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Novitas Academy

Closed Emmett, Idaho

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Address: 2625 N Plaza Rd, Emmett, ID 83617
Type: Therapeutic Boarding School
Operated: 2015 to 2022
Serves: Ages 14 to 18; source
Capacity: 24
Memberships: NATSAP (former member; member from 2014, last listed 2020-21)

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Novitas Academy was a therapeutic boarding school in Emmett, Idaho. It operated from 2015 to 2022.

About Novitas Academy

It opened in 2014. In Emmett since 2015 and closed March 18, 2022.source It was run by Cherry Gulch (branch).source

It cost over $12,000 per month.source

It was a member of NATSAP since 2014.source

Staff

Notable staff

Andy Sapp

Former Founder and CEOsource
Elsewhere in the industry
- a Lead Therapist on the adolescent unit of a locked inpatient psychiatric hospital
- Cherry Gulch Founder and CEO, CEO, Executive Director, President/Founder (2009-2012)
- NATSAP govt relations committee
Katie Rienstra

Former Executive Directorsource
Elsewhere in the industry
- St. Luke's Health System Social Worker, 2011
- Cherry Gulch Executive Director, 2015
- Intermountain Hospital Therapist (2009)
Bernie Zimmerman

“helped to create”
Elsewhere in the industry
- Cherry Gulch Program Therapist, Therapist, Clinical Director, Academic Director, Co-Owner, Executive Director, 2008
- Greenwood Associates Educational Consultant, Co-Developer of GACS, before 2008
- Intermountain Hospital Former Clinical Director

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Novitas Academy Emmett, ID | 2014-present

Reporting this program

This program closed in 2022, so the state agency that licensed it can no longer act against it. Other channels may still be able to: the boards that license the people who worked here, law enforcement, and the civil courts.

The Idaho reporting channels list each one and what it can do. Time limits depend on the state, the kind of harm and the survivor's age, and many states have lengthened or removed them for child sexual abuse, so a program closing long ago does not by itself mean it is too late. Laws change, so the time limits we list were correct when we checked them but may have been updated since; a lawyer can tell you where things stand now.