Family Help & Wellness: Owner of Asheville Academy Fined $45,000 following May 2025 Suicides of Two Patients

June 19, 2025

The owner of the now shuttered Asheville Academy where two residents died by suicide in May faces penalties for violating health and safety regulations and failing to provide supervision and structure, a state investigation found.

Wilderness Training & Consulting, which runs the Weaverville residential mental health program, will be fined $45,000 for the violations, according to letters and a survey report from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services obtained by Asheville Watchdog.

Two girls died by suicide at Asheville Academy in less than a month – a 13-year-old on May 3 and a 12-year-old on May 29. In early June it permanently closed.

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