Independent school advising and referral services - Special needs and at-risk therapeutic placement
Solutions and Support For At-Risk Adolescents And Their Families
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed --Thomas Moore
Worried About Your Teenager?
Teenagers have dreams, hearts and minds. They are a work in progress.
I honor that.
Family members and professionals have long recognized that successfully supporting individuals with complex needs can pose a significant challenge to their skills.
Dore Frances, M.A. offers solutions and support to at-risk adolescents and their families. Dore helps families and their students choose and apply to addiction treatment centers, aftercare/next step transition programs, Christian based schools, clinically based programs, college preparatory boarding schools, eating disorder programs, emotional growth boarding schools as well as boarding schools for students who learn differently and for students who have behavioral and emotional needs. She has been empowering students with solutions and support and helping them make good decisions since 1987 as an Advocate.
In 2001 she founded Horizon Family Solutions, LLC, an educational consulting firm.
She travels extensively many times a year, visiting outdoor adventure programs, pre-teen schools, residential treatment centers and therapeutic facilities to ensure that she knows the campuses and their staff in order to help families make appropriate choices. In the past four years alone, Dore has toured over 125 therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness camps, young adult transition programs and addiction treatment facilities.
Dore has helped thousands of families and their students make good decisions that have had a positive change and positive long term impact on their lives. Dore is committed to each and every family she assists. She uses a confidential online student profile, analyzes transcripts and testing, consults with other professionals when necessary and helps families determine the appropriate and best suited placement. Of course all information is kept strictly confidential.
Dore makes her home in Bend, Oregon where she has lived since 2004.
She is actively writing a book - One Size Does Not Fit All.
Join me on facebook
