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Oxbow Academy
What Is Oxbow Academy?
Oxbow Academy is a residential treatment center catering to boys, aged 13-17. It currently has two dormitories, which can accommodate at most 24 young boys. It also has equine and classroom facilities within the complex. The center was designed to provide an educational, therapeutic, and safe experience for its residents. It is for boys who have been found to engage in sexually inappropriate behaviors and who are struggling with self-injurious behavior, social incompetence, adoption issues, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and other psychological dilemmas. Offering a strength-based and holistic treatment approach, the center is conveniently located in a rural center in the state of Utah.
When a young boy is referred to Oxbow Academy, a 90-day assessment program is immediately undertaken to determine if the boy pose a higher risk with his sexually inappropriate behaviors. There are cautionary behaviors, which need to be assessed seriously so that illegal and/or red flag behaviors will be ruled out. Common cautionary or yellow flag behaviors include sexual anxiety/preoccupation; pornographic interest; violent pornography, child pornography or bestiality; promiscuity/sexual intercourse; obscenities/sexually aggressive themes; sexual graffiti; violation of other people’s body space; embarrassment of other individuals with sexual themes; pants down/pulling skirts up; single occurrence of exposing, peeping with peers; obscene and mooning gestures; and masturbation to underwear.
Red flag behaviors require specialized evaluation because a boy can have multiple red flag/yellow flag behaviors which include public masturbation; humiliation/degradation of self or other people with sexual themes; trying to expose other individual’s genitals; extreme preoccupation with aggressive pornography; sexually explicit communication with younger children; sexual harassment, exhibitionism, frottage, voyeurism, and obscene phone calls; grabbing genitals without permission; written or verbal sexual threats; sexual contact with a younger relative, sibling, or neighbor; forced sexual contact; forced penetration; bestiality; and sending pornographic pictures of self or other people through electronic devices like cell phone.
The boys are usually referred by therapists, professional consultant, their families, or other programs. Each student undergoes a comprehensive ninety-day assessment to evaluate his case and recommend treatment.
Oxbow Academy Program
The Oxbow Academy provides clinical services, which help each boy, realize, and deal with social, emotional, and behavioral problems, which contribute, to his sexual dilemmas. It utilizes an experiential model, which emphasizes family reunification, empathy, accountability, and honesty. Each student has weekly group, family, and individual sex-specific therapy. Horticulture, drama, art, music, horsemanship, and equine therapy are also part of the therapeutic program.
The residential program provides particular safety considerations in order to protect all boys in terms of daily living policies, staffing, and physical design. Each student is encouraged to realize his purpose in life, excel in play and work, and become a self-agent to create a happy, healthy life.
The experiential therapy offers deliberate structured academic, residential, and clinical approach. Residential staff, teachers, and clinicians are all part of the boy’s treatment team. Experiential activities like academic abilities and interests, drama, music, art, horsemanship, and equine therapy are offered to the student.
Parents are also encouraged to participate so that not only the boy becomes healed but the family as well. They must help their boys to learn to accept responsibility for their attitudes and realize their need for treatment. Each family must be committed to help their sons by finishing therapy assignments, and joining the family therapeutic sessions weekly.
- Oxbow Academy(435)436-9460
- Erin Nester – Admissions(435)469-0683
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Rescue Youth is committed to providing a directory that is accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive. All information provided is considered accurate as of the date indicated for each business record. Users of this Directory are advised that this information is provided as a general reference only. Rescue Youth assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained herein, and do not assume any liability resulting from errors or omissions. Inclusion or omission of business or organization is not a comment on its quality. Inclusion of a company or organization on the Rescue Youth Website does not constitute endorsement, or recommendations of their products or services.Most of the programs listed on this website are not regulated by the federal government, and many are not subject to state licensing or monitoring as mental health or educational facilities, either. A 2007 Report to Congress by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found cases involving serious abuse and neglect at some of these programs. Many programs advertise on the Internet and through other media, making claims about staff credentials, the level of treatment a participant will receive, program accreditation, education credit transfers, success rates, and endorsements by educational consultants. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, cautions that before you enroll a youngster in a private residential treatment program, check it out: ask questions; ask for proof or support for claims about staff credentials, program accreditation, and endorsements; do a site visit; and get all policies and promises in writing. Click here for questions to ask before you enroll your child in any program.
Originally posted 2012-03-12 10:38:09.
