Blog on The Pinnacle Schools Complaints

"Since I left wonderful Pinnacle Schools, so many wonderful things have happened in my life."

The Pinnacle Schools shares top complaints from parents and teens..

 In a recent survey top five teen complaints were identified.

1. Comparisons - making a comparison between their own teen and another.
   "I hate it when my dad is always telling me he wishes I could be like my friend Mark."
2. Lack of praise.
   "Even when I'm busting my butt my parents tell me I'm lazy. I really am trying my hardest."
3. Being out if touch with fashion or music.
   "I like what I like and it's not my parents style. Fine, I don't like 80's music either.
4. Parents being overprotective or overly strict.
   "I know they are trying to help me but I need to live my own life."
5. Fighting in the home, between parents or parent and another family member.
   "I can't stand the screaming" 

Pinnacle Schools Elk River is a Therapeutic Intervention Program. The program offers teens an their parents assessment, diagnostic, educational and treatments options at the main camp. The length of the programs depends on each child's individual needs and ranges from 8 to 52 weeks.
 

Elk River Academy is an Individualized Transitional Therapeutic School that allows teens to stay as long as a year.


Elk River Healthy Lifestyles - This is a Teen Weight Management Program dedicated to teaching positive behaviors and nutritional information to help increase self-esteem.
Alina Reviews The Pinnacle Schools Elk River


"Since I left wonderful Elk River so many wonderful things have happened in my life. Today I have a great apartment and three roommates who I get along with very well as well as a new job with City Year. To say I am excited about my life would be an understatement. Everyone of you will always have a special place in my heart and I miss you so much. Soon I will send you a picture of my new smile without braces and will try to keep you updated on my progress."

Alina 

Talking to Your Kids About Drugs

You are the first line of defense for your kids against drug and alcohol abuse. The best thing that you can do for your children is to give them all of the advice that they need before they get into a situation that is risky or dangerous.

When your kids don’t feel like they are at ease talking to you, they are going to talk to someone else. That someone else may be someone who isn’t well versed on drugs, who would like to see them get into drugs, or who would help them to experiment with things that are not going to be good for them.

The best way to prevent your kids from testing drugs is to give them the preparation that they need and deserve from you well prior to the time that it might be a consideration.

Depending on the age of your child, use age appropriate materials that they can understand. Begin at age five or six which is not so young when you think about the fact that many young children are exposed to older kids on the bus. They need to know that taking candy or pills or other things from older children or from teens isn’t an activity that they should be doing.

Explaining in a way that they can understand what might happen and why you want them to be prepared is simply good sense. Arming your child to deal with the things that may come their way when you are not with them is far better than allowing them to be blind to the hazards that are out there.

A wide range of books are available today to help you if you have problems speaking to your kids about drugs and alcohol. Finding the right materials which are appropriate to their age group means looking for several different types of material for each child. Their needs and their understanding will be different at age five than at age eight, but both children need to be equally prepared to live a healthier and happier life.

The Purpose for The Pinnacle Schools

Some dedicated professionals first opened TPS (The Pinnacle Schools) during 2005. They wanted to provide affordable and effective reliable services, to problem teenagers, along with their families. The programs provided by The Pinnacle Schools use assessments to develop the right treatment for trouble teens.

This started as just one outdoor program in 2005 to provide therapeutic help to at-risk teenagers. It has now grown and expanded into four distinct and separate programs and each one the programs is designed to help the unique needs of each teenager, along with the teen's family.

The Elk River Treatment Program is a program for therapeutic intervention to assess, diagnose, educate and treat troubled kids conducted on the base campus. The length of the programs will vary depending on the teenager's needs, but they typically last from 8 to 52 weeks.

The Elk River Academy is a school dedicated to individualized transitional therapy that offers flexible schedules of treatment up to a year.

The Elk River Healthy Lifestyles is a program focused on teen weight management. The staff educates the kids on positive behaviors and nutrition, and helps them increase their self-esteem.

The Huntsville Campus of the Pinnacle Schools is a private high school held year round located in Huntsville, Alabama.

The programs at TPS (The Pinnacle Schools) offer such things as assessment, diagnostic, intervention and education assistance to at-risk teenagers, who are 12 to 18 years of age, and also to their family members. These programs are designed using medical models and include physician oversight of medications, and also medical and nursing care available 24 hours a day. The TPS professional referral services and staff doctors work together prescribe and watch over your teen's medications. The Pinnacle Schools will not alter the child's medication in any way without consulting the parents first and also the therapist helping the child.

It is essential to educate the child. We will not leave any child behind educationally, if we can at all help it, and we apply this belief in our teen resident programs for treatment. TPS is a pioneer in the field of comprehensive academics held in a residential short-term facility, and due to the stay length being flexible, the students are able to finish on a quarterly, semestral, or yearly basis. The grades your child earns during treatment, more than likely, will be transferable to either his or her high school or university. The approach of combining psychological and medical therapies with education is the only way to guarantee success for long term. The TPA academic administrator closely works with counselors, kids, and parents to come up with a specific study program geared to the special needs of each student, along with maintaining a safe environment for learning. This will also build the child's self-esteem, which further leads to school success. We have courses suitable for students from grade 6 to grade 12.