Family Visits

Visits

Home visits provide an important opportunity for our students to practice their newly learned skills in a setting other than NSI Academy and to stay connected with family. Visits also provide time for work on any problems that need to be addressed within the family, while the NSI Academy team is available for support and assistance, in order for reunification (when that is the plan) to be successful. We’ve guided hundreds of families through some difficult times and will make every reasonable effort to help our students and their families work through problems. Home visits provide the ideal opportunity for some of this work. A current home visit schedule is attached.

In many cases, home visits are possible as soon as thirty days from admission. These visits take a variety of forms. Our most current home visit schedule is enclosed. Please keep in mind that this schedule can change from time to time based on scheduling of students’ activities. In most instances, NSI Academy provides the transportation to and from home on the scheduled weekends. There may be times when we will need to ask parents to help with transportation, usually meeting our transportation team a short distance from the student’s home visit destination. In many cases, one of our staff will stay in the area to assist with any issues or concerns that the student and/or family may encounter during the visit.

On-campus visits are scheduled with your child’s Treatment Coordinator. Please call the Treatment Coordinator as early as possible to arrange visits, preferably before the Wednesday prior to the visit, so that visits can be discussed at the Area Meetings each Wednesday. Regular on-campus visits are planned for Parent Meeting evenings (currently Thursdays) or during home visit weekends. We will work with families to arrange special visits if needed at other times, but because of students’ busy schedules, those visits may be more difficult to arrange. We do our best to balance visitation needs while minimizing disruption to students’ other activities and programming.

It is the hope of the NSI Academy treatment team that visits between students and their families are positive. However, encountering at least minor problems during visits is certainly not uncommon. We may at times ask that visits be postponed based on the students’ current needs and behaviors. The Treatment Coordinator will discuss those issues with you if the need arises. As suggested earlier, we approach these experiences as learning opportunities for both the student and their family. It’s important for you to know that we coNSI Academyder visits to be as much a part of the student’s program as their time on campus. Students learn that their behaviors, both positive and negative, will reflect back onto their privileges and accountabilities in the NSI Academy program.

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