- measurable growth
There are five stages of change in the lifeleafTM approach. Each stage has its own set of tasks, privileges, and time requirements.  Stages serve as a way to measure progress.  As students work their way through each stage, parents gain clarity for setting goals, acknowledge positive accomplishments, and highlight what actions need to be taken next.

Parents have a great deal of input into goal setting, treatment planning, and stage promotions.  Parents maintain contact with their daughter through frequent phone calls, mail, and visits.  The typical student takes twelve months to accomplish all five stages, but can take up to eighteen months depending on the student.  In that time, parents have the benefit of seeing God work in their daughter's life in a measurable way that impacts the entire family.

7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD and whose trust is the LORD.   8 For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes; but its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.     Jeremiah 17: 7-8 NAS

- progress updates
Within each stage, students have specific and frequent feedback to guide their progress and behavior.  Each week staff members present a written report to students, peers and parents. Students are given weekly privilege zones based on this report, which allows for insightful reflection on their choices and self-corrective measures to be taken within each stage.

spiritual	therapeutic	academic	social	physical	stages
- church - youth group - discipleship - training	- individual - family - group - therapy	- year-round - accredited - fine arts - individualized	- campus life - positive peers - structured - supervised	- english riding - team sports - nutrition - exercise	- parent involved - measured - structured - positive