Services

Home and Office Visits- We provide home visits to help parents who need to meet in the comfort of their home to discuss their child's need.  While some families prefer to meet in our offices this can also be arranged in advanced.

Schedule Family and Student Tours of Progams- We work direcctly with boarding schools and private schools to arrange tours with families before making a placement decision. Many times a consultant will ask a family to visit a school before addressing the placement options. We can also arrange meet you at a school, which we believes helps parents in making any final decision. We can also coordinate transporting a student to a program or arraning the details of your visit. Many times we work wituh a concierge service on air. ground or other transportation services to help families.  We also work collaboratively wiuth the school and faculty when the family needs our help in this area.

Special Needs Placement - We help parents who have children with special needs or learning difference. Many of these students have varied learning challenges including: adhd, add, apergerger's syndrome,  or other differences can be helped by our services.   Most students with special needs may need a specific program setting or school. 

Students with substance abuse or mental health issues, and challenges by their behavior can be helped.  Some students with defiance or oppositional behavior may have a underlying learning disablity.  While most of these types of students, can benefit from your services, we provide the best academic assistance to help these students.The most important factor, is the correct learning enviroment for your child.  We help parent sort out this most complicated siutations for educational sucess. 

Boarding School Placement  Grade K-12 - We provide help to parents looking for a traditional, co educational or single gender boarding school. Many independent private schools have different admission policies.  This is a unique opporunites for these students, to develop socially and academically. We arrange for visiting the schools, as well as walking parents through the admission process from start to finish.  Many schools require testing before admission, and we guide you through this process, as well as discuss your options. Most boarding schools have requirement for admission, along with deadlines, and this is critical to acceptance.  We help parents who are relocating, as well as those who need our assistance in understanding the boarding and day school community.

Miliatry Boarding School Placement- Some parents are looking for a miliatary boarding school, and this can be asessed by a consultant.  Depending on the student a miiliatry school can offer a different experience for a student.  A consultant will work with the family to decide if this is the correct setting for the student. Many military boarding school can lead to successful careers in the military following graduation or enrollment in a prestigous school like: West Point, The Navel Academy, or the Air Force Academy.  A consultant can guide a family in this direction in a placement.

Charter School Placement- We offer help to parents who are looking at charter schools, which is increasingly becoming an interest for students.  While charter schools are public schools they vary in philosophy.  A consultant will work with families to help them understnd the differences and explore their options versus other public schools.   

College Placement or College Living Experience: We offers a variety of different paths for students looking for a college placement.  Colllege placement for us involves working with parents in the admission process and keeping timelines for the student for acceptance in a school. Many of our students have learning differences, but we help parents to understand programs or school to help students with learning differences, as well as many of the laws as it applies to special needs students and the colleges they attend.  

International Student Placement:  Many families of international students need our assistance. We offer placement in school for ESL student.  English as a Second Language. Many international students need to find a school to help them with basic language or to have a command of English.  We help parents and students in this process, including the requirement for a student visa.  We assist in the process including some case by case management. All schools require an I-20 visa and a legal passport to enter a country to study. We will help you in this process.

Wilderness Programs.  We provide an opportunity for a student to be places in thiis unique enviroment, often before entering a theapeuti school placement. Many programs offer as many as 52 days in a wilderness programs or shorter program with transition.  Many shorter programs stablize students before a student is enrolled in a therpeutic school program by a consultant.  Many have shorter summer programs, designed to help students with leadership skills or social skills, or even rotating programs are the trend, which often allows students to ,move from one intervention program to another.  Many program now have family camp programs. which are added to help the dynamic of the family.

Private -Day School Placement- Parents selecting a day school programs which can be both a part of a boarding school or seperate  may work with a consultant in a school or program, we work independently to help parents with this option.  Providing direction to famiilies is essential in these settings.  

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment Programs: We work with families with students with substance drug abuse issues.  Many of our placement include: detox programs or entended care programs which have range in age from children to adult students ranging in age from 18-26 years of age.  Parent's faced with behavior challanges with these students often need immediate intervention.  We provide crisis based intervention to support the family and to find the best program to address adolescents or adults.

Intensive Treatment Programs- Some students may need intensive treatment programs for placement. These might be step down or step up programs for these families. Each program is really individual and depending on the needs of the family student's with various mental health needs or conditions are placed in shorter program and moved to more progressive programs. These might include: work simplication, supervised programming designed for independence.  This might be particularly true for a student who needs supervision and medication management.

Residental  Treatment Placement- Some students might need a residental program setting, to provide the best enviroment to help this type of student based on the students emotional growth or maturity.  Some of our residental programs include: treatment for eating disorders or sexual abuse issues, as well as developmental disabilites or those who have physical limitations due to a disability.  We also work with parents to help them understand the services avaiable in their community as an advocate, helping with IEP's  and 504 plans.
 

Summer Boarding Schools- Some parents may be looking for a summer boarding school program for their child. We work with these parents to locate the best summer boarding school.  While many parents may confuse summer boarding school with a camp program, we clarify the difference helping to explore their option.  Most summer boarding schools have strong academic  preparation for college.

Educational Testing- While setting for student varies, we do refer or have testing for students for private schol admission.  We also direct parents to psychological service and therapy after leaving a program. At the college level the SAT or ACT test dates are coordinated with the consultant.  Testing a junior boarding school or upper schools vary and we discuss this with parents. Many students in special needs placement need psycho-educational testing along with other types of testing, depending on the students needs.

Scholarships and Loans- We direct families to scholarship and tax credit or loan programs to help familes with the afforablity of going to independent private schools.  Most of our students apply for some financial aid and receive some award. While we cannot guarantee scholarhisps or any financial aid, we do help familes in this aspect of placement. We do not offer grants. this is an entirely different process and applies to college admission, not independent schools. Many of our resources are discussed. We definately must meet with you address this area.  Many time in the case of special needs students, some discussion on funding with a school district may apply to attending a program.

Billing and Payment of Services. We provide options for payment for our services through secured web sites like Pay-pal or our online payment options.  This allows our clients to receive an invoice for the payment and make payment directly through their choice of Visa, Master Card, Discover or their own banking institution.