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Academy at Sisters
Oscar:
Mr. "Suck it"
Lets assume that you served in a job where you expected that every kid who entered were screened correctly instead of letting the money decide who enter.
How would you prevent contraband in your facility?
Whooter:
Morgan, you will do fine, I had a daughter who attended a school similar to the one you may be going to. From what I have read here you have more going for you than most girls, you seem to be level headed and know what you want to do with your life. This place can help you get to your goals if you use it to your advantage. You will be away from home and in an extremely safe place…. Maybe without all the comforts that you are use to, but you will feel safe and be able to work on yourself.
I have never met anyone who is happy about spending time in jail or employers who enjoy reading about it. So I would not take that advice. You will probably meet those kids who fight the school rules the whole time they are there and then bitch about their time there after graduation and blame the school because they never learned anything. Its up to you if you want to take advantage of the help available to you.
There are tattoo artists who work for someone else and are told what to do all day and there are tattoo artists who own their own businesses and make their own rules and answer to no one except themselves. If you choose to be in and out of jail or living on the streets then most banks will not trust you when it comes time for you to open your own tattoo parlor. Don’t screw up your chances with bad decisions early on which you cannot erase.
Learn to be comfortable with yourself and who you are and then you can be in control of your own life and be your own boss if you like. This place can help you reach your goals faster if you take advantage of it.
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Oscar:
Mr. Whooter
Academy at Sisters is not Academy at Swift River. At sisters they combine wilderness and the boarding school. The campus her mother toured was the Swift River like campus used once the wilderness phase is over.
If you should compare the facility with a Aspen like, it looks more like Turn-about Ranch where the campus parents don't see for obvious reasons is called Roundy, but Turn-about is a high-impact short turn program.
I agree that jail is a poor option.
Ursus:
Many of these programs use a more or less separate but ideologically connected organization for indoctrinating the families of these kids into "the process." As examples, WWASP's uses David Gilcrease's Resource Realizations, Hyde School uses HAPA and the Hoffman Quadrinity Process, etc. etc.
Bill and Penelope Valentine's Next Step For Success coaching enterprise is also one such organization, generally used by CEDU spin-offs. We know that Benchmark uses them to teach (and "accredit") their "counselors." Apparently, Academy At Sisters also utilizes them to "coach" program parents:
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Breaking News
Posted: Apr 16, 2010 14:10
Academy at Sisters
Bend, OR
Academy At Sisters Offers Parent Coaching Through Next Step For Success
Contact:
Chesley Strowd
Admissions Director
Academy at Sisters
800-910-0412
http://www.academyatsisters.org
April 16, 2010
Academy at Sisters continues to examine all facets of the treatment we provide for students and their families to ensure that everyone is an active participant in the process of meaningful change. After several trial months of a few new families working with the ICF Certified Coaches of Next Step for Success, the Parent Coaching has proven to be very successful and an invaluable service to the families we serve. Therefore, we are excited to announce that Academy at Sisters now provides Parent Coaching through Next Step for Success to all incoming families.
Not only do they serve as an outside support for parents and guardians, but Next Step for Success also helps parents solidify their commitment to their daughter's placement at the Academy at Sisters. Additionally, the Parent Coaches of Next Step for Success maintain a unified front with our program, serving to meet the best interest of the student and parents as a family. Overall, this results in: confident parents who are more aligned with their daughter's treatment goals, parents who are less likely to be manipulated, and consequently, a program with higher student retention rates.
The ultimate goal for Academy at Sisters is to provide the best possible services for our young women and their families who have entrusted us with their child in need. The extensive experience of the solution-focused Certified Coaches of Next Step for Success is one more piece to the puzzle to help us obtain this goal.
Academy at Sisters
http://www.academyatsisters.org
Bend, OR
Admissions Contact:
Chesley Strowd
800-910-0412
Next Step for Success
http://www.nextstepforsuccess.com
Redmond, OR
541-504-5224
Copyright ©2010, Woodbury Reports, Inc.
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--- Quote from: "MorganMDC" ---Well, it's official.
Just as an update, I'll post it.
My parents have decided on the Academy.
It's a go, though I have a while.
Though this forum seems to have given my parents - especially my father who found a place in Portland that's not a live-in, but my mother has decided it isn't an option... - things to think about, there is no escaping this end result.
I thank all of you for your help and insights, and if you find anything else, we'll check back here to look at it.
--- End quote ---
Well, if I were you, I wouldn't ever again take your parents' word at face value. Your dad said right in this thread that if you agreed to go to counseling at home, he would not send you away.
Anybody who thinks you can "help a family" by breaking up the family and isolating the children from it is an idiot.
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