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Cross Roads [website] 914 32nd St Ogden, UT US | |
| Phone: | 801-369-0238 |
| Gender: | Boys Only |
| Director Name: | Sam Dahlin |
| Academics: | Crossroads Academy is committed to helping each student find joy and confidence in learning. We recognize that the future success of each student strongly depends on his completion of high school, as well as creating a positive road toward employment and/or higher education. With this in mind, each student who enters our program will have an individual education plan that will address his current needs and skills. This plan will first address his current educational status, including possible areas of concern. If necessary, your son will be placed on an accelerated program to help him catch up on missed credits and put him back on the road to graduation. Our education program is fully accredited by the North West Accreditation, therefore, all credits can be transferred back to your son’s high school, or he may graduate with a high school diploma from our school. We have certified and licensed teachers who teach course work, and one-on-one tutoring is available to each student. While your son’s current educational needs are important, his future success is also paramount to consider and prepare for. Through our academic program, your son will be able to prepare for college by participating in SAT/ACT prep courses. Our school is located just blocks from Weber State University, so taking college classes may be easily facilitated. If college is not in your son’s immediate future, vocational programs are available and may include carpentry, computers, culinary arts, cabinetry, plumbing, as well as many other types of programs. Summary: Individualized Educational Plans North West Accreditation Certified and Licensed Teachers One-on-One Tutoring High School Diplomas available through our program ACT/SAT Preparation Classes College Courses Vocational Training Employment Opportunities |
| Activities: | At Crossroads Academy, we believe that having a balanced leisure life is essential to maintaining a high level of emotional health. When people are challenged both mentally and physically through quality leisure activities, they begin to feel more competent as a sense of self-determination is experienced and developed. As adolescents develop this personal competence through leisure, they begin to feel better about themselves. Recreational activities can not only build self-esteem, but it also allows teenagers to find a positive escape from some of the difficult challenges in life. We believe that the recreation domain of our program is just as important as the academic and therapeutic domains. We want your child learning how to have fun sober and developing more self- confidence as he improves and progresses in the different sports in which he will be participating. While Crossroads students will enjoy many forms of leisure activities varying from passive leisure activities (movies, games, computers, etc) to active leisure (fishing, playing basketball and racquetball, hiking, backpacking, paint balling, scuba diving, etc), the three main recreational activities that we will do on a regular basis are the boarding sports: wakeboarding, snowboarding, and skateboarding. Historically, these sports have been looked at as less than a sport and more as an activity that the "rebellious" kids participate in. Today however, thanks in part to the X-Games and the Olympics, people are validating these sports, recognizing how difficult and technical each of these boarding sports is. Each of these can be life long sports, which allows a person to continually improve their abilities by setting goals and working on each goal until it is realized. In fact, Sam, one of the owners, is 36 years old and still continues to learn new tricks in these sports. Although wakeboarding, skateboarding, and snowboarding are the main sports our Crossroads students will participate in, potential students do not have to excel at or be experienced in any of these sports. What we do want them to have is a willingness and desire to participate in them and an openness to work on improving their skills. We have excellent instructors who will be able to teach the students at whatever level they may be. Skateboarding: On our property, we will have a skate park including 2 skate ramps (half pipes) and a sports court for the students to skate on. Within a 18 mile radius, there are over 4 skate parks and within a 90 mile radius, there are 15 more. Skating can be a daily part of recreation here at Crossroads. Wakeboarding: Crossroads Academy is in a perfect location for wakeboarding. We are 15 minutes away from two different lakes: Pineview Reservoir and Willard Bay. Students will be able to go wakeboarding 3-6 days a week, for a few hours a day during the summer months. Snowboarding: Each winter, students will get season passes to Snowbasin Ski Resort which is 20 minutes away from our property. We will also be able to go night boarding at Wolf Mountain, which is only 15 minutes away from Crossroads. The students have the opportunity to go snowboarding 3-6 days a week, for a few hours a day on weekdays and all day on weekends through the winter and spring months of the year. In addition to the boarding sports, each student will have a workout plan for getting in great physical shape. Students will go to the gym a few times a week and will work with a trainer to plan out their workout regimen. Also, students will receive a diet that promotes recovery and improves overall health and performance. Summary: Daily Recreation Sports Instructors Wakeboarding Skateboarding Snowboarding Regular Gym Attendance Healthy, Nutritional Diet |
| Counseling: | Three important components of our model of change include: Relationship Based: All of our staff are trained on how to hold boundaries with the students while showing love and support. We do not believe in a punishment model to get short term compliance and quick fixes. A relationship of trust will be built over time, which will allow us to inspire change through both our positive role modeling and by our challenging the student’s maladaptive beliefs. Experiential Based:While some of us have very similar stories and backgrounds to your son, lasting change will not take place through our inspirational words. A true and lasting change will come through your son having positive experiences in each of the three domains of our program (therapy, academics, and recreation). These positive experiences will need to bring enough self fulfillment and genuine happiness for your son to decide to give up his old lifestyle of drugs and alcohol. Emotionally Focused: We believe that negative emotions tend to come from negative experiences. Most of us do not like these negative emotions and we tend to come up with ways to block this pain. Your son has found maladaptive ways (drugs, alcohol, anger, stealing, etc) to cope with his negative experiences. Our therapy is designed to push your son to gain insight into these blocking techniques and then teaching him skills to deal with his pain in healthy ways. Individual Therapy: Your son will receive much more than the traditional one hour a week session with his therapist. Due to our smaller caseloads (8 students) and small school (16 students total), we will be able to really get to know your child and establish a great relationship of trust with him. We, Derek and Sam, are both the owners/co-founders of Crossroads Academy and will be the only two therapists at the school. We believe a strong relationship with your son is key, and as such, both of us will spend many hours a week participating in the recreation aspect of the program with your child. We will also go on regular weekend excursions with the students, which will allow us to experience your son in many different settings. Typical weekly individual sessions will be spent outside of our offices going for walks, taking drives up the beautiful canyons, going for sodas, fishing, sitting around the fire pit or on top of the skate ramp, and in many other locations. Students will also come to our homes for barbeques and game nights. Again, we view this strong relationship with your son as imperative to facilitating a lasting change, and these are just some of the ways that we will get to know your son and build the positive relationship of trust with him. Family Therapy: We believe that your son’s personal growth and recovery will be greatly enhanced through the strong family component of our school. Families will receive weekly family therapy sessions over the phone and sessions in person, whenever the parents come out for a visit. These family therapy sessions will focus on better communication, parenting skills, vulnerable conversations between parents and sons, goal setting, etc. Outside of the family therapy cell, you will communicate with your son through an additional weekend call, video conferencing, and email. We expect parents to participate in family workshops every three months. Parents will have reading assignments and participate in family, couple, or group therapy. Al-Anon meetings can be a helpful resource that we encourage as well. Group Therapy: With the many years of experience you have had raising your son, we are sure you have become very aware of the powerful influence that peers can have in the life of a teenager, and in your son’s case—the powerful negative influence that his peers have had on him. Group therapy is an excellent tool for turning a peer group into a powerful positive influence in your son’s life. Our goal is to empower each child to have a voice and a place where they can all feel emotionally safe to be vulnerable with one another. In group therapy, each boy will have opportunities to share his stories and experiences with peers who can often relate to the things he has been going through and who are able to offer him acceptance and support. These daily groups will be led by Sam and Derek, as well as our substance abuse counselors. Substance Abuse/Recovery Work: Here at Crossroads Academy, we will not manipulate your son into telling us what we want to hear. Instead, we will give him the opportunity to experience the happiness that comes from success in the different program domains, thus lighting a fire of lasting change that will come from within. In addition to the substance abuse work being done in individual, family, and group therapy, your son will also receive three hours each week of chemical dependency (CD) work with our substance abuse counselors. We do not believe in a cookie cutter approach in dealing with the students at Crossroads. Each of the adolescents in this program is a diverse individual, and because of this, a certain approach may work better for one student, while a different approach may be needed for another. Our CD counselors will have your son work through three different models—the Stages of Change Model, a 12-Step Model, and the Seven Challenges Model. Depending on your son’s individual needs, the therapist and CD counselor may make additional recommendations. A very in-depth relapse prevention plan will be formulated before your child graduates from our school. Every facet of the program at Crossroads Academy is geared toward helping your son replace his previous addictive and unhealthy behaviors with a healthy and productive lifestyle. As your son experiences success in all three of our program’s domains: Therapy, Academics, and Recreation, we believe that he will begin gaining direction and purpose in his life. He will be getting back in touch with some core values through the influence of the program’s four guiding principles: Family, Integrity, Work, and Play. It is our hope that at the end of your son’s stay at Crossroads, he will determine on his own that the fulfillment of having healthy relationships with family and friends, the confidence and self-esteem that comes from having integrity and a strong work ethic, and the enjoyment and self-confidence that can result from wholesome recreation, free of mind-altering substances, will all out weigh the temporary pleasures he experienced with his past drug-using lifestyle. Summary: Individual Therapy Family Therapy Group Therapy Substance Abuse Counseling Relationship Based Experiential Based |
| Family Involvement: | We believe that your son’s personal growth and recovery will be greatly enhanced through the strong family component of our school. Families will receive weekly family therapy sessions over the phone and sessions in person, whenever the parents come out for a visit. These family therapy sessions will focus on better communication, parenting skills, vulnerable conversations between parents and sons, goal setting, etc. Outside of the family therapy cell, you will communicate with your son through an additional weekend call, video conferencing, and email. We expect parents to participate in family workshops every three months. Parents will have reading assignments and participate in family, couple, or group therapy. Al-Anon meetings can be a helpful resource that we encourage as well. |
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