I can't sing enough praises about alphabet academy and the teachers. I love the owner Shanna, and…read moreteachers Brandi, and Devi. They LOVE children. To know your kids are in a safe place, being nurtured and well loved while at work is the most comforting feeling. My son is now in 1st grade and started there when he was one. My daughter was lucky enough to get in as an infant after my maternity leave and is almost five. They have raised my children along side me. They serve breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack which is huge in my day to day life to not have to pack this for them. They have a nice daily routine with working learning, crafts, naps and play time. I am so very thankful I found Shanna and her team. Hope you get a spot here if you are looking for childcare. You will be blessed to have this team of ladies care for your child.

This place should be closed. Steer clear!!…read more To date AAW is responsible for interfering in custodial matters. Releasing a child to a parent who isn't signed on a contract while failing to answer repeated calls from the contracted parent. Resulting in child being whisked way for a week to unknown destination or knowing the well being of my child. AAW further failed to even own up or apologize. Questionable billing statements and contrived fees. Poor food quality. Violating Hippa law, discussing billing matters with people other than the contracted parties I have found the owner and daughter to be repeatedly dishonest. I was called to pick my son up due to throwing up. They didn't tell me he had been pushed and hit the back of his head Then started throwing up. Lastly, We showed up at opening to find the owner passed out on the floor. Nice! They may be cheap but as it goes, you sure do get what you pay for. I also discovered I'd been over paying totaling $880.00 in child care fees to which the owner, Shana naturally refuses to refund.

Quite simply, Shannon is a godsend. In and out of therapy over the years, I've learned what makes…read morea good therapist and a very bad one. I can say with certainty that Shannon is a GREAT one. So how fortuitous it was that I found her when I had recently reached my own personal rock bottom and was in extraordinary emotional pain. Having recently moved to Bend, far from family and friends, I don't know how I could've gotten through this without her. I found Shannon to be instantly warm, kind and non-judgemental. Her empathy and compassion are instantly apparent, but she also worked to give me attainable goals to keep me tracking for success and help pull me out of a deep dark hole. I just don't know what I would've done without her. And while I'm OVERJOYED to state that I have, after a year long challenge, come out of that place, I am sad I won't be seeing Shannon regularly. It is not without her help that I have made it to the other side of my battle. Thank you, Shannon! I highly, highly recommend her. Seen for: private counseling & couples counseling.

Shannon is an outstanding therapist. She is attentive, responsive, friendly, and most importantly,…read morehighly effective! My wife and I have been blessed to work with her for several months now. Our marriage just keeps getting better with these weekly sessions. She also works with our family members in group sessions that help to deepen our relationships with our children. We love her. You will too.

Very organized, trusting, friendly with the professional understanding of the treatment given to…read moreyou. Very supportive, relaxed atmosphere with biweekly consults of how things are going, questions answered. Highly recommend for TMS treatment....

Honestly the best treatment for depression with competent professionals, and no judgement. The…read morestaff is caring and supportive. If you have tried other treatments, and found them lacking, try TMS.

This is a great school. Godly people, outstanding curriculum awesome facilities. If you are…read morelooking for an school that will teach your kids about God and moral as well as providing a superior education Morning Star is for you.

If you want your child to have a holistic screen free education, this is the place. There is more…read moreevidence coming out at the harm that screens are doing to children. And AI is a threat to the intelligence of children. This will be our first year at the Wadorf School of Bend. We attended two other Waldorfs previously. The teachers and staff so far have been very nice. The class sizes are small, especially from 5th grade through middle school. Your child will get one on one attention and the best holistic education possible. They are offering 50% off for middle school right now and it's a great time to get in. We tried public school for middle school and regret it. Our son is looking forward to going back to Waldorf! The tuition may seem expensive, but they do have financial assistance. And do whatever you can to get your child into here. 2nd job, skip the fancy vacations or car. Make Waldorf a priority and you will not regret it.

We love this school! Not only does our child have a sweet, kind, and nurturing learning…read moreenvironment, but the parents are also a real community. We can make decisions together as a team about what is best for our children and what they are being taught in the classroom. You get a choice with waldorf and its 100% worth paying for.

The school was more concerned with their reputation on tests and online reviews than service,…read morecommunity/ kindness. We are glad to have left as we entered year two, on seeing just how gross staff became with the new leadership, and wish we had trusted ourselves to have done so sooner. There were students using the N* word, saying they were black inside (despite having blond hair and blue eyes... saying it was the same as being trans...) The founder had 5 meetings with this student's parents, due to parents complaining along lines of sexuality. The student was saying to girls, "I am going to stuff myself inside of you" or "You are too ugly to date me." He was saying he would kill himself if a girl didn't get back together with him. Teachers said he was just coming into his sexuality and weren't concerned. He was popular. He was saying the other boys watched porn (to upset the girls and move the focus from his watching porn... as he was getting in trouble for this.) He'd then say the other boys were gay and that is why they had a sleepover. He would use his sway with the girls and they would yell at the boys and try to force their coming out (as if it was an afterschool special and they, the girls, had the right answers for the boys who were being targeted in this way.) As another parent said, "It is the victims who end up leaving, not the ones causing the disrespect." Kids and families did leave due to this, as it showed disrespect and modeled this student could use his popularity as power, to get them in trouble and also to define their sexuality before they were ready to/ aware. The Learning Specialist would use these rumors and try to find out the truth, too, not allowing for respect for a process of kids coming into sexuality and gender in a light and respectful way. Just like students, who were using force & coercion, language / actions that were violations, the Learning Specialist would force kids to come out, when there wasn't trust or respect in the relationship to begin with. As always, there are exceptions of staff who are kind and credible, though they largely left or were powerless, if they did stay. The founder/ director of the school was counseling students out, with the Learning Specialist. She would test kids on entering/ being admitted and have a meeting 30 days in, saying the school didn't have resources to help with reading and math. Abilities don't come on board in math and reading until 9 or 10 years old, for many. Charter schools receive the same funds as public. We came in and didn't know how many parents had struggled with this previous to us, though other parents talked about the PE teacher calling the kids retards, and many staff being unprofessional, such as the guidance counselor, and Learning Specialist occupying a discipline role that kept them from listening or guiding kids, scholastically and emotionally. The district and former director had obstructed progress over a new 504 for us with scheduling filibusters. My child came in with a 504 and they said it wouldn't be followed. In it, it said not to test him with new proctors, at the start. They did anyway and wouldn't put a new 504 in place for his heart condition. I finally said we would give it up as it angered the teacher to make accommodations. He said my child needed to be toughened up and was a brat. The district said our existing 504 was non-existent. We found out many parents had filed complaints and lawsuits. (The founding director was asked to leave by her board finally, after our first year there. She told the school she was leaving due to a family death.) Our doctor wrote us a note to allow my child to try having a service pup that summer. He sometimes has stopped breathing and this was a new solution. I came a week early and talked to the teacher and new director. They didn't listen, didn't open the letter sent by his doctor. I dropped my child off for the first day and had a call in 10 minutes. The school counselor had grabbed my child by the collar of his jacket and forcefully removed him with other staff. The director yelled at me, saying I was manipulative. She thought that she could refuse the services by ignoring my meeting with her and the doctor's note. I asked her to read the email sent to her and the teacher and she refused, screaming on the first day of school in the entryway. The Dept. of Ed. called her and coached her through our rights, but it was a moment of embarrassment and shock and my child decided to forego any kinds of services, based on this experience and our experience the previous year with trying to honor or make a 504. It had been an endless filibuster and an experience of absence being more apparent than presence. The founding director had tried to ridicule me to dismiss me. I found out how many people she has done this to, how many families she has coached out... that the other families in our class remembered. I now don't take it personally and feel we learned What Not To Be.

My child started out at a traditional middle school and he floundered. We found out later that he…read morehas ADHD and it tends to come out in middle school. We switched schools and he was so much happier. The smaller class size suited him. All the teachers and staff know him and they go out of their way for our family and other families as well. The director is kind and very open. My son is now in eighth grade and I'm going to miss this school tremendously. Thanks to Bend International School, he has learned the tools to deal with his ADHD, become a kind person and is ready for high school.

My experience at Focus was the most pleasurable PT I have been too. Cristin my therapist was very…read morecompetent, kind and helped me recover from a back injury. I like the fact that I saw the same therapist for every visit and the environment was private and one on one. Hayden and all of the girls at the front desk were happy, nice and helpful.

Lisa Flexner is the best you can get! She has helped me with my scoliosis and had done more for me…read morethen any other medical procedures I have tried. She has adjusted my daily workout schedule to incorporate my retraining of my body how to move and breathe. So thankful!

This school was a safe space for my daughter to move to after being at a school she felt unsafe in…read more We've been here for a year and a half, and she's never once complained about being unsafe or feeling scared, which was a huge problem at her previous school. Beyond the emotional support and safety, she is enjoying the freedom to choose her learning and is excelling in her knowledge and understanding of the world! I'm forever grateful for this safe space for my daughter.