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Academy at Swift River
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Location:
Cummington, MA
School Gender: Co-ed School Type: Therapeutic Boarding School Age Of Acceptance: 12-17.5 Program Length: N/A Tuition: 3,000 minimum per month |
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Academy at Swift River Co-ed Therapeutic Boarding School Information:
Our Program
We feel very privileged that you are considering our therapeutic boarding school as a place where your child - and your family, can begin the process of a New Beginning. Our professional staff of residential mentors,
clinical counselors, teachers, and support services staff are here for one reason: To help teens get back on track by restoring relationships and rediscovering academic success, and to prepare them for the challenges of adolescence and young adulthood.Should you select ASR for your family, over the next 12-20 months or so, you will be challenged to examine your possible contributions to your child's difficulties. Our program is designed to build upon the therapeutic wilderness experience and/or prior treatment success as well as delve into areas that perhaps were not addressed or were only recently identified before coming to ASR.
Mission
To help teens get back on track by restoring relationships, rediscovering academic success, and preparing them to meet the challenges of adolescence and young adulthood.
Philosophy – We believe:
• in the innate goodness and potential of young people and families.
• in respect for the dignity, integrity, and uniqueness of the individual.
• in hope and our human ability to rise to the challenges of self discovery.
• in honesty as the basis for confidence and trust, freedom and responsibility, and love and abundance; and that dishonesty and fear in response to difficult or painful experiences can become a destructive and self-perpetuating pattern that results in scarcity, disconnection and more pain.
• in the efficacy of encouraging, guiding and supporting young people and families as they engage in healing relationships, educational aspirations and the developmental tasks of adolescence.
• that respect is grounded in the establishment and refinement of educational and emotional competencies that both reflect the unique gifts of the individual and encompass the practical skills essential for living in a complex, often demanding and increasingly diverse society.
• in community that fosters a positive peer culture where students help each other to enhance their personal growth, and experienced students assume important leadership roles and responsibilities.
• in the adventure of lifelong learning.
• that teaching by example is not merely the best way, but the only way, to show adolescents how to embrace honesty and responsibility for their lives.
• that balance and integrity, which we strive to establish among the emotional, intellectual, physical, social, and spiritual elements of our students' lives, must also be manifest in our own lives.
