Susan Hardy Moves to Stone Mountain School to Become Executive Director
Hardy Leaves Post as Executive Director at Adirondack Leadership Expeditions, Continues on in Aspen Education Group Family of Programs
Black Mountain, NC (PRWEB) June 6, 2007
Susan Hardy, M. Ed., has accepted the position of executive director for Stone Mountain School in Black Mountain, North Carolina, effective July 1, 2007. Stone Mountain School, a member of Aspen Education Group, is a therapeutic boarding school for boys ages 11-16 with learning differences or disabilities, attention deficit disorder (ADD), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Hardy currently serves as executive director of Adirondack Leadership Expeditions, also a program of Aspen Education Group, in Upstate New York. More information about Adirondack's new executive director will be forthcoming. The current executive director for Stone Mountain School, Sam Moore, will be continuing on in the role of admissions director.
"We are thrilled to welcome Susan to the Stone Mountain School family," said Bo Turner, senior vice president for residential schools and programs at Aspen. "She is highly talented and possesses the innovation and determination to continue this program's success. Her dedication to her students and their families, and the ease with which she builds positive relationships with key constituencies will be of great value to the SMS family."
Hardy brings to this position 17 years of experience in the therapeutic education industry, the last two of which have been at Adirondack. Her previous positions within the industry have included regional administrator and director of education in which she successfully worked toward earning Joint Commission and academic accreditations. She earned her masters of education from Vanderbilt University and her bachelors of science in education from the University of Illinois.
Stone Mountain School is located on a 100-acre mountain setting campus in western North Carolina. Stone Mountain School offers numerous outdoor activities that have both a recreation and therapeutic benefit. The beautiful yet rustic surrounding serves as an experiential classroom where the natural and logical consequences of daily living are clear and understood. The program offers group therapy and academics through an adventure-based experiential model. Stone Mountain School creates a caring yet highly structured community by setting living and academic group size limits. Staff teach basic living skills while implementing the Level System of Personal Development that is at the core of assisting young men toward responsible, self-managing behavior.
Stone Mountain School is a proud member of Aspen Education Group, the nation's largest and most comprehensive network of therapeutic schools and programs. Aspen Education Group offers professionals and families the opportunity to choose from a variety of therapeutic settings in order to best meet a student's unique academic and emotional needs. Aspen Education Group has been profiled by major news and television organizations around the world, including U. S. News and World Report, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and People magazine, as well as on CNN, ABC's 20/20 and Good Morning America, NBC's The Today Show and Dateline NBC, National Public Radio and the syndicated television show Dr. Phil. Aspen is a division of CRC Health Group, the nation's largest chemical dependency and related behavioral health organization. For more information about Aspen Education Group, visit www. aspeneducation. com or call (888) 972-7736. For more information about Stone Mountain School, visit www. stonemountainschool. com or call (888) 631-5994.
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