Description:
Trinity Teen Solutions, Inc. a residential treatment
center helps troubled young women find a new direction in their lives, giving
them the self-reliance to follow this direction in the face of negative
influences when they return home.
There are many advantages to treating young women in
the magnitude of God's creation. By placing her in a safe, loving environment,
the negative distractions and pressures that previously influenced her are
eliminated. In addition, behavior, attentiveness, and willingness to work have
a direct correlation to life's basic needs.
Through animal therapy young women begin to find the
loving, gentle person they used to be.
Taking care of and meeting the basic needs of animals,
encourages her to be less selfish, and respectful to relationships. This
process will increase motivation, self discipline, self-reliance, personal
accountability, and self-sacrifice. These are virtues that are emphasized
throughout the "Program for Life". These lessons are taught in a
variety of ways by coexisting with a group of peers, instructors, animals and
Mother Nature.
TTS's staff are able to reach students more
effectively while living, working and dealing with life's obstacles. They
become more "human like" to the young women. This is a key factor in
helping girls. They see the staff as approachable, empathetic, and honest. She
will directly observe the treatment team as living, eating and communicating in
the same environment as she is. This facilitates a connection, which enhances
genuineness between the young women and the staff. The treatment team is able
to step back from their traditional roles as authority figures, allowing
natural consequences to provide reinforcement and punishment of appropriate, or
inappropriate, behaviors.
The
philosophies of Trinity Teen Solutions, Inc. is that the experiential therapy
will:
- Offer the young women optimal
challenge with manageable conflict
- Exercise safety at all times
- Provide young women an
opportunity to exercise initiative and responsibility
- Provide young women with tasks
that have integrity (i.e., is not "busy-work")
- Reinforce dignity
- Builds self esteem
- Provide the young women with a
"sense of competence and success"
- Engage the
young women in reflection of their experiences
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