Awards and Recognition

The Academy:

"Community Based Program of the Year”
Year awarded: 1994
Honor presented by: The Juvenile Court Judges Commission (JCJC)

Selected out of 4,000 candidates and Featured on The Visionaries Television Series
Year series aired: 2000
Honor presented by: The Visionaries, Inc., a “nonprofit organization dedicated to using the power of media to tell stories of the people and organizations making positive social change throughout the world.” To learn more about The Visionaries and their mission, visit them at: www.visionaries.org


The Summit Academy:

“Residential Program of the Year”
Year Awarded: 2000
Honor presented by: JCJC

Sportsmanship Award
Years awarded: 1999, 2000, 2001
Honor presented by: Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League

The Temple University Crime and Justice Research Center, an independent organization which prepares and distributes studies of youth care providers throughout Pennsylvania at the request of the Philadelphia Juvenile Court, concluded in its most recent “Outcomes Report” (April 2002), that the Summit Academy’s students “demonstrated success in many areas.” In comparison to its other non-secure, institutional competitors, the study concluded that:

“The Summit Academy’s clients were more than twice as likely as their counterparts at other non-secure, institutional programs to complete a GED while in the program.”

“Clients of the Summit Academy were significantly more likely than clients of other similar programs to complete vocational training while in the program.”

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