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Carolina Springs [website] Due West, SC US | |
| Phone: | 1-800-818-6228 |
| Ages: | 14-17 |
| Gender: | Separate boys and girls facilities |
| Description: | Carolina Springs Academy is a highly structured, co-educational boarding school that specializes in students who are underachieving due to their own environmental and behavioral choices. CSA offers parents an educational and developmental alternative that allows the child to escape from his/her self-limiting behaviors and get a fresh start. Founded in 1998, CSA has been a refreshing alternative for hundreds of families who deal with the challenges of parenting in an increasingly complicated world. |
| Director Name: | Jeni Salmi |
| Student Profile: | Angry, defiant, and rebellious students are appropriate for this program, students in the beginning stages of experimentation with substance abuse, are also appropriate. |
| Academics: | Carolina Springs Academy has an extremely progressive academic program. The academic program is accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and of Colleges and Universities. View the accreditation certificate. The curriculum is individualized and competency based, allowing students to work at his or her own pace and maximize the learning process. Students are not held back by other teens in the class, lesson plans, teachers' schedules, course offerings, or class availability. The students are afforded individual study as well as tutoring by certified teachers. It is possible to complete courses on an accelerated basis. Each student is assessed upon admission and then assisted in designing his or her specific course of study. Boys and girls study in separate environments in order to maximize the students' ability to succeed in his or her academic pursuit. |
| Activities: | All activities strive for a proper balance of recreation, exercise, learning, personal development and social opportunities. Most activities are held on or around the campus. Additional off campus activities are available to all students. Although boys and girls are on the same campus, the daily activities of boys and girls are kept separate. This allows the student to have a greater level of success without the distraction of the opposite gender. The student attends morning or afternoon sessions of school, daily group support sessions, physical fitness, and library time. Educational and emotional growth videos and motivational tapes are played daily. Local off-campus agencies offer weekly counseling sessions for alcohol and sexual abuse. A psychologist is available on campus five days a week and may be independently contracted by parents for private counseling sessions. Upper level students are also offered opportunities to participate in the CSA Leadership Program which consists on assisting staff with parent tours and mentoring students throughout the day. On campus activities include basketball, football, soccer, volleyball, softball, hiking, gardening & fishing. CSA also offers a full on-site equestrian program to trust level students. Other on campus activities include movies and popcorn, monthly birthday parties, crocheting, puzzles, board games, journal and letter writing, reading, drawing and painting. Trust level CSA students are offered a variety of off campus activities including choral performances, debate, roller and ice skating, dining out with local community members, fishing, golf, swimming, and other water sports. Occasional excursions are offered to nearby national forests, local high school and college sporting events, historical sites, popular beaches and theme parks. |
| Counseling: | NO counseling is available at the school, community resources can be accessed for additional support when needed. The school does offer support in the following ways: High standards exist. Inappropriate behavior is confronted, given consequences and redirected. Appropriate behavior is reinforced and rewarded. A merit system is used requiring each teen to earn their status and privileges through a standard program using a level system. Carolina Springs Academy offers all students and families the opportunity to participate in a highly impacting series of professional seminars. Premiere Educational Services has spent years developing this unique seminar process. Carolina Springs Academy is committed to working with the entire family, and has cooperated with Premier Educational Services in developing a series of highly effective seminars for both the parents and the child. The seminar process addresses specific issues such as: accountability, honesty, integrity, trust, choices, responsibility, anger and especially self-esteem. The early seminars are conducted with peers. Students will attend seminars with other students and parents will attend with other parents. Once both the parent and the child have completed these seminars individually, the remaining seminars will be conducted with the parent and child together. This reuniting of parent and child for seminars enables the family to work together through the rest of the seminar series. Parent/Child seminars are designed to assist each family in rebuilding and strengthening the family unit. Daily Personal Development and Emotional Growth Courses are an important part of the overall program. These courses intermittently utilize effective resources such as: educational and inspiring audio & video tapes, selective reading material, special workshops, and peer feedback sessions. Students evaluate and grade themselves on their own personal daily progress in several categories. Students may obtain assistance from other students and staff in this evaluation process, but the ultimate determinate for the greatest part of the students daily score comes from their own evaluation. |
| Campus: | Carolina Springs Academy is located one mile north of the town of Due West, SC, home of Erskine College in Abbeville County and twelve miles from the historic Abbeville, South Carolina. A tour of the Burt-Stark Mansion near downtown Abbeville reveals a portion of the rich historical importance of this small town. Tour guides share that the discussion leading to the decision made by Southern leaders to end the War Between the States was made in the parlor of the old mansion. The CSA physical facilities are situated on a beautiful campus that retains the quiet farmland atmosphere of an earlier era. Locals enjoy many outdoor sports including hunting numerous whitetail deer, wild turkeys, and rabbits commonly used to make Southern "Hash." Water sports abound in the numerous lakes and ponds of the region. Golf and tennis are popular sports among the many country clubs found within a one-half hour drive of the school. As one might imagine, the youth experience a mixture of the culture of the Old South and the rural culture common in American nostalgic art. It is placed on the low-lying foothills of the South Carolina Upstate region, a one-hour drive from the Greenville, Spartanburg Airport (GSP) and two-three hours from Atlanta, Georgia, depending on traffic. |
| Family Involvement: | Premier Educational Systems offers a three tiered, progressing seminar course; upon successful completion of each course, a more advanced course is available. These courses are designed to bring choices and joy to lives. The foundation of the three seminars are accountability, trust, empowerment, support and truth. These cornerstones are taught as the fundamental basics for creating effective and lasting change. The goal of Discovery, the first level in the series, is just that; discovering and learning things about oneself that may have been forgotten. The second level in the series, Focus, is presented in a way to provoke thought and enhance the basics taught in Discovery while embracing and solidifying new concepts. The final course of the series is Keys to Success (formerly Visions), living the changes made and internalizing the fundamentals taught. During the parents and family members participation in these courses, students will be participating in similar seminars at their school or facility. Paralleling the adult formats of Discovery and Focus, siblings and friends of the student in the school are invited to participate a combination of the two; the Youth Leadership Camp. These camps combine the lessons taught in Discovery and Focus with leadership building exercises designed to assist young adults in dealing with issues such as peer pressure, friends and drugs. Activities include camp fires, swimming, volley ball, basketball and highly effective low and high ropes course exercises. Parents and students are invited to attend seminars which specifically address issues within the family unit; communication, clarity, and the family value frame. The Parent Child seminars, as with the adult seminars, consist of three seminars; Parent Child 1, 2 & 3. These seminars are an integral part of the family healing process and must be attended to attain graduate status. |
| Length of Stay: | IS determined by the individual student, average length of stay is 12 to 18 months. |
| Philosophy: | teaching Respect, Honor, and Integrity in the traditions of the Old South. |
| Financial Assistance: | www.ccploans.com Visit this site for loan and financial assistance or contact Jeni for further information. |
| Alt Link: | Carolina Springs link (Alternate) |
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1-800-818-6228 | |
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