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woodbury reports:
Contact:

http://crossroadsrtc.com/index.php?o=contact

Sam Dahlin
email: bowles.derek@gmail.com
phone: 801-791-2316
fax: 801-760-4638

Crossroads Academy
914 32nd St
Ogden, Utah 84403

Xelebes:
Any relation to the ponzi schemes being posted in the OFFA?

cmack:
http://www.heal-online.org/childtortureusa.htm#cherokee

Cherokee Creek Boys School--Located in Westminster, South Carolina.  HEAL has received a report of fraud and abuse from two former staff at this program.  We are working on verification.  The preliminary report from the staff states: "...We had actually both suspected for awhile that the entire school was based on lies, primarily due to the fact that everything that happens there is kept as quiet as possible.  The students have almost no privacy in anything they say or do.  Their outgoing and incoming mail is read and regulated (Civil Rights/Constitutional Violation--Illegal Practices) so that they can’t say anything damning about Cherokee Creek.  Their phone calls are always scheduled and monitored by the primary counselor or therapist for the same reason.  Also, Cherokee Creek will hire anyone to watch the students during the day as long as they have at least an Associate’s degree (it doesn’t particularly matter what the degree is in), and these people are called “counselors” to the parents.  On third shift, the students’ needs are taken care of by individuals that only have to have high school diplomas.  There is never a doctor on campus, but a LPN from 7:30 to 3:00 on the weekdays.   On the weekends, there are no medical personnel at all, and pretty much anyone is allowed to disperse medications (which almost all of the students are on).  There are many other questionable practices at Cherokee Creek that I’m aware of, especially pertaining to the psychological well-being of the students.   I actually thought when I was hired that my job was to ensure the students were  taken care of both psychologically and physically, but the closer I got to the students and the more they liked me and talked to me, the more it seemed the “powers that be” wanted me gone.  I’ll put it this way, when I stopped following what the people over me said and began questioning now some of my co-workers were dealing with the students…well, I didn’t last long after that..."

woodbury reports:
Meet Our Staff

Samuel K. Dahlin, MS, Ph.D., LMFT
Co-Owner/Founder, Clinical Director, Primary Therapist


samdahlin@yahoo.com

Crossroads Academy - Sam Dahlin FamilySam received his B.S in Psychology at the University of Utah. He then attended Brigham Young University, where he completed his M.S and Ph.D in Marriage and Family Therapy. While in school, Sam’s clinical experience included working with couples, families, and individuals. His research and clinical focus turned toward adolescents and substance abuse. Sam has presented research at national marriage and family therapy conferences and has been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Over the past 10 years, Sam has been working with adolescents and their families in various settings. Sam has spent over six years working as a wilderness therapist. He worked at Aspen Achievement Academy in Loa, Utah for a year where he first learned how powerful the wilderness can be as an agent of change in the life of an adolescent. Sam then worked as the adolescent program director at the Gathering Place, an outpatient substance abuse clinic. After missing the wilderness, he returned a year later, this time to the Second Nature Wilderness Program in Duchesne, Utah, where he was a primary therapist for five years. At the end of those five years, Sam and the Second Nature founders partnered up with an existing school called Willow Creek. As a partner, director, and therapist, Sam spent this last year helping develop the Willow Creek School into a solid clinical boarding school.

Currently, Sam is the co-founder of Crossroads Academy. He is the clinical director and a primary therapist. He is also one of the wakeboard instructors in the recreation program at Crossroads.
Crossroads Academy - Sam Dahlin

Sam spent the first twenty two years of his life growing up in the Bay Area (Campbell, CA). He has been living in Utah for the past twelve years. Sam has also been married for that same amount of time (He followed his wife to Utah). Sam married a wonderful girl named Melanie, and together they have three beautiful daughters, Haylee (8), Kambrie (6), and Gwen (3). Sam’s family enjoys many outdoor activities together, with snowboarding and wakeboarding as two of their favorites. Sam has been snowboarding since 1989 and wakeboarding since 1997. He also really enjoys skateboarding on half pipes and needs a lot of work on his street skating skills.

"Starting up Crossroads Academy has been a dream of mine ever since I was working at Aspen Achievement Academy seven years ago. After finishing my PhD and gaining experience in both wilderness and residential therapy, I am finally in a place to realize this dream.

About half way through my graduate school experience, it became clear to me that working with adolescents was the right fit for me. Adolescence is such a difficult developmental phase to navigate through and many teens struggle to find their way. Like your son, I too, struggled during adolescence, as well as in my young adult years. I stopped following the values that my parents had tried to instill in me, and began lying and abusing substances to the point that I had lost all direction in life. At age 21, I had a rock bottom experience that changed my life. After that experience, I searched for meaning in my life, and what I found was nothing particularly deep or profound, but rather something very basic. The truth I learned for me was that life is about finding lasting joy, and this joy is found by living true to my values.

Crossroads Academy - Sam DahlinWhile I realize that each individual has his or her own set of values, I believe that there are some basic principles in life, which if followed, will bring genuine happiness to most people. I believe that the four guiding principles of our program (family, integrity, work, and play) will give your son back the foundation that he needs to find success and happiness. My motto is: “Work hard and play hard.” That is why I am running a small school, so that I will be able to know all 16 students and have the opportunity to not only be a part of their treatment team, but to be playing with them each day. I believe this will foster meaningful, lasting relationships that will help these young men at this important crossroads in their lives."

woodbury reports:
Meet Our Staff

Derek Bowles, MS, LCSW
Co-Owner/Founder, Program Director, Primary Therapist


bowles.derek@gmail.comCrossroads Academy - Derek Bowles

Derek Bowles is a co-founder of Crossroads Academy and primary therapist. Derek received a Bachelors degree from Weber State University where he double majored in Social Work and Sociology. He received a Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work from Brigham Young University in 2001. Derek was awarded the Social Worker of Promise Award by his graduating class.

Since graduating, Derek has worked with adolescents in both outpatient and residential treatment centers. He worked as a primary therapist for YHA, a private treatment center for adolescent males until he co-founded Pathway Academy in Ogden, Utah. Derek has served as clinical director for the past two years. He sold Pathway Academy after his partner and co-founder became ill. Derek has maintained a private practice in Farmington, Utah, where he specializes in adolescents and couples therapy.

Derek has presented at the Utah State Mental Health Conference on suicide, and the National Victims Awareness Conference. Derek is an accomplished presenter and trainer and has served as a Critical Incident Debrief Therapist with the Davis County sheriff’s and District Attorney’s office.
Crossroads Academy - Derek Bowles

Derek’s greatest joy lies in his relationship to his wife of 12 years, Cariane, and his two daughters, Madison (9) and Myken (3). Derek and Cariane built their home in Liberty, Utah located in beautiful Ogden Valley, just minutes away from two major ski resorts and two mountain lakes. Derek is an avid fly fisherman and has fished throughout the United States. He is a mediocre golfer, but is working at improving his game. Derek enjoys all aspects of the outdoors and looks forward to working with the students at Crossroads Academy in hopes of holding on to his adolescence a bit longer.

"It is interesting how life seems to draw us toward our strengths and passions. When the opportunity came for Sam, and I to start Crossroads Academy, I jumped at the chance to combine the joys of adolescent treatment with the outdoors and boarding sports. It is my belief that adolescents who find enjoyment and confidence in sports, education, and interpersonal relationships are better able to manage the difficult roads that so many young people face today.

The values that Crossroads Academy are built upon have served me well in my life: Integrity in all that we do, strong family bonds that include friends and community, work that is the basis for self-confidence and success, and finally, play, that brings meaning and memories to our lives. These values have provided me with a strong foundation in my life and will hopefully provide that same foundation to your son, as he continues down the road of recovery and success."

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