Anna Barnes, a case manager, and Connie Peters, a career advisor, with Academy at Sisters, a girl's therapeutic boarding schools in Oregon near Bend, spoke to Lon Woodbury on his L.A Talk Radio show about how students benefit from participating in community services. They volunteer within the school and in the neighborhood community. The advantage's include building relationship and leadership skills through engagement with many people in society.
The guests described how the Academy at Sisters, founded in 1994 and located in Bend, Oregon, is a therapeutic boarding school for struggling adolescent girls from 13 to 18 years old. The school not only offers an individualized, safe and positive therapeutic approach but also outstanding academics. Community service is integrated into the program, with optional equine therapy.
Through voluntary community work, the girls are able to free themselves from their troubled thoughts, behavior and attitudes while interacting with members of society. They are able to grow beyond diagnostic labels such as A.D.H.D., A.D.D and dyslexia, and they become aware of their interests in life as well as what they are specifically good at doing.
The average period in which the girls board at the school is 14 to 18 months, a period in which the girls undergo a transition away from their negative attitude towards schooling, themselves and their families. They leave as individuals who have excelled in academics, and who now know how to lead and relate well with others.
In addition to the psychological change that the girls undergo while in the institution, they also attain a wide range of skills, and build extensive resumes and references. They benefit greatly from the voluntary work that they did during their stay at the center. Similarly, their self esteem is boosted through community work and it also instills a solid work ethic in the girls.
The guests described how the Academy at Sisters, founded in 1994 and located in Bend, Oregon, is a therapeutic boarding school for struggling adolescent girls from 13 to 18 years old. The school not only offers an individualized, safe and positive therapeutic approach but also outstanding academics. Community service is integrated into the program, with optional equine therapy.
Through voluntary community work, the girls are able to free themselves from their troubled thoughts, behavior and attitudes while interacting with members of society. They are able to grow beyond diagnostic labels such as A.D.H.D., A.D.D and dyslexia, and they become aware of their interests in life as well as what they are specifically good at doing.
The average period in which the girls board at the school is 14 to 18 months, a period in which the girls undergo a transition away from their negative attitude towards schooling, themselves and their families. They leave as individuals who have excelled in academics, and who now know how to lead and relate well with others.
In addition to the psychological change that the girls undergo while in the institution, they also attain a wide range of skills, and build extensive resumes and references. They benefit greatly from the voluntary work that they did during their stay at the center. Similarly, their self esteem is boosted through community work and it also instills a solid work ethic in the girls.
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Lon Woodbury, the founder of Struggling Teens, has recorded the complete interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio show for people to enjoy at any time.
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