Helping Troubled Teens through an alternative to boot camp: MTC: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Christian Youth Ranch

Academic Programs
Students at School for Troubled Teens.

Education / Academic Studies
This is truly our strong point. Each at risk teen is enrolled in the Nationally Accredited Seton Catholic Home Study Program or the Nationally Accepted Our Lady of the Rosary home study program. A separate curriculum is developed for each individual student, taking into consideration past credits earned and focusing on basic requirements for a high school diploma. Older and academically advanced students engage in philosophy, advanced math and science. Everyone studies Catholic chatechism and church history.

Our schools for troubled teens provide students with the opportunity to learn at their own pace and receive individual attention. It is also an effective way of helping those with learning disabilities and motivational challenges. Often, struggling students will catch up to their age group within a year’s time. The goal of MTC is to encourage them to take possession of their own education. Many go on to college and are academic achievers. Several learned so much from our camp for troubled teens that they are serving our country in the U.S. military; they are making the country a safer place for us all.

Mt. Carmel also has an abstinence education program with weekly classes on the importance of the great personal dignity of each human being. Stress is placed on developing healthier peer relationships. Understanding the statistics of health risks and effects on future marriages is stressed shows the boys the importance of abstinence. Through practicing abstinence one learns his personal worth, is able to set boundaries and practice greater self discpiline with a stronger character.

Our Lady of the Rosary School
Seton Home Study School

Vocational Training/ Trade School
This training is not academic as such, but high school credits are earned in vocational and experiential projects. When possible, specific activities are matched with students' interests. It is through the camp for troubled teens that Mt. Carmel can provide as many first time experiences as possible to help each of the young men discover his own God given talents, worth and potential. In addition, this natural setting exposes the at risk teens to new physical challenges. For example, they are involved in wildlife and range management, equipment maintenance and repair, welding, carpentry, horticulture, animal husbandry, veterinary assistance (calf vaccination and delivery at birth), horsemanship, and horseshoeing. Some boys are even involved in logging, operating farm equipment such as tractors, a backhoe and bulldozer, irrigating crop land, training stock dogs, and caring for baby calves.

Mount Carmel Youth Ranch Uses The Proven Substance Abuse Treatment Approach "The Jude Thaddeus Home Recovery Program"