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| Why Wohali?
Wohali Academy, Inc. offers many specialized services including:
- Small classroom setting
- Healthy problem solving
- State curriculum standards
- Leadership & Resiliency Program for at-risk adolescents
- PLATO– high school credit recovery
- Therapeutic learning experience
- Structured environment
- Bullying prevention program
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| Eligibility
At the time of enrollment to Wohali Academy, the student must live in Greenville County. The school’s psycho-educational model is most appropriate for youth (from grades K-5—12th grade with IQ 65 or higher) who persistently demonstrate one or more the following behaviors:
- Student threatens the safety of themselves or others.
- Evidence the student cannot be successfully maintained in a regular school setting.
- Student whose severity of behavior is persistent in spite of continued interventions.
- Student’s condition has improved at another more restrictive or specialized placement to the point that a step down placement to a therapeutic school is appropriate.
- Student has a history of substance abuse and/or dependency.
- Chronic running away accompanied by self-endangering tendencies.
- Highly impulsive/explosive behaviors.
- Depression and/or severe mood and thought disorders.
- Involvement in or obsessive thoughts of inappropriate sexual behaviors.
- Severe impairment in organization skills, ability to complete school assignments, ability to focus and concentrate resulting in the inability to take advantage of the school environment.
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