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Ursus:
Newswires
CRC SAME FACILITY GROWTH PLUNGES: 1% 2Q GROWTH VS 7% GROWTH IN 2007

- ATIN - 09/03/08 - Amid widespread talk of operational difficulties at the nation's largest treatment provider, as well as high-profile staff defections, CRC Health Corp.'s growth rate has fallen sharply this year, with very slow growth continuing into the second quarter, according to SEC filings.

After registering strong same facility growth - a key measure that strips out the effect on growth of CRC's numerous acquisitions - of over 8 percent year-over-year in 2006 and almost 7 percent in 2007, the same facility number plunged to just 1 percent in the March quarter, with the latest filings also showing 1 percent growth in 2Q and confirming the slowdown trend.

Driving the downturn appears to be, in retrospect, a very poorly timed late 2006 acquisition by CRC of therapeutic boarding schools leader Aspen Education, which has been hit by the credit crunch as parents are unable to access second mortgages and tuition loans to finance the huge cost of helping their children. CRC has admited it has had major difficulty filling beds at one school in particular - likely Excel Academy in Texas - since the fall of 2007.

Same facility growth in the CRC's Youth Division - Aspen Education - has been falling at more than 10 percent all year. And some are wondering whether problems may be on the horizon for the well performing Recovery Division - treatment centers and the main cash cow methadone dispensing - as key players defect. Sierra Tucson CEO Keith Arnold left in July to work for CRC's arch mergers and acquisitions competitor Subacute Holdings.

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Anonymous:
Think we're having an impact?

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Guest" ---Think we're having an impact?
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Dunno... I think parents just can't afford it at the moment, given a reduced ability to borrow against the future... We might have the ability to make an impact now, as they try to rationalize their choices.

Either that, or "Claudette's Jamaican jerk chicken and twice baked potatoes" at Excel Academy just aren't enough of a draw to offset the rest of the exciting 12-step fare!  
 ;D


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EXCEL Academy of Texas
Conroe, TX

Recovery Month At Excel Academy Texas

Contact:
Don Vardell
Executive Director
800-260-9178
http://www.excelacademy.com

August 13, 2008

EXCEL Academy of Texas, the Sober Academy within the Youth Treatment Division of CRC Health Group will host a variety of activities, events and programming to celebrate Recovery Month 2008. On September 10th our normal 8am -3pm academic class schedule will be adjusted to accommodate a whole host of educational sessions, guest speakers, fun activities, 12 step meetings and events to support the company wide efforts to focus on recovery from substance abuse.

Beginning in the morning, students, staff and invited guests from the local community will be treated to an extra special breakfast buffet artfully prepared by Claudette Reid and her culinary team. No doubt Claudette's Jamaican heritage will come through and we have pleaded with her to make her soon-to-be famous bread pudding (a favorite of Executive Director Don Vardell). After breakfast our official program will begin with a guest speaker who has been in recovery for 38 years. Mr. Bob will share his experiences and uplifting, funny stories to help set the tone for the day. Immediately following that, students will move to assigned classrooms in our academic center where the EXCEL Academy teaching staff will facilitate a recovery knowledge competition between groups of students who will answer questions as a team from books such as "Getting Started in AA". Teams will be awarded prizes after lunch for the number of questions answered correctly. Prizes include off-campus dinners, pizza parties, and movie rentals to watch on weekends on our big screen TV in the "Lodge".

At noon, students, staff and guests will form a large circle in the center of our beautifully landscaped campus and participate in a simultaneous release of environmentally friendly balloons along with over 100 other CRC and Aspen Education Group programs. A Texas style BBQ lunch will immediately follow where again students, staff and guests will be treated to specialties including Claudette's Jamaican jerk chicken and twice baked potatoes among other local favorites.

The afternoon will consist of 12 step activities and meetings and a young person speaker at the end of the day. We know this will be a special day to enhance the focus on recovery from drugs and alcohol and support the efforts of EXCEL Academy students in their quest for sobriety.

EXCEL Academy of Texas is the only Sober Academy in the Aspen Education or Youth Treatment Division of CRC Health Group serving co-ed adolescents in the 9th through 12th grades. As such, we offer an unmatched program design consisting of full time, traditional teacher led college preparatory academics, daily 12 step meetings, weekly off-campus AA/NA meeting attendance, adolescent focused 12 step activities and meetings on and off campus, weekly group and individual counseling by licensed therapists, family seminars and sober fun activities. Students remain with EXCEL from one trimester (4 months) to a full year and longer and each academic and recovery focused plan is individualized based on the student and family's needs. For more information and current tuition rates, go to http://www.excelacademy.com or call 800-260-9178.
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dishdutyfugitive:
These large corporations always make the same mistake.

Overhype themselves.
Overbuild
Overstaff
Overeverything....

And then when shit hits the fan like right now, you can be sure all the CRC department heads point fingers at other department heads, talk shit and undermine eachother in a determined effort to cover their own ass.


It all comes down to their incongruent business model. They're so far removed from the actual problem, the real solution, their employees and their clients that they're destined to make the original problem worse.

Look at Brown schools / CEDU. (not that cedu wasn't already a fucked up place).

These huge corporations dable in plenty of different industries that they have no business being in. They know themselves it's bassackwards but they just can't resist the profit margins.

I'd sooner send my priest to the porno store to pick up Latina Jug Fest 18 then have a large corporation try to effect 'personalized therapeutic care' on anyone.

Anonymous:
Excel Academy is interesting.

They were FORCED to change. The new sheriff in town had the courage to stop the "scrared straight" aspect of the program - the jail visit and undressing part.

Without this step in the program they could as well stop taking clients for behavior issues. Now they are only taking clients with addiction problems and they don't allow transport firms anymore.

This change in strategy did cost them clients. They had about 110 clients before and right now they have 20-30. The targetgroup are simply smaller. If they ever reach full capacity with their new concept they will only have about 60 clients, which is almost the haft of the previous number.

It will cost them maybe 250,000 dollars each month. Auch!

More info is to read on strugglingteen. (Normally no good news from there but in this case it is).


--- Quote ---Don Vardell, Executive Director, has become the driving force behind the 'new' EXCEL. He arrived on the EXCEL scene in August 2007. At that time, EXCEL Academy had 110 students. From August 2007 to January 2008, through attrition, redirection to more appropriate programs, and a large graduation in December 2007, the enrollment shrank to 15 students. The restructuring of EXCEL Academy began in earnest in January 2008.
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--- Quote ---When we visited, there were 20 students registered at the Academy. The plan of the 'new' EXCEL is to increase enrollment to 35, and plans for the future have a maximum enrollment of 56 students.
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Of course it is not a total loss. When you work with people who comes for help voluntary, you dont need so much staff, but still the income is lower than in the old days.

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