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SafePassage – Uncle Guido

It has come to my attention that some Educational Consultants are taking the initiative to help parents figure out how to manage a transport for an at-risk adolescent themselves instead of referring parents to seek the assistance of a professional transport company. When I posed the question why, I was told that the programs and...

SafePassage – The Brain

Recently I shared a cab with Dr. Sandy Newes, PhD.; we talked about business, mutual friends and families and her work with Q & A Associates. Sandy and I were heading to IECA Chicago where she and Steve Sawyer LCSW, CSAC, New Vision Wilderness, were presenting some of their research on Brain-Based Therapy and Advanced...

SafePassage – Dr. John Ratey MD

A few weeks ago I attended the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs Annual Conference in Irvine, CA where keynote speaker Dr. John J. Ratey, an Associate Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School discussed his research linking exercise to brain power. During the keynote address Dr. Ratey also introduced his latest book: Spark: The...

SafePassage – Ron Clark

Nine-hundred of my closest friends and I had lunch with Ron Clark at the Independent Educational Consultants Association National Conference in Atlanta a few weeks ago. Ron Clark, who is the recipient of the 2000 Disney Teacher of the Year; two-time New York Times best-selling author; founder of the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta and...

SafePassage – Peer What?

I nearly choked on my coffee as I heard the phrase peer massage roll off the lips of Greta VanSusteren Fox News anchor this morning. “Peer, what?” I asked her as my mind flashed to an assembly of out-of-control adolescents trying to master this technique. Ok, I’m not trying to offend any of my colleagues...
SafePassage - Are You Interested in Saving a Life?

SafePassage – Are You Interested in Saving a Life?

“His father travels and I work full time; he failed his drug test  and I found all kinds of drug paraphernalia in his room and when I asked him about what I found he told me to mind my own business. His father got him a bed at Peachford but he is in Europe so...