Monday, April 15, 2013

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.