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.

Gap Year Direction: We provide help for those students in gap year. This involves both day and boarding schools, when student are in between secondary school and college. We attend Gap Fairs to keep abreast or gap programs for student.

Schedule Parent and Student Tours of Progams- We work direcctly with boarding schools to arrange tours with families before making a placement decisions. Many times a consultant will ask a family to visit a school before addressing the final placement options. We can arrange to meet you and the faculty at a school, which we believes helps parents in making their decision. We also coordinate transporting a student or students to a program, arranging the details of your visit with the school directly. 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 challenges including: adhd, add, apergerger's, or high functioning autism, or other differences, whch can be helped by our services.   Most students with special needs may need a specific program setting or school and we help these students find the "right fit".

Students with substance abuse or mental health issues can also be helped by our educational consultant.  Some students with defiance or oppositional behavior may have a underlying learning disablity.  Those students may require placement in a residental setting, which can benefit them academically and socially to help these students.The most important factor, is the correcting their learning enviroment to their learing capabilities and helping the parents of these children sort out this most complicated siutations for educational sucess. 

Boarding School Placement  Grade K-12 - We provide help to at this grade level at various ages looking traditional boarding pr day schools. Most of our parents looking ab boarding school are looking for students who have the acacdemic suces of their children and usually a boarding school provides this sucess.

Many independent private schools also maybe considered which enables us to provide a unique opporunity to discuss with you the best choice for your child.  This includes: working with your family to arrange a tour of visitng different schools, as well as walking parents through the entire admission process from start to finish., looing at all of your options.

Many students in this grade level require testing before admission and some have a lengthy process for aadmission to a more brief one. . Most boarding schools have required deadlines, which is discussed in detail with your family, critical to your child's acceptance.  We help parents who are relocating, as well as those who need our assistance completing essays for admission to getting to a school or program.

Miliatry Boarding School Placement- Some parents looking for a miliatary boarding school will find this unique setting is not for discipline. Depending on the student, a miiliatry school can offer a different experience and a committment does vary from a traditional boarding school.

Our consultant will work with the family to decide if this is the correct setting for your child.  Most military boarding schools can lead to a military career which might include: prestigous schools like: West Point, The Navel Academy, or the Air Force Academy.  A consultant can help the family understand the difference and the possibliity for acceptance.

Charter School Placement- We offer help to parents who are looking at charter schools. This type of school is increasingly becoming an interest to parents, and this might be their only option vs a private independent school.  While charter schools are public schools, they do vary in philosophy and mission.  Our consultant will work with your families to help them understnd the differences and explore their options versus other public schools which might incolude a magnet school or another type of ppublic school program.   

College Placement or Direction: We offers a variety of different paths for students looking for a college placement.  Colllege placement for us involves working with parents and other consultants specializing in the admission process for college including addressing our students who are graduating and helping them keeping timelines for the student for acceptance in a school. 

Many of our students have learning differences, so we do offer advise on schools who work with these type of students. We also work with the parents to understand programs or school to help these students. We help address the many of the laws tjt either apply to special needs students, or contact the schools themselves to address special accomodations to special needs students in attending colleges therein.

International Student Placement:  Many families of international students need our assistance in addressing the admission to acceptance. We offer placement in school for student who have need to learn english as a second language often referred to  as an ESL student. 

Many of our international students have come to us needing this type of help with basic language or reading and writing remediation and this is an area we work with families in boarding, summer and sometimes day schools. We also help students to develop a greater command of the language, including working with schools in summer enrichment programs.or meeting the requirements for admission. 

We work with these families on a case by case basis performing case management of these student in pre college application and ongoing monitoring before entering college as they are applying.

All schools require an I-20 visa and a legal passport to enter a country to study. We make sure all of our students are in compliance to thes federal mandate as well as working with tjhe school domestically or from abroad. We are currently working with schools in the UK and Spain and Germany as well as South American, China and Korea. We also work with a family host program to coordinate this process with families.

Wilderness Programs.  We provide an opportunity for a student to be places in wilderness therapy or outdoor programs, which offer a  unique enviroment in a variety of wildreness settings. Many programs offer as many as 52 days in a wilderness programs or shorter length with transition to other programs for longer periods of time.  The ages do vary from children to young adults in these settings many include programs outside the country or in outdoor settings. 

Many programs are designed to teach life skills and provide therapy while most do have strong therapeutic component.  In each case a student should be stablize medically before entering a wilderness program.   

Many wildreness programs have summer and year round programs, designed to help students with leadership skills or social skills, rotating the programs with varied ages and gender to allows students to ,move from one intervention piece to another in the programs.  

Some programs now have family camp programs. which are added to help the dynamic of the family therapy and other do address addictive behavior or challenges. We also work with the field staff keeping parents informed of the child's location, physical health and medical concerns in the program including working in many instances in family therapy in an outdoor experience,

Private-Day  or Smaller Boarding School Placement- Parents selecting a day boarding school can be both a part of a boarding school or seperate  part of a student aattending a school.  We may work with a familyin a school before entering as a full time boarding student and in other cases work at the last year as a boarding student.  Most day schools require boarding the last year of school.

In most cases providing direction to these famiilies is essential in our working with families in day school experience, which also includes touring with a family at a day school program.

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment Programs: We work with families with students of all ages from young children to young adults with substance drug abuse issues.  Many of our placement include: detox programs or entended care programs which have range in age from children to young adults from 18-26 years of age.  Parent(s) faced with these behavior challanges often need immediate intervention bu our consultant.  We provide crisis based intervention to support the family we serve using up to date interventions to find the best program to address the addictive cycle of chemical dependency.  We underststand the addictive patterns in young adults and the experimental phase which may lead to addiction.

Intensive Treatment Programs- Some students may need a  placemnt in an intensive treatment program. These might be step down or step up programs for these families. Each program depends on the needs of the student or the family. These might include: work simplication, supervised programming designed for independence and lifeskills to a detoxification program before entering another program. 

This might be particularly true for a student who needs supervision and medication management, but it also applies to a student with a serious durg or addiction issue which needs medication monitering and removal of toxins due to drug use or abuse,

Residental  Treatment Placement- Some students might need a residental program.  This type of program provide supervision and is sometimes a closed unit or facility. There are exceptions but our placement does not include a state funded program.

Many 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 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 information which can help a family.  We also discuss loan programs to help familes with the afforablity of going to independent private school. 

Most of our students apply for some financial aid in a boarding school, but in a therapeutic school the support is generally by the parent. While we cannot guarantee scholarhisps or any financial aid, we do help familes in this aspect of placement usually addressing this with the school.

We do not offer grants to student.. This is an entirely different process and applies to college admission, This does not apply to independent schools or therapeutic schools or programs.

Many of our resources are discussed. We definately must meet with you address this area.  Many time in the case of special needs students funding with a school district may apply to attending a program. Even children who come from adopted families can obtain subsidy support.

LEA Consultation.  We work directly with the local school district or local education agency to address the students IEP 504 or manifestation plan with special needs student. In most cases we will contact the advocate or the behavioral health agency for the district to find the best options for transition to help the family. While there can be no guarantee in some cases, this is a long process, beyond the time we would work with a family in the placement and includes: our follow up and the transition piece after leaving the program. We also have attended IEP or planning meeeitn on behalf of the family to address the student needs.

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, American Express, Discover or their own banking institution.