Northwest
Academy students are at risk of not graduating high school
because of emotional and behavioral challenges. Our students are bright, but
recently have become unmotivated, have given up on their healthy passions
such as sports, arts, and music, and are hindered by the conviction that
they simply "do not care" that their choices are allowing life to pass them
by.
Our students
typically have struggled with one or more of the following challenges:
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Low
self-esteem
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Family
conflicts
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Depression
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School truancy
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Academic
under-achievement or school failure
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Learning
difficulties
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Attentional
issues
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Inadequate
relationship skills
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Problematic
peer affiliations
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Sense of
entitlement
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Impulse
control
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Anger
management
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Oppositional
defiance
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Drug and/or
alcohol use