The value of 'Certified Educational Planners'

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Basically the bottom line appears to be "How to sell better, nicer"... which has nothing to do with the product being sold.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2009
Woodbury Reports, Inc.
Bonners Ferry, Idaho

CEP Standards: The Focus Of NATSAP Panel On Standards And Ethics

Contact:
Lon Woodbury MA, CEP, IECA
Educational Consultant
208-267-5550
http://www.strugglingteens.com

January 27, 2009

How "Ethics and High Standards Are Good for Schools and Programs for Struggling Teens" is the topic of a panel, at the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) Annual Conference in Austin, Texas, January 30, 2009. Chaired by Lon Woodbury, a Certified Educational Planner (CEP) and a commissioner of the American Institute of Certified Educational Planners (AICEP), he will be joined by fellow commissioners Patti Murphy, RN MPA, CEP of Maryland and Steven R. Antonoff, Ph.D. CEP of Colorado.

Titled: "Ethics and Standards: Good for Business," the discussion will focus on how a school or program improves its reputation and thus its competitive advantage when it surrounds itself with credentialed, well-trained and experienced professionals in general, including referral sources.

"When a school or program works with an educational consultant who has qualified for the Certified Educational Planner (CEP) designation," Woodbury said, "that school or program has bragging rights to their parents and prospective parents that they have emphasized quality even to the extent of preferring to work with educational consultants who have been evaluated by their professional peers of having the highest standards and ethics."

How the AICEP evaluates who deserves the CEP designation will be explained by Steven R. Antonoff Ph.D., who was one of the earliest founders of the Certification organization.

"To earn the CEP designation, a candidate must show proof of extensive experience and positive recommendations from colleagues," Antonoff explains, "as well as extensive professional knowledge and institutional knowledge that is above that of the average educational consultant."

For more information, contact Woodbury Reports, at 208-267-5550, http://www.strugglingteens.com and in their newsletter "Places for Struggling Teens"; in addition to a "pre-screened" Directory of those schools and programs with the best reputations among professional educational consultants, and personal consultations by experienced educational consultants.


Copyright © 2009, Woodbury Reports, Inc.

[Anonymous]

I am happy to see they are addressing this subject and starting to take more of a lead role in training.

[Anonymous]

KathyS is TheWho.

[Anonymous]

KathyS is TheWho.

Well, thank God!  He had a sex change!  I hope like hell they used a rusty scalpel to cut off his little whooter.  Is it preserved?  How much could we get in an auction for thewho's inconsequential weenus preserved like a toad in a jar?

[Anonymous]

How much could we get in an auction for thewho's inconsequential weenus preserved like a toad in a jar?

Don't drop it, otherwise you'll never find it again.

Back on topic, the value of a Certified Educational Planner is akin to that of a cheap whore. Only with the whore, at least you have some idea what you're getting and the worst that can happen to you is AIDS.

[Anonymous]

i wish i had the funds to enlist the help of an educational consultant.

[Anonymous]

i wish i had the funds to enlist the help of an educational consultant.

Martha,

For God sakes Martha why would you spend your hard earned dollars on a Ed Con???  You can use the money on a good therapist for YOU or for your SON...either way, you are better off.

To make a statement in a thread that you "would send your kid away just to spite everyone on here" is the most outrageous thing I have heard in a long time!  You might want to consider a "parenting class" along with therapy

[Anonymous]

i wish i had the funds to enlist the help of an educational consultant.

Martha,

For God sakes Martha why would you spend your hard earned dollars on a Ed Con???  You can use the money on a good therapist for YOU or for your SON...either way, you are better off.

To make a statement in a thread that you "would send your kid away just to spite everyone on here" is the most outrageous thing I have heard in a long time!  You might want to consider a "parenting class" along with therapy

I bet "Martha" is also TheWho. "She" provides the foil for introducing creative funding arrangements. WWASP has the CS Landre Foundation. Aspen has something somewhat similar: STICC.

[Anonymous]

i wish i had the funds to enlist the help of an educational consultant.

To make a statement in a thread that you "would send your kid away just to spite everyone on here" is the most outrageous thing I have heard in a long time!

That's responsible parenting, huh?  I imagine your kid is completely normal but you want to lock him down "just to spite" him.  Send Martha Mierda's "spite" post to that androgyne ass-clown, Lon Woodbury.   It's a fine example of the "parental choice" he wants to protect.  The carny freak Lon thinks every parent is sane, with their child's best interests at heart.  Well, here's your deal-breaker, Lon - Martha Mierda, sadist mom.  You see?  Having a kid doesn't mean you're a parent, and psychosis knows no age.  Parents like this keep Lon supplied with blood money and he returns the favor by protecting their right to abuse kids without professional interference.  Again - behold Martha.

Martha, if you keep up this infantile, shitty behavior, your kid may do something "just to spite" you that leaves you grieving, if you're capable of it.   For your kid's sake, get outpatient treatment for him and especially YOU.  If there is any problem with your kid, your postings indicate that you cause the lion's share of his troubles.  Deal with him as a human being and not a "thing" to lock up out of spite or when you get tired of playing mommy.  It's too late to regret having a kid, too late to wish you had kept your legs closed and your mouth shut.    

If you're a troll, you're doing a damn fine job - for Fornits.  What a perfect example of a deranged, egomaniacal parent vicitimizing a child for self-serving reasons, none of which help your kid.

[Anonymous]

Certified Educational Planners, like EVERYTHING ELSE associated with this industry, are not held accountable.  Lack of accountability usually leads to lack of positive results.

I have seen some signs of progress.  There is a statement from the FTC urging that parents be cautious in choosing to send their parent to these types of facilities because they are unregulated and unlicensed (as a CERTIFIED educational planners).  I'd like to see the industry start small and just agree on definitions as to terms and what a particular institution actually is.  Are you a:  treatment facility (implies a dr. there to oversee patients on a daily basis); an emotional growth boarding school (don't know what that euphemism means); a therapeutic boarding school?

Spring Ridge Academy in Arizona advertises itself as all three of those.  It holds a license from the Department of Behavioral Health as a Juvenile Group Home.  It NEVER calls itself a Juvenile Group Home, even though clearly that is what the state of Arizona thinks it is.

A concerned parent and teacher