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LifeCare Partners with Bertram Educational Consultants
To Deliver Expanded Support to Students and Their Families
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WESTPORT, Conn., March 15, 2005 – LifeCare®,
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® 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.”
Notes to Editors
Peter Burki is available for interview.
About LifeCare®, Inc.
LifeCare®, Inc. is one of the largest privately owned employee
benefits organizations in the U.S. and the exclusive provider of Life Event
Management® 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 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
www.cmbertramconsultants.com.
Media contact: Jim Derivan
LifeCare, Inc.
pr1@lifecare.com
203-291-4196
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