16th Edition Parent Empowerment Handbook Now Available

A Valuable Resource Guide For Parents Of Struggling Teens Needing Residential Placement

Bonners Ferry, Idaho (PRWEB) January 8, 2006 -- Lon Woodbury MA, President of Woodbury Reports Inc., and a Certified Educational Planner (CEP), announced that the 16th Edition of the Parent Empowerment Handbook ™, a valuable resource guide for parents of struggling teens, is now available for immediate shipping. This 286-page hardbound Handbook contains current information on the top private parent-choice residential schools and programs for struggling teens throughout the country, as well as a list of the leading Transport Agencies and Independent Educational Consultants who are available to help parents in their search.

The Handbook is designed to assist parents and professionals who are searching for a professional residential school or program for struggling teens. The inclusion of each school and program is based on the results of a survey of leading Independent Educational Consultants from across the country.

“Each year we send out a list of 500 private residential schools and programs that are parent-choice as opposed to those that work with referrals from courts or government agencies,” Woodbury explained. “This list asks leading Independent Educational Consultants to rate these schools and programs for safety and effectiveness by selecting positive, negative or not familiar with it, from the possible choices.”

Only schools and programs with a majority of positive comments and few or no negatives are selected for inclusion in the Handbook. “This year there are just over one-hundred schools and programs listed, which means the majority of consultants’ chose these schools and programs as having the best reputations for safety and effectiveness.”

The fact sheets on each school and program are updated regularly, and the Handbook includes visit reports and essays to help parents better understand the industry and how to make a good choice when residential placement is necessary.

“The Handbook fact sheet provides an unbiased snapshot of each school and program by asking identical questions of all those participating,” Woodbury said. “This fact sheet is specifically designed to help parents and professionals who are trying to compare the schools and programs.”

To order the Parent Empowerment Handbook ™ visit the Places For Struggling Teens ™ online store at http://www.strugglingteens/store/, order by phone 208-267-5550, or fax to 208-267-9127.

The Parent Empowerment Handbook ™, the monthly publication of The Woodbury Reports, Inc. Newsletter ™ and over 14,000 pages of information on the Places for Struggling Teens ™ website (www.strugglingteens.com), are accepted by parents and professionals in the industry as informal trade publications within the network of private parent-choice schools and programs. In order to provide the most current and accurate information possible, Woodbury Reports, Inc. strives to continually update the Places For Struggling Teens ™ website, the Parent Empowerment Handbook ™ and the Woodbury Reports, Inc. Newsletter ™.

Founded in 1989 in Bonners Ferry, ID, Woodbury Reports Inc., 208-267-5550, is an educational consulting practice whose mission is to focus on parent-choice resources and provide all possible information to parents and professionals considering out-of-home placements for at-risk children. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and numerous other newspapers across the country have written articles about Woodbury Reports, Inc. and interviewed Lon Woodbury on a wide-range of topics related to the private parent-choice industry.

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