jeff_seabrooke-headshot.jpgJeff Seabrooke, School Director

Jeff has been with NHYM for 22 years. He has served at Escuela Caribe as a housefather, groupleader and as a counselor, and at New Horizons Academy and Missanabie Woods Academy as Program Director from 1993-2000. Jeff also spent three summers at Missanabie Woods Academy as a counselor/department head.

Jeff's proudest educational accomplishment was his associate degree in Child and Youth Care Work (1979) from Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada. He has gone on to obtain both a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Social Work, and is currently halfway through his Doctorate in General Psychology (online).

Jeff was married in 1992 to another New Horizons staff, Annie, who has been with New Horizons since 1987. They have two children. Annie is a counselor at Escuela Caribe. Jeff and Anne were both were raised in large families (19 siblings between the two of them) and this has helped them enjoy and deal with life in a boarding school environment.

One of Jeff's favorite scriptures is Matthew 22: 35-40, "...Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

 

dan_anderson-headshot.jpgDan Anderson, Assistant Director

Dan joined Escuela Caribe in the fall of 2001 as a teacher and later moved into the counseling department. In the fall of 2002, Dan and his wife Katie moved into TKB house where they spent two years working as House-parents in a girls house. As their time in the house came to a close they felt God calling them to continue serving with New Horizons.

After a summer serving at MWA, the summer program in Canada, they moved back to the Dominican Republic and in January 2005 Dan took the Home-life Department Head position. In 2007 he stepped into the role of Assistant Director. Dan and Katie are enjoying their newfound job as parents of their two-year-old daughter Lucy, and look forward to the arrival of their second child in April, 2007.