Oakley School was a

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located in

Oakley, Utah Oakley is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,470 at the 2010 census. Geography Oakley is located east of Salt Lake City on SR-32, in the Kam ...

, enrolling students of

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age. The school announced its closure in May 2017. The school was established in 1998 as a transitional placement for students who had been released from the Island View

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. It was acquired by

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in 2004, along with Island View. Since August 2013, it has been "partnered with" InnerChange, LLC. A former student featured the since-closed Oakley School in the documentary Now Return Us to Normal. In it, the filmmaker Leslie Korean and her diverse classmates described their experiences during their years at the behavior modification school. Koren and others described treatment strategies included isolating students upon arrival, controlling who they could talk to and in what settings, taking away certain privileges, and therapy designed to psychologically break students. In 2021, Newport Academy, a nationwide network of residential treatment centers for teens struggling with mental health issues, opened a facility on the former campus of the Oakley School. The executive director of the Newport Academy teen residential treatment program in Oakley is Gary Broadbent, who also worked as a therapist at the Oakley School and

Island View Residential Treatment Center Elevations RTC is a residential treatment center in Syracuse, Utah, for teens ages 13–18. The facility was formerly known as Island View Residential Treatment Center until 2014, when it was acquired by Syracuse RTC, LLC, which does business as ...

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Notable alumni

Chet Hanks Chester Marlon Hanks (born August 4, 1990) is an American actor and musician. The son of actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, he has had recurring roles on ''Empire'' and '' Shameless''. Hanks also appeared as Joey Maldini in the Showtime legal d ...

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