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Any information on Bryce Canyon Academy, Parowan, UT?

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Oscar:
It is unfortunate not that much we have been able to put on the datasheet. We are checking Google maps and streetview up so we can locate them on the maps.

Ursus:
Here's their page on Therapy. Gotta wonder what those soon-to-come "special family seminars" will entail. Will they be contracting these sessions out to some company like Resource Realizations or siimilar?

Emphasis as per the original:

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Therapy

Therapeutic Program
Here at BCA we believe that therapy is an important process in each child's life. The word, "Therapy" is misdirected in many as a form of weakness and therefore shunned, or shied away from. "Therapy" to us and to the children is seen as a form of support, strength, communication, and a change in oneself and their possible destructive or hurtful tendencies of the past. We therefore implement it into all aspects of our program.

Therapists
All therapy is coordinated and ran through Therapists, carefully selected by BCA and professionally licensed with the State of Utah as Health Professionals in their field. Therapists conduct individual, family, and group sessions with students and work hand in hand with our caring and devoted staff to facilitate parent visits, special outings, or improvements needed, on an individual bases, to better help the child with their personal needs and progress.

Parents & Family Support
BCA strongly believes in "Parent & Family Support". Family reunification is our main goal here at BCA. Our best efforts are put toward keeping the family strong and bringing awareness to each individual of changes that can be implemented to create harmony, love, and unity in all. In this manner we believe that once the child graduates and returns home, he or she and their family will have the best chance of keeping their new found child's awakening and personal change, lasting and for a lifetime. For this reason we offer 24-hour family support representatives on hand to assist you in time of need. Special family seminars are in the works to better help parents acquire skills needed, and to bring about a more complete feeling of involvement and pride in their child's progress and life as they progress through these times of self-awareness and positive change.

Clinicians & Staff
Here at BCA, our experienced staff was carefully hand picked in order to bring the best possible people into our program and into your child's life. In this way we hope to bring an atmosphere of caring, devoted, professional individuals that truly believe that seeing a change for the better in another individual is worth more than any amount of money they could make elsewhere. We as owners are very proud of our staff and each child that is enrolled here at BCA.

Ursus:
Here's what Struggling Teens has to say 'bout the place (pretty much parroting what's on the program website):

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New Perspectives
BRYCE CANYON ACADEMY
Posted: May 3, 2010, 13:13

Parowan, Utah
Keith Burgess
Director
435-477-9167
http://www.brycecanyonacademy.com

Bryce Canyon Academy is a residential treatment center for young men and women ages 12-17 who are struggling with emotional and behavioral issues including manipulative and negative attitudes, anger management, lying, stealing and sneaky actions and substance abuse. Additionally, Bryce Canyon works with teens that are lacking motivation in their academics and are skipping school or have school suspensions, are involved in gangs, are running away or creating negative peer relationships.

Licensed by the Utah State Department of Human Services and is accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools, the academics at Bryce Canyon Academy is available for students in 7th-12th grades and offers a college preparatory curriculum and a general academic study course. Owners and Directors at Bryce Canyon Academy are Travis Milne and Keith Burgess.

Bryce Canyon offers representatives to parents and families for 24 hour family support and is in the process of creating family seminars to assist in building skills needed to work towards family reunification. In addition to family therapy, students participate in individual and group therapies.

For recreation, students enjoy a variety of activities that include sports: soccer, basketball and volleyball, exercise and jogging, music, game room sports and winter sports such as tubing and skiing.

[This information came from the Bryce Canyon Academy website.]


Copyright © 2010, Woodbury Reports, Inc.

Ursus:
Info from Utah's Office of Licensing... I guess they really haven't been around all that long, as this looks like an initial license:

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Facility:     bryce canyon academy
Location: (Not Mail)    580 north main street parowan, utah 84761
Contact:    keith burgess, administrator
Phone: 435 4779167
Mail:    po box 967 / parowan, UT 84761    
County: iron
License:
Type: Initial
Begins: 11/18/2009
Ends: 10/31/2010
License Number: 16056
Service: Residential Treatment
Specific:
Capacity: 48
Gender:
Ages: 12-17 years old[/list]
Licensor:    Greg Hirst

Oscar:
HEAL-online has reported the program as closed. The webpage is gone. I will update the Wiki.

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