Lon Woodbury
President, Publisher

Lon Woodbury is an educational consultant who has worked with parent choice, private pay Schools and Programs for struggling teens since 1984.  Prior to that, he taught in the public schools and was involved in public policy working for the U.S. Senate and for the Executive office of the President.  He received his B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Idaho.  He offers a nationwide referral service for parents of adolescents with behavioral and emotional problems, writes an education newsletter, Places For Struggling Teens Newsletter™, publishes the Parent Empowerment Handbook™: a Resource Guide for Parents of Struggling Teens as part of the results of his research into which schools and programs of quality are available for the child who is making poor decisions, and the publishes the website Places For Strugglingteens.com™, to provide parents and professionals with empowering information.

Lon also publishes RuralNorthwest.Com as a news resource on the internet with information on the five northern counties of Idaho.

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Denise Woodbury, JD
Legal Department

Bio & Picture coming soon...

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Kristie Henley
Assistant Director

Kristie Henley is the daughter of Woodbury Reports, Inc. publisher Lon Woodbury and his wife Denise, and has worked for Woodbury Reports, Inc. as an intern, since 1999. Kristie graduated from the Explorations Wilderness Assessment Course in 1993, and Mission Mountain School in 1994, both in Montana. She has written articles for The Woodbury Reports Newsletter™ based on her experiences, has visited schools/programs with her dad and alone, has attended IECA Conferences, has been editor of the directory, The Parent Empowerment Handbook™ for the last several years, is co-editor of the Woodbury Reports Newsletter™ (online and print) and is the advertising/ web contact. Kristie is also enrolled as a college student. Her presence at Woodbury Reports, Inc. is a demonstration of the positive relationship that has evolved since she has returned from the above mentioned programs.

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Loi Eberle, MA, IECA 
Educational Consultant

Loi has done educational consulting on an international basis, with Lon Woodbury, since 1998, while also being editor of the "Woodbury Reports," a monthly newsletter. In the spring of 2004 she chose to devote herself full-time to educational consulting and work out of her home-office, as a Woodbury Reports associate. She has a BS in Communications and an MA in Secondary Education with doctoral work in Educational Psychology. Before joining the Woodbury Reports staff she taught Journalism at Rocky Mountain Academy and was Student advisor/editor for their "Rocky Mountain Times," a newspaper that covered CEDU's three emotional growth boarding schools in North Idaho. She also was a founder and director of a private K-8th grade school in North Idaho.

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Linda Zimmerman, MA, LPCC
Educational Consultant

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Larry Stednitz, PhD
Educational Consultant

Larry has devoted 40 years of his life to the development and leadership of prevention and intervention services for troubled adolescents and their families. Larry began his career at Boys Town, Nebraska where he served as a counselor and coach. He has extensive experience with all types of wilderness, residential, and outpatient services for youth. Larry has developed and managed over 10 programs throughout the country, giving him a unique perspective and understanding of programs for youth. In the late 1980s, Larry developed the Western Youth Network. The Western Youth Network assisted parents and professionals in finding the right help for adolescents. Larry has collaborated with Woodbury Reports since it's inception in 1989.