Abundant
Life Preparatory
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Christian Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens
A core belief of Abundant Life Preparatory is that teens are “troubled” because they have exchanged many proven, successful core values with fantasy-based thinking errors; such as, justifying and minimizing personal choice, blaming others, playing the victim, self-centered/self-absorbed beliefs, and acting entitled. To reverse this process, we teach personal accountability and personal responsibility, the practice of emotional intelligence, and choice theory (our life journey depends upon our choices, good and bad, over a period of time, and we can change direction [get back on track] at any time by making better choices). It is out of this belief system that an incredibly powerful and effective program (ALP) was created.� |
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Abundant Life Prep, the Christ-centered alternative to boot camps, military boarding schools, and residential treatment centers for troubled teens.
At Abundant Life Preparatory, we use Christ-centered “leadership” as our main foundation. We teach our students to fully assess their gifts/talents, understand their own personality temperaments/styles, understand the personality temperaments/styles of others, and effective communication through emotional intelligence. We have created an environment that they can safely practice these new skills through leadership opportunities. Our core belief is that all our students are uniquely gifted and have powerful potential. We challenge them to use these gifts in safe, proactive, and pro-social ways.
Abundant Life Preparatory prepares young men and women to be successful in the real world. While enrolled at ALP, we train our students to be leaders. We use the principals of Positive Peer Culture (PPC: student led government teaching personal and community responsibility). The significance of the PPC is that our students are taught to be responsible, not only for their own actions and behaviors, but also the behaviors and actions of their peers. Through the Positive Peer Culture program, our students learn about their gifts and talents, and we then give them opportunities to serve one another in a way that contributes to everyone’s overall success.
Abundant Life Preparatory is very unique . . . there is no doubt about it. When considering boarding schools, military schools, wilderness therapy programs, or boot camps for troubled teens, parents find Abundant Life Preparatory to be the perfect answer. Not a day goes by that we don’t have a parent of a troubled teen contact us and proclaim, “I am desperate, I did not know what I was looking for, but when I found you I thought, ‘This is exactly what I am looking for, it is perfect!’” But why . . . why is ALP so popular with parents? Because we do not see our students as being deficient, or suffering from disorders, or “troubled” at all. We believe that our students are powerful, have tremendous potential, yet are emotionally immature, selfish, and are in need of a new opportunity to refocus their talents in appropriate ways.
Continue to: Program Philosophy – “The Choice” |
TROUBLED
TEEN RESOURCES