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Cherokee Creek Boys School
Ursus:
...And another brief bio from Cherokee Creek's earliest days. Petry's background includes both Cascade School and Mount Bachelor Academy. Italic emphasis as per original:
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Genelle Petry
Director of Admissions / Mentor
Genelle has been working with residential/emotional growth schools for more than eleven years and her professional background includes experience in admissions, academics, marketing, transportation co-ordination and record management. Before coming to Cherokee Creek, Genelle was the Director of Admissions and Academics for Cascade School in Whitmore, California. At Cascade she directed the Admissions, Academic and Nursing Departments, was responsible for overseeing marketing, advertising and public relations and helped to develop systems for governing the school. Prior to her work at Cascade she was the Director of Admissions for Mount Bachelor in Prineville, Oregon, where she directed admissions, supervised staff and worked closely with parents and other professionals in the industry.
Her academic background includes: a Master of Arts Degree in Whole Systems Design with a Concentration in Organization Systems Renewal (from Antioch University, in Seattle, Washington); a Diploma of Competency in Systems Renewal Consultation from the International Institute for the Study of Systems Renewal, (Antioch University, in Seattle, Washington); A study abroad program (in Bali, Indonesia) where she studied multi-cultural learning process through systems analysis; A Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business and Human Resources Management (from Simpson College in Redding, California.)
Prior to her work in the therapeutic boarding school industry she worked with Pry-Core, Inc. as the Assistant Manager of Transportation, Wheelabrator, Inc. where she worked with record management and product quality and Adscon Construction, where she worked in Purchasing and Transportation (And "YES" she can drive an eighteen wheeler!)
Jackson Culotta, Headmaster and Co-Founder of Cherokee Creek Boys School says, "Genelle is a very caring and conscientious professional with a positive attitude and a sense of humor. She possesses both a "big picture" perspective and an awareness of the details necessary to maintain quality. I have worked with her in the past and am impressed by her thorough approach in determining the appropriateness of a student/family placement. She has the ability to make a family feel secure in their decision during a very stressful time. Genelle is a wonderful addition to the senior management team."
Genelle says, "I have been working in admissions at special needs schools, since 1991. I do this work, quite simply, because it matters. I like offering hope to distressed families who are making decisions regarding interventions for their children.
"Cherokee Creek Boys School is a caring and nurturing, yet challenging, learning community, largely due to the dedication of Jackson Culotta, (Headmaster and Co-founder) whom I have worked with before. Integrity of purpose and dedication to value are embedded in the school's mission and vision. I am impressed with the diverse talents and experiences of the entire staff as well as their generosity. I am delighted to be part of the Cherokee Creek community."
Genelle enjoys, learning, art, travel, reading and spending time with her family. She claims that her two greatest assets are her wonderful children, who have "enlarged her tent" with their spouses and a delightful grandson!
Ursus:
Cross-post from the CEDUWATCH updated list thread:
--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---The following place is especially pernicious, since its target population is "middle-school boys, ages 11-15," a particularly vulnerable and potentially fragile time (get them while they are young). Moreover, it might appear to be relatively easy for such a program to skimp on giving the kids even a shimmer of an adequate education, since they'll be long out of there prior to their anticipated high school graduation.
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Re. Cherokee Creek Boys School:
Founders:
Jackson Culotta - "Headmaster / Co-Founder and Mentor"
Former staff and head at RMA (mid 1990s), head at BCA (late 1990s), head at Cascade (2000-2001), and overall CEDU Admin (Idaho schools: RMA, BCA, NWA; mid-late 1990s).[/list]
Beth Black - "Co-Founder and Mentor" (also "President / Founder and Mentor" on a later webpage which does not include Culotta)
Former CEDU parent; Jackson Culotta was her son's therapist at either RMA or BCA.[/list]
Original Staff (2003) with known CEDU connections:
Ron May - "Manager of Outdoor Recreation / Plant Services and Mentor"
Five and a half years with CEDU, mostly at BCA, last working as a "logistics coordinator" for all three of the north Idaho schools.[/list]
Jane May - "Director of Operations / Human Resources and Mentor"
Ron's wife; five years of "financial management and operational oversight of all support service operations" for RMA, BCA, NWA, Ascent, and Milestones.[/list]
Genelle Petry - "Director of Admissions / Mentor" (also "Executive Director / Mentor" on a later webpage)
Eleven years experience (in 2003) in "residential/emotional growth schools" including being Admissions Director at Cascade School and also at Mount Bachelor Academy.[/list]
Original Staff (2003) with presumed CEDU connections:
E. Shaler Black - "Administrative Assistant / Mentor"
My guess is that this is Ron and Beth Black's son who ended up in Idaho. I have not been able to confirm this. Contents of Bio appear to have been removed from website.[/list]
Jill Culotta - "Family Center Counselor / Mentor"
This is Jackson Culotta's wife. Archiving of Bio appears to have been blocked.[/list]
Current Staff (2009) with known CEDU connections:
Beth Black - "Founder and President"
See above.[/list]
David LePere - "Executive Director"
Met his wife Janine while both were Counselors at MBA; "17 years of experience in therapeutic educational settings" including being "School Director and Executive Director for two therapeutic schools and a wilderness therapy program."[/list]
* There are other staff with other program and/or potential-program backgrounds, but which are not discernibly CEDU in origin. Plus... the most recent incarnation of CCBS's website is a bit more... circumspect, shall we say... about background specifics.
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Ursus:
Anyone know where Hunter Couture worked previously?
According to Cherokee Creek Boys School Executive Director David LePere, "Hunter has been facilitating positive change with youth in wilderness therapy since 2002, and I had the pleasure of working with him at a program in Utah in 2005."
According to the summary in my previous (cross) post, LePere "met his wife Janine while both were Counselors at MBA," and has "17 years of experience in therapeutic educational settings including being School Director and Executive Director for two therapeutic schools and a wilderness therapy program."
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Breaking News
Posted: Jun 23, 2009
Cherokee Creek Boys School
Westminster, SC
Hunter Couture Joins Cherokee Creek
Contact:
David LePere
Executive Director
(864) 638-8679
http://www.cherokeecreek.net
June 17, 2009
Hunter Couture has joined Cherokee Creek Boys School as the new manager of its Cherokee Treks program.
"The Cherokee Treks program is our outdoor adventure program," says Executive Director, David LePere. "Cherokee Creek is committed to getting our boys outdoors into 'nature's classroom' and The National Wild and Scenic Chattooga River is the perfect backdrop for our Treks curriculum."
Each weekend a team of students has the opportunity to develop and sharpen their skills in outdoor activities and teamwork while "discovering what is real and true about themselves and the world around them." Activities in our local watershed, forests and wild places may include whitewater canoeing and rafting, backpacking, hiking or horseback riding, swimming at the base of a waterfall and problem solving through activities related to outdoor living.
"Hunter has been facilitating positive change with youth in wilderness therapy since 2002," says LePere, "and I had the pleasure of working with him at a program in Utah in 2005. He is a powerful role model for our boys. I know his focus on safety and his skills, talent and personality are a perfect match for middle school boys and our 'small school with a big heart.'"
Copyright © 2009, Woodbury Reports, Inc.
Anonymous:
I'm bumping this thread in light of Mount Bachelor Academy closing. CCBS's Exexcutive Director David Lepere and his wife Janine (formerly Janine Riehl) both met there. I think they worked at Cedu after. I was there with them. That woman Janine was a real sadist, the meanest on the staff. She had been one of MBA's original students and then after graduating didn't leave for seven or eight more years, was a mentor-counselor had long after she'd lost all clue about the world outside the bubble. Thnking back about how she treated kids she may have been very disturbed.
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