Admissions Staff


Leah Halverson

Admissions Director

Phone: 866-205-2500
Fax: 801-906-6631
Cell: 801-550-8971
Email: leah@snwp.com

Leah is a graduate of Sterling College, where her interests in outdoor education and therapy began. She has spent the last eleven years working in outdoor programming, and started her career at Aspen Achievement Academy in Southern Utah. Leah worked at AAA for five years in varying capacities including Senior Field Instructor and Admissions Counselor prior to being promoted to the position of Admissions Director. In the fall of 2002, Leah accepted the position of Admissions Director at SUWS of the Carolinas, in Western North Carolina where she worked until joining the Second Nature Admissions team in the spring of 2004.

At Second Nature, Leah has truly found her home in the industry. She is passionate about working for a company that is exhaustively committed to helping students and families achieve success and well being. Leah believes strongly in the individualized clinical model at Second Nature, and is thrilled to be surrounded and supported by a team that shares her enthusiasm for serving families with a strong focus on customer service and professionalism. She has most recently been promoted to the role of Admissions Director at Second Nature, and is excited to continue to work with families while also supporting her team and each program location at an even higher level.

While she has lived in many beautiful regions of the country, Leah grew up in Western Massachusetts and still remains a New Englander at heart both in sporting arenas and driving practices. During her free time, Leah enjoys spending time with her friends and dog Fremont. In addition, she has developed a love for and addiction to the sport of Triathlon and continues to train and obsess about finding ways to get faster!

Shahara Davis

Admissions

Phone: 866-205-2500
Fax: 801-401-7146
Cell: 801-274-2192
Email: shaharad@snwp.com

Shahara has been with Second Nature since February, 2000. Initially she worked in the Transport department. Her responsibilities included picking up new students, transporting them to the office, accompanying them through the initial intake process, and helping create an environment to ease the transition for students struggling with the concept of wilderness.

In May of 2003, Shahara joined the Admissions department. As an Admissions consultant she has the opportunity of working closely with families and referring consultants. As a parent, she understands the complexity of the emotional and financial issues involved in making the decision to place a child in wilderness. She also recognizes that by the time a family contacts an Admissions Representative, parents have already experienced great sadness, worry and frustration about their child and the impact of what is happening in their family. Shahara feels fortunate to be a part of the Second Nature team and participate in the process of assisting families in taking the first steps to a renewal of hope, insight, and growth, for the child or young adult, and their family.

Shahara attended the University of Utah where she studied Child Development and Social Work. Her commitment to children and adolescents has always been a paramount focus of her life. She has volunteered in local schools, and held positions of leadership while serving on committees which promote education and families. She worked diligently to encourage cooperation and partnership between local business and communities for the benefit of children and families.

Shahara is the mother of 4 grown children - two daughters and two sons (plus a great son-in-law). She enjoys traveling with her family, exercising and going to movies!

Her greatest joy is being the Grandmother of two wonderful little boys!

Steve Kirk

Admissions

Phone: 866-205-2500
Fax: 801-406-8008
Cell: 801-785-7933
Email: stevek@snwp.com

Steve joined the admissions department at Second Nature in April of 2006. His primary desire in joining Second Nature was to be part of a process that has such a positive and powerful impact on those struggling to find their way emotionally and behaviorally, which this opportunity indeed provides. Steve's own struggles as an adolescent, and now the constant endeavor of raising three kids of his own, have provided a well rounded perspective on the parent/child dynamic and its challenges.

Steve attended Brigham Young University where he earned a degree in Communications and a minor in Business. Prior to joining Second Nature, Steve worked in many customer service capacities in the software industry. He now provides support to the admissions team and works closely with families in crisis and with educational consultants during the initial admissions process.

Steve loves to spend time hanging out with his wife and kids, going to movies, sporting events, listening to music, and enjoying good food! He also loves to golf and wakeboard, and is fanatical about watching any sport with a ball, especially football, baseball, and basketball!

Tere Snodgrass

Admissions

Phone: 866-205-2500
Fax: 770-947-5333
Cell: 770-947-5444
Email: tere@snwp.com

Tere has 18 years experience working in admissions and consultant relations. She brings with her well rounded expertise regarding short term programs, therapeutic boarding schools and residential treatment facilities.  Tere is committed to assisting families in crisis.  She strives to establish relationships based upon trust and integrity.

She grew up in Tucson and attended the University of Arizona where she studied Criminal Justice. Tere has lived in the Southeast for 16 years and currently resides in a suburb outside of Atlanta.
Tere and her husband David are the proud parents of  two beautiful daughters. Family is very important to Tere.  She is adamant her girls know grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, so there are many family trips to Arizona and Tennessee.   She enjoys college sports, especially the PAC 10 and SEC conferences. She also loves watching her girls ride Tennessee Walking horses, reading, traveling and gardening.

Lori Armbruster

Admissions, Family Services and Development Director

Phone: 866-205-2500, ext 6
Fax: 208-439-5082
Email: loria@snwp.com

Lori has over 17 years of experience in admissions and consultant relations. Lori served as Executive Director of Consultant Relations, Admissions Director and Executive Director of Customer Service in a variety of therapeutic programs. Most recently, Lori served as Director of Admissions for a private emotional growth boarding school for adolescents in Montana.

Lori’s goal in admissions has always been to provide clarity, care and compassion to each family with whom she works. From a young age, Lori knew she wanted to work with families largely due to many of her own experiences as a teen and through her experiences in boarding school. It is Lori’s passion for people and attention to detail that drives her desire to be a calming resource for families in crisis.

Lori attended college in northern California where she studied Psychology. She has lived in beautiful Sandpoint, Idaho for the past 23 years. She and her husband Jim, have two wonderful children, a daughter who is a freshman in high school and a son, who is a sophomore at Boise State University.

The Armbruster family loves sports and as a result, Lori is a proud “soccer mom”. On any given weekend, Lori is likely on a field, in a stadium, or on a court cheering on the kids and loving every minute of it. Lori loves volunteering in her community, taking trips to sunny places and being with her family.

 

Patrick Logan, M.S.

Special Projects

Fax: (435) 738-2046
Cell: (801) 913-3733
Email: patrick@snwp.com

Patrick received a B.A. in psychology from Rutgers and his M.S. in psychology at the University of Georgia (1989).  Immediately after college, he worked 2 summers in Antarctica with NSF's McMurdo Base support contract, then Nagoya, Japan, teaching English to Toyota Motor Company engineers.

In 1993 and '94, Patrick worked with Hurricane Island Outward Bound's S.T.E.P. program, an adjudicated intervention program.  He then continued his wilderness development with Aspen Achievement Academy, Hidden Lake Academy, returned to Aspen for another summer before being invited to Field Direct at Second Nature Uintas in 1999.  Since then, Patrick has helped expand Second Nature wilderness programs, by helping establish Blue Ridge, Cascades and Willow Creek School.  He now manages the company's database and IT systems, works alongside the Admissions Department, and helps manage the webinar and Outreach components of the parents' experience.

Along with his outdoor work, Patrick has enjoyed extensive world travels prior to settling down in Salt Lake City with his girlfriend Kamie and two dogs.