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Ponca Pines Academy

Closed Omaha, Nebraska

At a glance

Address: Omaha, NE
Type: Therapeutic Boarding School
Operated: 2008 to 2012; source 1, source 2
Serves: Female, ages 17 to 19; source 1, source 2

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Ponca Pines Academy was a therapeutic boarding school in Omaha, Nebraska. It operated from 2008 to 2012.

Staff

Administration

Betsy Jacobson-Warren

Executive Director, Launched and directed (2008-2009)source
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- Academy at Sisters Marketing Director, before 2008
- NATSAP board of directors
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Notable staff

Kelly Lewis

Lead teacher (2008)source
Linda Beckstead

Lead Teacher (2011)source
Krystal Boose

Para educator (2008)source
Christy Roubicek

Admissions Director (2008-2009)source
Michelle Davis

Lead Therapist (2011)source
Bailey Wrenn

Co-Teacher (2011)source
Carrie Iwen

Program Coordinator (2008)source

Documents

From the Unsilenced archive

1 document about Ponca Pines Academy that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Ponca Pines Academy.

Additional Links for Ponca Pines Academy.xlsx

Research notes

Added 2026-09-30 from Woodbury Reports, October 2008 (#170), p. 28, source
Operator: associated with Uta Halee Girls Village (established 1950)
Gender: extended admissions to include 16-year-old girls
Membership: Accepted by NATSAP as a Provisional Member
Ages: young women ages 17-19
Described as: students may be dealing with issues around adoption, attachment, substance abuse, mental health disorders, trauma, and poor academic performance
Start year: 2008 (source)
Closed in 2012 (sets status Closed, end year 2012) (source)
Ages 17-19 (source)
Serves: Female (source)

Reporting this program

This program closed in 2012, 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 Nebraska 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.