A Christ-Centered Residential Life

At our center, we believe that an essential part of your daughter’s recovery is separation from negative influence, while encouraging authentic relationships within the program community.

- Structure

We strive to create a Christian home and academic environment in which residents can learn to succeed over time in a nurturing atmosphere of Christ’s love, support, accountability, and structure.  In order to see young women develop into a Godly, responsible adults, they need a place to practice making changes.  We believe teens need to be taught to make good decisions, and to face natural and logical consequences.  This allows them to choose to be a Godly, responsible young adult. It will be our goal to see that the ability to choose what is right for the right reasons will follow your daughter beyond our program. We see it as our job to create a structure in which your daughter can practice choices, and then face the results of those choices. We attempt to make the program environment a microcosm of real life.  We strive to create an environment in which she can succeed or fail, within a safe learning environment.  The key is holding your daughter accountable for her actions. For your daughter to learn personal responsibility, she will need to face both positive and negative consequences for choices she makes.  

- Safety

In addition to a physically safe environment, we strive to provide a spiritually and emotionally safe environment.  It is important to realize that teens often make wrong choices in peers, media, music and people of influence. It is our assertion that in order to make a new start, she must make a break from her past. We strive to surround your daughter with positive, Godly influence in order to create an atmosphere of genuine support and love.  The structure and policies of the program are designed to minimize the need for argument over unimportant matters of judgment such as media content, clothing style, and appearance.  This allows staff members to focus on more important matters such as interpersonal dynamics, spiritual growth, and governing patterns of behavior. This spiritually focused, protected environment will allow your daughter to grow in healthy relationships with God, her peers, her family, and society in general. We will require your help in maintaining this environment at our center by following some simple guidelines.

- Quality of Life

Much like it is in your home, your daughter will be required to share in housekeeping duties here as well.  Residents tend their own laundry, share in meal preparation, and they are responsible for other rotating duties around the home. The goal of our community living duties is to teach responsibility, and to prepare teens for adulthood with practical life management skills.

Residents meet weekly for a quality of life meeting.  Here they discuss what matters around the home need to be attended to, and chore assignments are made for the week.  Meal planning is done in this meeting as well, and residents are allowed some say in the grocery list.  Our meals are based on a well balanced diet, rich in fresh fruits and vegetables.  We consult with a nutritionist for menu planning as well.

- The Setting

Our facility is a home, set on twelve acres amid ancient oaks and shored by the Bayou Teche.  It is located on a 70 acre sugarcane plantation in historic St. Martinville, Louisiana.  Our twelve-acre home-site is surrounded on all four sides by the sugarcane fields.  This serene setting provides the perfect setting for residents to work through difficult issues, and at the same time experience a renewed relationship with God.  The daily routine is highly structured, yet the setting is home-like and peaceful.

Our home emphasizes community living, with shared responsibilities and duties.  Our home is by no means expansive or pretentious, but it is clean, functional, and well maintained.  Staff provides twenty-four hour supervision in the home, and are always available for informal counseling in addition to the weekly individual and group therapy sessions the residents receive.  We are also always available to parents who may have questions or concerns they wish to discuss.

- Family Involvement

The primary focus of our program is family restoration.  Our philosophy leads us to include the family as much as possible through the course of the program.

• Families attend a family retreat twice per year
• Families are encouraged to visit, call, email, and chat weekly
• Holiday home visits are arranged if residents and families are ready
• Family therapy sessions are held periodically by teleconference, video-conference, and in person when possible.
• see the sample parent handbook in the literature section for details

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