other person interested in fostering education reform. Conference sessions will cover a variety of education approaches including a session on Emotional Growth and Therapeutic Schools and Programs led by Educational Consultant Lon Woodbury and participants Rob Spear owner of Deliberate Directions in Sandpoint, Idaho, and Pat Johnson, admissions for Excel Academy in Houston, Texas. Elliot Sainer, of Aspen Youth Services in California, will lead another session, with participants Sue Crowell, of SUWS in Idaho, and Keith Russell, of Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research Cooperative, Idaho. Other sessions include Trends in the Education Market, Online Tutoring, Education Management Services, Community-based Education Service Companies, and School Financial and Performance Measures. More information can be obtained from Ex. Dir. Chris Yelich, 800-252-3280, Aepp.org.

STRUGGLINGTEENS.COM IN WALL STREET JOURNAL
(June 28, 2000) Strugglingteens.com was referred to in the Work & Family column written by Sue Shellenbarger for the Wall Street Journal, p. B1. Titled “Parents of Teenagers Demand, and Get, More Outside Support,” the column discussed the trend of parents to ask for and get support from other parents when they have rebellious teens. One of the resources she found parents were turning to was Woodbury Reports’ web site and included interviews of parents who had obtained information and support on the site's internet discussion board. The day the column appeared, the total visits to strugglingteens.com reached more than 2200 visits, almost 700 visits in one day higher than the previous high.

SEMESTER BACK WITH ALLDREDGE ACADEMY
(June 30, 2000) Glen Bender, admissions for Alldredge Academy, Davis, West Virginia, 877-253- 7334, announced that their 60-day Semester Back Program’s next enrollment will be July 11th, which will allow students to complete the program in time to begin the fall semester. The Semester Back program contains components of the Wilderness, Village and Family Workshop.

ANDREA FULLER LEAVES CRATER LAKE
(June 30, 2000) Director Andrea Fuller announced that she has accepted an exciting international opportunity that necessitates leaving Crater Lake School. Steve Long, who has worked with the program for a number of years will be the new director, and is looking for a second licensed therapist and a second accredited teacher.

DAN KRABACHER BECOMES NEW CEDU PRESIDENT AND CEO
(June 6, 2000) CEDU announced Dan Krabacher has joined CEDU Family of Services as president and CEO. Current interim president and CEO, Ann Knopf will become vice president of marketing and development for The Brown Schools Education Services Group. Krabacher is past director of program operations for Pacific Crest Outward Bound, where he operated five programs, delivering courses to 2,200 students annually and supervised 284 staff. In 1998 he received the Joshua Miner (Kurt Hahn) Award, for delivering exceptional challenge and growth experiences to thousands in Outward Bound programs nationwide.