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    Who We Are

    Our students were in trouble at home, at school, and sometimes with the law...

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  • Decisions, Decisions

    Decisions, Decisions

    The decisions involved in selecting the right boarding school are never easy...

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  • Academics

    Academics

    Troubled teens who are academically stalled get a second chance at a first class education...

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  • Counseling

    Counseling

    A range of therapeutic resources helps students address their issues and better understand themselves and their behaviors...

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    Extracurricular

    Our students discover and rediscover a passion for sports, music and the arts with programs that recognize and nurture their talents and gifts...

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    Parent Resources

    To deal successfully with your teenager's problem behavior, you have to first understand it. We can help...

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Goals

The Family Foundation School is committed to helping students:

  • maximize their academic potential and complete a challenging curriculum by developing the concentration, study skills, and love of learning that will serve them in college and beyond;
  • develop themselves spiritually and emotionally while acquiring new coping strategies based on the 12-Step program of recovery;
  • grow and mature psychologically, using individual and group counseling to deal with the problem behaviors and developmental issues that brought them here;

and to help parents

  • strengthen the parenting skills they need to support their teenager and to repair and restore relationships between all family members.

Reflections On Who We Are

Repairing the Ties that Bind

Published: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 Before there was a Family Foundation School, there was a family devastated by alcoholism and restored by the 12 Steps of recovery. What the Steps did for them they wanted to do for others, and The Family Foundation School

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11th Step 'Happy Class'

Published: Friday, May 31, 2013 One of the most surprising and welcome trends we're seeing among teenagers these days is the use of mindfulness meditation to cope with the pressures of growing up in an increasingly stressful world. One high school

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