Group Home for Troubled Teens
Our world DOES make a difference. Turning Winds Academic Institute provides a structured, academic, self discovering, therapeutic program for troubled teens between the ages of twelve and eighteen.
Turning Winds Academic Institute specializes in three distinct areas: Behavior modification, emotional stability and academic achievement. We attribute the tremendous success we have had with the troubled youth we have worked with over the past years on the work that has been done in these areas.
Our trained staff has a combined experience of over 60 years in working with at-risk youth, at group homes for troubled teens, thus allowing them to think quickly and act appropriately in any given situation. Our highly successful individualized program allows us to focus on each individual student, thus preventing any student from "slipping through the crack."
Our services include individualized therapy with a licensed therapist, behavior modification, outdoor recreation (we utilize many components found in summer camps for troubled teens and wilderness programs for troubled teens), development of life skills, the teaching of appropriate social relationships, leadership development, field trips which are conducive to learning and a fully accredited academic institute with a time tested individualized one-on-one teaching style. All of these services help our students to develop the character needed to succeed where they have failed in the past. We believe character is the key component to successful living and life satisfaction. Character is developed by promoting the following virtues:
THE TEN CHARACTER VIRTUES
- Industriousness (maintaining a positive work ethic aimed at setting and achieving realistic goals in service to self and others)
- Humility (the ability to remain teachable)
- Direction (the ability to lead through the process of correct decision making)
- Environmental Awareness (realizing that healthy environments promote individual wellness)
- Integrity (understanding and accepting one's own strengths and weaknesses by being true to one's own self)
- Responsibility (acquiring, then using, knowledge to make the best decisions possible and living with the outcome)
- Respect (appreciating oneself and others as persons with great potential and creative possibilities)
- Family Connection (developing a greater appreciation for the strengths and resources that one can draw upon within his/her own family)
- Altruism (engaging in activities for the primary purpose of serving others)
- Verbal Assertiveness (speaking up in a supportive and encouraging manner)
We believe that every troubled teen possesses a greatness which can be redeveloped given the right environment. Turning winds Therapeutic Program encourages adolescents to "Take a Stand" for what is right, and facilitates growth in troubled teens by helping them to rediscover their strengths.
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