Trinity's Programs for Troubled Teens Work in the Real World Because They are Taught in the Real World
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Catholic boarding schools for teens at risk builds self motivation. |
All too often, teens at risk are sequestered to a protected facility where they attend meetings and therapy sessions to overcome their challenges. As a Catholic boarding school and adolescent residential treatment center, Trinity has found that teens at risk who attend such programs quickly fall back into old behaviors once they return home. This is generally for two reasons. First, girls don't know how to adapt their newfound life skills to their old environments. Second, they have a spiritual void in their lives which they attempt to fill with things other than God.
Living and working at Trinity's Catholic boarding school gives your daughter a safe retreat in a loving environment where the negative distractions that previously influenced her are eliminated. At the same time, she will learn to function in a real-world family setting, making the adjustment from Trinity to home much smoother.
"What do your programs for troubled teens consist of?"
Through a variety of specifically developed programs for teens at risk, we ask your daughter to identify and solve her problems. That process, in our view, is half of what it takes to become a healthy person.
Through several programs for troubled teens (including animal and wilderness therapy, experiential family therapy and other forms of therapy), your child will begin to return to the loving, gentle person she used to be… mind, body and soul.
Mindset Changes and Challenges Program
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Programs for troubled teens teach girls about bonding relationships. |
While living at Trinity's Catholic boarding school, your daughter has the benefit of temporarily leaving the negative distractions and pressures of life behind. This frees her to focus on finding herself and discovering who she is through Christ.
The Mindset Changes and Challenges Program takes teens at risk and encourages changes in their behavior. In order for her to gain privileges, your child needs to work honestly on the behaviors, attitudes and issues that are forcing you to seek treatment for her.
Once she is successful, your daughter will grow self-worth and dignity that will allow her to do the painstaking task of looking honestly inward. With the emotional growth that occurs, she will be able to soften her heart and let down all the barriers that have prevented her from looking inward and achieving healing.
"Does the entire program consist of mind work?"
The mind isn't the only area of your daughter's total person that we work on. Our philosophy about troubled teens is to provide each one with appropriate therapy for her mind, body and soul.
All of Trinity's programs require your daughter to develop virtues by a measurable change in her behavior and attitude. We also offer quality nutrition specifically designed for teens at risk. Likewise, we work on your child's spiritual development, increasing her inner strength and peace.
We require her to examine her conscience moment to moment, and we observe progress daily. We also review her overall progress towards our treatment goals weekly. We require your daughter to grow in virtues such as patience, mercy, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, respect, motivation, honesty, self-control and responsibility. As she practices these, she will internalize these characteristics as her own.
If you didn't want the best for your daughter, you wouldn't be researching programs for troubled teens. With the decision to get help comes questions. We'd be glad to speak with you by phone or to receive an email from you. Contact us today to receive more information on helping your daughter successfully conquer the battles she's fighting. There is hope at Trinity Teen Solutions.
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Dear Friends,
We have a common bond of friendship in our common experience with our dearest daughters. Feeling the strain of your decision to send your daughter to TTS, let me tell you about some of the ways that my wife and I handled this. (But first I must tell you a brief snippet about my first meeting with the Trinity staff. This occurred after our daughter was at Trinity for six months. We were invited to come for a visit (and more !) to Trinity. After reviewing some of our "Family Profile" data that was used to help our daughter, The Therapy staff had me pegged as a weeper ! And although they will deny this - I'm sure that there was a Therapy staff "pool" as to the timing of my first ocular flood!! They were right, of course, and they didn't have long to wait either !! Tears - YES - but none of them sad. Just Thankful Tears and Grateful Tears and Tears of Joy.)
Now to your issue of strain and anxiety and upset - Yep, all normal and all to be very much expected. My wife and I handled this, at least partially, by remembering some prophetic words which were said when we both attended a talk given by Father John Corapi who is a traveling evangelist and a most remarkable speaker. My wife and I were next to each other in the fifth row in an auditorium filled with over 2000 people listening to father Corapi speak about Our Children and Our Culture of Death. I'll never forget his words and it seemed as if his eyes were vividly directed specifically at us when he said, " The Devil and his ilk want your child to be dead. Yes, The devil and this culture so influenced by his evil want you to wake up one day and find your child dead - in some dumpster. A victim of this self indulgent society that seeks not LIFE for it's children - but urges them on to a victimized goal of Death." My wife and I looked at each other and we knew that those words were in a special way meant for us. And through the help, the power and the Grace of God we helped our daughter to once again embrace LIFE. And when you hug your daughter - and then leave her at Trinity .... that hug will be the embrace of LIFE for her ... and for you as well. I should stop at this point and wait to speak to you by phone, but as my wife will attest, stopping has never been a strong point with me. However, I feel an obligation to you both - knowing from experience how I felt and realizing that you now feel that way. And that feeling is a roller coaster of emotions, doubts, and uncertainties. A last element of advise is to look to your Faith and to Scripture for the very best assistance in your time of need. Did you see, "The Passion of The Christ" ? Think back to the scene where Mary His Mother met Him and embraced Him as He carried the cross on His way to Calvary. Now reread your last email to me. And now consider how His mother may have written those same words to me in Her "email" : "I am so worried about His walk to Calvary and this separation ... because He will suffer so horribly as He carries on ... and I am a weeper, so it will be so difficult for me as well ... even though I know that this is the best thing for Jane Doe ... it's still so very hard and difficult." In many ways, at least for my wife and I, Christ's Mother was the model and the best example of Grace for all parents, and especially for parents who must help their child by the cross of separation. And yes I will stop here. We look forward to speaking to you soon. Sincerely yours in Christ, Lou and Ginny
L.M. Munster, IN |
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