WESTPORT, Conn., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeCare(R), Inc. has announced that it is partnering with Camille M. Bertram Educational Consultants to provide expanded counseling and support services to students and their families among LifeCare’s 1,500 client organizations, effective immediately. The partnership will serve students making decisions regarding junior and secondary boarding schools and colleges, including average, gifted and talented students, underachievers and those with special needs.
LifeCare, the exclusive provider of Life Event Management(R) Services, currently provides 24/7 counseling, education and personalized referrals to students among its client base. The partnership with Bertram Educational Consultants will enable LifeCare to better serve the evolving and increasingly complex needs of students seeking to choose the school or college that will best match their unique needs and realize their full academic potential. Bertram Educational Consultants serves as an unbiased student advocate, helping them make informed decisions and navigate the challenges of today’s educational system.
“We’re absolutely delighted to be working closely with Bertram Educational Consultants, an outstanding and highly respected organization,” says Peter G. Burki, LifeCare co-founder and CEO. “Their unique student advocacy capabilities and expertise are the perfect complements to the personalized academic services we currently offer clients.”
“Today’s educational system is far more complex, competitive and costly than it was just a few short years ago,” added Camille M. Bertram, founder and president of Bertram Educational Consultants. “This partnership speaks volumes about LifeCare’s commitment to helping students and their families make sound decisions and the best possible choices for the future.”
The LifeCare/Bertram partnership will offer a comprehensive range of advisory services, including college planning and counseling; junior and secondary boarding school advisory services; independent day school selection advice; and special needs and therapeutic placement. In addition, referral sources will be provided for SSAT, SAT, and ACT test preparation as well as for psychological educational testing and evaluation.
The Rising Need for Academic Support Services
The impetus behind the LifeCare/Bertram partnership, according to Burki, is a steady rise in the number of cases that LifeCare handles for students with special needs. “During the course of the past year, we’ve seen a 25 percent increase in these kinds of cases and many of them require personalized, objective counseling to help students articulate their issues and make the right choices. LifeCare has always provided students with customized referrals to schools and colleges that best fit their needs but our partnership with Bertram Educational Consultants will enable us to deliver even more personalized assistance to families seeking both traditional and therapeutic environments for their children.”
Alicia Lapham, LifeCare’s team leader for Special Needs Services, says that the company has been providing special needs assistance in several areas in particular. “One thing we’ve done quite a lot is to help educate parents about how to have their children properly tested so that they can be placed in the best educational setting for their needs. We’re also helping a large number of parents find educational resources for children with autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorder and behavioral and emotional disorders. Finding just the right educational setting can be very labor and time intensive for those who don’t have access to a resource like LifeCare.”
“Today’s students are facing many more academic and social challenges than those of a generation or even a decade ago,” says Bertram. “This makes our job as student advocates and counselors more complex. We believe that, together, LifeCare and Bertram Educational Consultants will help students make the most of their educational experience. And that’s a critical stepping stone to success later in life.”
About LifeCare, Inc.
LifeCare(R), Inc. is one of the largest privately owned employee benefits organizations in the U.S. and the exclusive provider of Life Event Management(R) Services. With more than 20 years of experience in delivering highly personalized counseling, education and referral services, LifeCare helps employees manage the day-to-day challenges of their lives. In turn, LifeCare helps employers improve employee commitment, recruitment, retention and workplace productivity. LifeCare currently serves 1,500 client companies with 4.5 million individuals within health plans, governmental agencies, unions and corporations. For more information, visit http://www.lifecare.com/ .
About Camille M. Bertram Educational Consultants
Bertram Educational Consultants provides a broad range of unbiased advisory and support services to students and families throughout the United States, to help them select the school, college or program that best matches the student’s unique needs. Their consultants get to know each student personally, so that they can offer guidance that will help them realize their full academic and social potential. The firm assists average, gifted and talented students, as well as underachievers and those with special needs. For more information, visit http://www.cmbertramconsultants.com/ .
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