Woodbury Reports 5th Annual Northwest Get Together

Woodbury Reports, Inc., a national educationl consulting firm will host its fifth annual Northwest Get Together from at 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Friday, May 21 at the Naples Inn.

For the last 21 years, the Bonners Ferry-based business has internationally published the unofficial trade journal on programs helping to empower parents of teens struggling with a variety of emotional, behavioral, academic or family issues.

Woodberry is an affiliate member of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP), Commissioner with the American Institute of Certified Education Planners (AICEP), and a national speaker at conferences and on the radio.

In addition, Woodberry, a North Idaho native, is the former President of the Chamber of Commerce in Bonners Ferry, a charter member of the Rotary Club and was State Vice President of the Washington Jaycee’s. He is also a member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association and currently chairs its Special Needs Committee.

   This year’s speakers at the Northwest Get Together will include Scott Victorson, a physical education teacher at Northwest Academy in Naples, Idaho, who will speak on re-discovering new and old healthy habits for teenagers.

Dr. Barbara Cunningham, guidance counselor at Summit Preparatory School in Kalispell, Mont., who’s presentation on intellectually gifted teens is titled, “Rethinking the Gifted Underachiever.”

Also speaking are Thompson, co-founder of Spokane Mountain, a new substance abuse program for young adults, and his partner L. Jay Mitchell, founder of SUWS wilderness program in Idaho, Alldredge Academy in West Virginia and Greenbrier Academy in West Virginia, will engage participants experientially with music as metaphors as a conduit to pass through new spiritual thresholds.

 Lon Woodbury, founder and host of the Northwest Get Together, started Woodbury Reports in 1989.  In 1995, StrugglingTeens.com went online as the original website for information about the schools and programs available for troubled teens and he has traveled internationally to review schools and programs.

 For more information call 208-267-5550.