Facility profile Utah

Kaizen Academy

Formerly Birdseye Boys Ranch

Also known as Birdseye RTC

Closed Payson, Utah

Kaizen Academy was a residential treatment center in Payson, Utah, operated by CERTS Group. It opened in 1989.

About Kaizen Academy

It closed.source

It partnered with Columbia University's Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology to let graduate students participate in a therapeutic wilderness experience.source

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Timeline

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19892009201419892014

  1. 1989

    1. Opened

      Opened in Payson, Utah

  2. 2009

    1. New name

      Renamed Birdseye RTC

      It had been Birdseye Boys Ranch.

  3. 2014

    1. IncidentApril 2014

      Sexual abuse

      In April 2014 the former director was arrested for sexually abusing a 15-year-old resident in April and May 2013; she pled guilty to five counts of custodial...

      Sexual abuse April 2014

      In April 2014 the former director was arrested for sexually abusing a 15-year-old resident in April and May 2013; she pled guilty to five counts of custodial sexual misconduct and got 320 days in jail, 36 months probation and a $40,000 fine.

      source

As Birdseye Boys Ranch

1989 to 2009

Nothing on record is dated to these years yet.

As Birdseye RTC

2009 to 2016

Incidents on record

  1. April 2014 Sexual abuse

    In April 2014 the former director was arrested for sexually abusing a 15-year-old resident in April and May 2013; she pled guilty to five counts of custodial sexual misconduct and got 320 days in jail, 36 months probation and a $40,000 fine.source

As Kaizen Academy

from 2016 | CERTS

Nothing on record is dated to these years yet.

Staff

Administration

  • Chris Wei

    Former Program Directorsource

  • Clark Hammond

    Former Executive Directorsource

    Elsewhere in the industry

  • Max Bertola

    Former Principalsource

    Elsewhere in the industry

    • Park City Independent CEO

Notable staff

Licensing and inspections

Licensed as
Treatment Solutions LLC, DBA Kaizen Academy; Heritage Youth Services
License category
Residential Treatment
Licensed capacity
24
License expires
01/31/2027
Licensing action
Licensed
Phone on file
8017955448
Licensed address
996 W 800 S, Payson, UT, 84651

21 inspection reports on file. Search all Utah reports

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Ownership

  • CERTS

Documents

Documents on file (1)
Woodbury Reports Mentions (1)

From the Unsilenced archive

6 documents about Kaizen Academy that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Kaizen RTC.

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