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« on: July 23, 2006, 03:04:54 PM »
Anyone know anything about this place? Thoughts....comments...all appericated.
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New Leaf Academy
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2006, 06:51:23 AM »
Does anyone konw anything at all about this school?
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2006, 09:35:14 PM »
Its director is Craig Christensen. Does anyone know of him?
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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2006, 08:56:36 PM »
NLA was aquired by aspen in around 2000 Prior to this it's Oregon Campus was called Green Ridge. Does anyone know anything about a  Green Ridge school which ran in the late 90s?
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« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2006, 03:38:17 AM »
There is an old article on a school run by a woman called bobbi Christensen from Oregon called crater lake school. It closed due to licencing issues. According to this, the woman had previously operated a camp under her maiden name Bobbi Trott & had been forced to close it because of the drowning deaths of 4 students in a lake.

She was also on the inaugural board of NATSAP. Does anyone know if she is connected to Craig Christensen?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/155 ... sed02.html
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« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2006, 02:28:49 AM »
I have an acquaintance whose daughter has attended for 18 months. Background: daughter is caught in an ugly custody dispute and custodial parent sent her to New Leaf (North Carolina). Pros: small classes, excellent field trips and good extra-curricular opportunities. Example: The girl has participated in running competitions, gone tubing and skiing, learned to play chess, gone to visit Duke University.  Cons: very limited parental access for at least the first year. No home visits, limited phone calls. letters written to the girl are opened and reviewed before she can read them.  Her letters are reviewed before she sends. All phone calls monitored. Little emphasis on family therapy and no confidentiality.
Much of what this girls says in therapy is fodder for the courts.
Anyway, for what it's worth.
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« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2006, 03:06:58 AM »
Thank you. This is worth a lot. It says a lot. You mentioned not much contact for the 1st yr and dodgy therapy. Do u know what the therapy consists of? Given the young age of the girls does the NC branch allow people to escort their kids?
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« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2006, 07:45:29 AM »
The homepage stated:

"The staff at New Leaf Academy private girls school carefully and individually screens each candidate and her parents for admission through a series of interviews and assessment tools."

How does it work? Does the parents have to show the contents of their wallets?
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2007, 01:06:13 PM »
To add to my post of December 24 and to answer some questions.
No I do not know anything more about daily therapy at the school other than what the web site contains.  I only know that my aquaintance (who is the non-custodial parent of the student) is not allowed to be involved in any face-to-face therapy with her child and a therapist.  Instead my friend is only allowed a ten-minute conversation with her child per week. The counselors are pressuring the child to make these phone conversations (which are monitored and recorded) "structured". That is, they require the child to ask my friend "therapeutic" questions. If the parent does not want to respond to these questions, the child and the counselor at New Leaf terminate the call.  All discussions between my friend and the child are turned over to the custodial parent for use in an on-going custody/visitation dispute.
   In the end what has New Leaf accomplished with this child? Before the student entered New Leaf she was hostile to the custodial parent and loving toward the non-custodial parent.  Now she is openly hostile and contemptuous of the non-custodial parent.  I do not know what her relationship is with the custodial parent.  So, is the situation better? Who knows??
     As for screening the parent and child, yes absolutely.  The parent(s) must be able to pay.  And New Leaf at North Carolina will not address children with severe emotional or behavoiral problems.
They do not want children who have abused drugs or alcohol, been runaways, are sexually promiscuous, have been violent or suicidal, or have children with severe learning or emotional disabilities.  They do not have the expertise to deal with these problems.
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2007, 05:30:53 PM »
Can either parent visit?
Can the kid write to wider relatives?
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2007, 10:12:44 PM »
No, visits are strictly limited.  The child must go through therapeutic steps.  As she makes progress through the steps, she is rewarded with more parental access (to her custodial parent). She has virtually no contact with the non-custodial parent.
     As for letters, the child can only receive letters from and send letters to people on a pre-approved list.  All letters written or received by the child may be opened and scrutinized by the staff at New Leaf first.  The staff may opt to withhold letters from the child or not send letters she has written.
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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2007, 11:16:56 AM »
Quote from: ""Guest""
To add to my post of December 24 and to answer some questions.
No I do not know anything more about daily therapy at the school other than what the web site contains.  I only know that my aquaintance (who is the non-custodial parent of the student) is not allowed to be involved in any face-to-face therapy with her child and a therapist.  Instead my friend is only allowed a ten-minute conversation with her child per week. The counselors are pressuring the child to make these phone conversations (which are monitored and recorded) "structured". That is, they require the child to ask my friend "therapeutic" questions. If the parent does not want to respond to these questions, the child and the counselor at New Leaf terminate the call.  All discussions between my friend and the child are turned over to the custodial parent for use in an on-going custody/visitation dispute.
   In the end what has New Leaf accomplished with this child? Before the student entered New Leaf she was hostile to the custodial parent and loving toward the non-custodial parent.  Now she is openly hostile and contemptuous of the non-custodial parent.  I do not know what her relationship is with the custodial parent.  So, is the situation better? Who knows??
     As for screening the parent and child, yes absolutely.  The parent(s) must be able to pay.  And New Leaf at North Carolina will not address children with severe emotional or behavoiral problems.
They do not want children who have abused drugs or alcohol, been runaways, are sexually promiscuous, have been violent or suicidal, or have children with severe learning or emotional disabilities.  They do not have the expertise to deal with these problems.


I see no reason for this place to be in business.  What exactly are they doing there?  It seems the only "expertise" they possess is in dealing with kids that don't have any problems.  

Go figure.
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A can see the reason
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2007, 03:57:30 PM »
Being workrelated involved in some nasty divorces, I can see a reason for such a facility in a society that default don't grant shared custody.

It is so bad and so damaging for the child to enforce any kind of feelings toward the former partner. Children should not be used a weapon when one partner wants to her the other.

I think that I want to refer the academy as a kind of divorce tool. There is absolutely no reason for isolating a child for such a long period, if they only want to fix minor problems.
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« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2007, 01:21:29 PM »
I definitely think that this school is not appropriate for children who are learning disabled.  I do not think they have the expertise to teach learning-disabled children with the appropriate curriculum (such as Lindamood-Bell, Orton-Gillingham, multi-sensory techniques for learning).  New Leaf is a behavoir modification program with parental/home access as the carrot and stick.  If the heart of your child's difficulties is a diagnosed learning disability, then there are far better schools out there for the same amount of money. For example, Brehm Academy in Illinois is an excellent boarding school.  It has a regular academic year schedule where the kids go home for Thanksgiving, Christmas holiday, Easter and a three month summer break.  The emphasis at Brehm is on high quality education taught in a way that has had proven success for learning-disabled children.  Although they have therapists on staff, they do not deny parental access in any way.
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« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2007, 03:45:12 AM »
Here is a site devoted to learning difficulties where a bunch of New Leaf old girls have posted.

Anyone know about this site
http://www.ldresources.org/?p=969
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