Who We Help
We specialize in helping young women from ages 12 through 18 who are struggling with the results of complex trauma and attachment related issues including diagnosed Reactive Attachment Disorder. These struggles and disorders are very common with adopted children or children residing in foster care. It is not unusual for many of these young women to manifest very difficult behaviors that severely impact those around them. These difficult behaviors often result in improper diagnoses and treatment plans. These behaviors might include:
- Abnormal and unpredictable anger
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Withdrawl
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Oppositional-Defiant Disorder
- Self-Harm
- Suicide Ideation and Attempts
- Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- Sexual Promiscuity
While we are experts at managing and treating these behaviors, our program is designed to address the complex trauma and attachment issues that motivate or underlie these behaviors. As we treat the underlying trauma and attachment issues, there is almost universally an amelioration of the troubling behaviors. In fact, a focus on the behaviors without addressing the underlying causes would be tantamount to inflicting additional trauma and merely compound a young woman’s struggles.
Zion Hills Academy accepts California Adoption Assistance Program Funding (AAP). Our sister program, Havenwood Academy, is one of few to accept Medicaid insurance. We also work with IEP funds, insurance, and private pay. Our admissions team helps you understand and secure these funding sources to get the help your daughter needs.
If you believe your daughter may be right for our program and have access to any of these funding sources or would like to determine if you might have access, please fill out our online assessment so our admissions team can begin their work with you today!
Our Facility
Our young women reside in houses that offer a more intimate and home-like environment. To simulate real life situations, our young women, after their morning routines, travel to a central school facility where they attend school and participate in therapy and other activities.
Who We Help
We specialize in helping young women from ages 12 through 18 who are struggling with the results of complex trauma and attachment related issues including diagnosed Reactive Attachment Disorder. These struggles and disorders are very common with adopted children or children residing in foster care. It is not unusual for many of these young women to manifest very difficult behaviors that severely impact those around them. These difficult behaviors often result in improper diagnoses and treatment plans. These behaviors might include:
- Abnormal and unpredictable anger
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Withdrawl
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Oppositional-Defiant Disorder
- Self-Harm
- Suicide Ideation and Attempts
- Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- Sexual Promiscuity
While we are experts at managing and treating these behaviors, our program is designed to address the complex trauma and attachment issues that motivate or underlie these behaviors. As we treat the underlying trauma and attachment issues, there is almost universally an amelioration of the troubling behaviors. In fact, a focus on the behaviors without addressing the underlying causes would be tantamount to inflicting additional trauma and merely compound a young woman’s struggles.
Zion Hills Academy accepts California Adoption Assistance Program Funding (AAP). Our sister program, Havenwood Academy, is one of few to accept Medicaid insurance. We also work with IEP funds, insurance, and private pay. Our admissions team helps you understand and secure these funding sources to get the help your daughter needs.
If you believe your daughter may be right for our program and have access to any of these funding sources or would like to determine if you might have access, please fill out our online assessment so our admissions team can begin their work with you today!
Our Facility
Our young women reside in houses that offer a more intimate and home-like environment. To simulate real life situations, our young women, after their morning routines, travel to a central school facility where they attend school and participate in therapy and other activities.
Chase was very fortunate to start in this industry as a struggling 17 year old kid looking for a mentor and something to be passionate about. Wilderness therapy was Chase’s first stop in this industry and was truly a transcendental experience for him. Chase has an enormous love for this line of work and the power that it has in creating change in everyone involved. Chase’s biggest belief is the power a mentor, strong, healthy relationships, and accountability can have on anyone, especially youth. Taking a very relational approach to his work, Chase has always been very relatable to the students he works with. Being able to understand and relate to a vast variety of the same struggles as a lot of the students he works with has been able to help him continue to grow, learn, and teach. Chase believes that with great rapport and trust, he can use his experience to continue to coach and train new staff, and has the ability to find those staff with the passion for this industry, and help them grow. His love and passion can be felt the moment you talk with Chase about this industry and he passes that on to others he works with. In his spare time you will find Chase cheering for the Eagles, Yankees, and Mavericks, hanging out with his brother, learning more about Eastern Psychology, and continuing to grow and learn.
Eric Allred was born and raised in Rigby, Idaho. He grew up on a family farm where he learned the value of work. He graduated from Rigby High School and attended Rick’s College, now known as BYU-Idaho. He received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Utah State University, received a master’s degree in organizational behavior and human relations from the University of Phoenix and a second master’s degree in marital and family therapy from Phillips Graduate Institute. Eric has been involved in Rotary and was president of a local Rotary Club. He enjoys being with his family and doing outdoor activities such as fly fishing.
