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Clark, Wyoming 3/11/2008 06:47 PM GMT (FINDITT)
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Mt Carmel Youth Ranch helps at-risk teens through a mind, body, and spirit therapy aimed at the young mans development with activities that will dramatically improve his ability to make healthier lifestyle choices.
Mount Carmel Youth Ranch is unique in that we are a real working approximately 500 head/cattle ranch. Through the real work involved in ranching we give each young man who comes to our Mount Carmel Youth Ranch’s Program the opportunity to learn new skills, such as driving tractors, irrigating fields, carpentry, mechanizing, introduction to semi-driving, plant identification, animal husbandry, and all aspects of caring for beef cattle. The integration of Reality Therapy is weaved into every element of the troubled teens everyday life. Mount Carmel Youth Ranch Program has a proven 81.3 percent change in most areas of the teens behavior patterns. Many parents report that they see a major improvement in their sons respect for authority, and in their respectful and loving manner of relating with their family members.
What makes Mount Carmel Youth Ranch a very effective wilderness/outdoor adventure program is that we leave the young man’s freedom intact. We respect their free will and help them through our educational and experiential approach to come to a deeper understanding appreciation and responsibility for the choices they make and the inherent consequences in those choices.
We had one of our students describe their experience with us in this simple phrase "
Mount Carmel Youth Ranch has highly qualified professional staff who are dedicated to helping troubled teens overcome the obstacles that stand in their way of living a productive healthy life style. Mount Carmel Youth Ranch has over seventeen years of experience in helping at-risk youth. Jerry and Mickey Schneider, The Founders of Mount Carmel Youth ranch were awarded "Parents of the Year" award in 2002, as well as the distinguished service award from "Who’s Who in America". They were recently awarded the “Fidelity Award” from Catholic Central in
Mount Carmel Youth Ranch’s Academic Program is very effective in helping the troubled teen grow in confidence and self esteem as he learns that he can achieve and learn with our focused credit/independent study curriculum. We also provided credited courses in communication skills, Abstinence/healthy marriages using the Excel curriculum from A&M Education partnership. This course of study helps every young man grow in a healthy respect for women, improve their relationships with young women in healthy ways, and view their sexuality as a gift to be used only in a lifelong committed marriage relationship. We also address the very serious problem of pornography addiction, which many of the young men who come to Mount Carmel Youth Ranch Program struggle with. We give each young man the understanding of how destructive this behavior is to their relationship and how it can very negatively impact their ability to have a healthy happy marriage in the future.
The Mount Carmel Youth Ranch Academic program also includes a very effective substance abuse recovery program .
*The eight week program has an overall success rate of more than 65%.
* This approach has been one of the most successful alternatives to drug rehab and alcohol rehab programs in the country, for helping people with drug abuse and alcohol abuse problems permanently recover.
*This social-educational program as opposed to conventional treatment methodologies is what allows us to help our teens achieve permanent sobriety.
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