Welcome to our web site

We are so glad you decided to visit our website.  We provide the most up-to date information to parents, who are considering hiring an educational consultant.  Typically, parents come to us when they are unable to make those key decisions or need our guidance before finding the "right fit", or the right placement setting for their child. This may vary with each parent and student but our goal is to help.

Most parents may soon realize they are either unfamilar with the process of working with a educational consultant, or after they have searched on their own they realize their own knowledge is limited.  This decision often made in haste, may result in making mistakes which they may acknowledge,  is simply outside their area of expertise.  This may be further be complicated when a parents this decision is an emotional one.

We recognize, most parents have a vested interest in their child. This is why we will help you make those critical decisions.  The decision does not have to made alone, nor will ebe pressure you into making those decisions in haste.  But we do rely on your discussion with us before making any decison.  This process is individualized approach, not a " one size fits all" to working with you and your child.   This makes our services more personalized and not just another practice.

This apporach is most sucessful when you rely on our discussion than other parents for information.  Our discussion is very open, process, where you share with us your concerns to understand your child's needs.  By working together, we give you, the support and guidance you need.  We discuss our resources and thsoe you might be unfamiliar with.  

We also, save you time, and financial investment,which can be most helpful depending on your financial challenges you are faced with.  In today's financial market, hiring an educational consultant, just makes sense.   Some investment you make in hring a consultant or a school are overlooked in doing the work alone.  We allow you to ask your questions, to help you avoid the myths which are sometimes addressed by parents.

Our dicussion occurs when you allow us to work with you from the start to the end. This starts with Gettimg Started.   Additionally, we will have you complete our assessent before our discussion begins.  In our discussion, our agreement will be reviewed after we have discussed the assessment.  When this happens, we can provide the guidance and direction for the best suited program or school for your child. This is why the process needs to be explained.

This process continues after the placement.  The admission process is just one step. The second and third step is continuing to work with you during the placement itself and following up after leaving the schools. This includes: reviewing grades, keeping track of your child's progress at the school or program and collectively working together, while keeping you informed of parent workshops, deadlines, or conference calling, the school visits.

You can schedule an appointment to meet with us or contact us using our Contact Us Form.  This form is on the main page of the site.  We will review your comments and concerns, as they arrive in our email. You can also submit other request using this form through our email.

We will discuss discharge planning, in the case of therapeutic school placement, after the student has before the student leaves the program. Not all placements work for all students, and in this case, we will offer other programs.  Mos students receive our follow up after returning home at the "home-school".  In these cases succesful completion of high school might be a dicussion with us and your child. In other cases, planning for college might be an option.  We prepare you and your child to reach his/her highest level of sucess.

Internatinoal students and families may need our help in learning English.  In these cases we offer to find the right program to address their verbal or written skills and improving these through placement in a private school.  The right schools for your child is important and so are other issues for international families.  Therefore we address each family on a case by case informing them of the law for these students and immigration issues of being a full time student.

Children with emotional challenges are often faced with depression, low self esteem, often engage in truancy and running away, skipping school, failing or doing poorly in school or suffer from anxiety, lack motivation, distraction, drug use or experienting, or many other emotional challenges, which will identified by our consultant.   The benefits from working with our services, in these cases would apply for a special needs student in a public or private school.

Our discussion with parents, may vary with each family. We always starts witn an intially (30) minute phone call.  When we agree to meet, any details of the information we requested from our assessment, will be reviewed at this time.  Our agreement is for a one year period, renewable after the year placement.   In most cases. a student who needs a different program or school will be discussed, and cost exceeding the cost of the orginal agreement will be reviewed.  At this time, a new agreement will be discussed before any continued services are rendered.

The levels of placement can range from K-12 through young adults. We want you to have a clear picture of our steps to Getting Started.  Our approach is designed to provide you with feedack and give us information as soon as possible.  This happens using "real time" application via email or voice mail and finally meeting you in person.  We also offer online Skype services, when distance is a problem or when you cannot meet in your home.

In a crisis situation, we faciliate the process of getting your child to a program before we make other decisions.  We accomplish this coordinating transportation and working with other clinicans, teachers, or admission staff at the school.  In a traditional boarding school we offer work with those students year around.  

We help you understand the over 200 classes and services which might be provided at boarding school.  This clarifies to our parents the curriculum and the philosophy to our parents making it easier for decision making. We realize making this decision needs to be careful and takes time.

We regularly tour schools and programs to enable you to the correct information about a school or schedule a tour with us, to have a face to face meeting with the school or program of your choice.   We also keep you informed of our tours, conferences, on our blog post.  You can go directly to our testimonals and read or watch online videos of our tours, and research schools on line.  

As a parent, you may have (FAQ's) Frequently Asked Question's ,which are on our web site.   Simply click on the hi have a clear ghlighted link and it will answer many of your questions there.  We will always answer your questions truthfully and honestly and when we may not have all the answers, we will direct you to the right person.

Parents will find our services useful and very simple. It allows you have control of the direction of your options, eliminates doing the work on your own. This gives you complete control in your decision making, and provides you support you need.  This is critical to helping you reach us and keeping in contact with you.  All of  this can be done through email, fax or calling.

You can submit your request on line using our Contact Us Form. or leave a message and when you are ready simply review our Getting Started Link for the 6 easy steps. Whether you have a child with special needs or gifted we can help, inculding the following conditions or students.

Children with a variety of special needs can be helped by our services. This includes: Neurological Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Development Disabilities, as well as other learning differences and challenges in behavior.  Some of these range of these conditions include: Asperger's, Dyslexia, Executive Functioning Disorder, or Behavioral Challenge common for adolescents, eating disorders for girls or boys and oppositional and defiant children or adolescents or children and young adults at risk.

Both the assessment and agreement can be sent via email @ info@educational-planning-and- counseling.org   All calls will be returned within 24 hours, or you may contact us when there are other times more convenient.  We will contact you immediately. This is especially, in a crisis, situation when contacting us needs to be within a 24/7 time frame. You can send us an quick email or please leave a detailed message.

Many parents would like to know our professional memberships. We are providing this information, for you knowledge.  We do adhere to the good practices standard of the following organizations: The Assocation of Educational Thrapist, The Higher Education Consultants Association, The Association of Boarding Schools, The Small Boarding School Association, The National Association of Therapeutic Baording Schools and Programs. As a A + RATING  with the Better Business Burea we also maintain good business practices.

We are also a member of  The National Asssociation of Independent Schools whom  provides information to parents about the independent schools we work with. Parents can do to our About US link for more information. We also work with local education agencies, in formulating with the (LEA) Local Education Agency.  This does not mean the local schoo district will pay for our services, it means we will determine whether the needs of the student can be addressed by the district, and if our services would best servve the families, in any state or country. 

We look foward to working with you soon!

Respectfully yours,

Kenneth Davis, MA Ed, CEO of Educational Planning and Counseling Services

Indpendent Educational Consultant