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Mission Statement
Transitioning students from a treatment environment back into society by creating opportunities for choice in order to assess progress and foster internal change.
Philosophy
All students possess a wealth of talents and aptitudes that are
often ignored or overlooked. In order to help students harness
this inner power, Mountain Springs is a non-traditional,
structured boarding school that compresses outstanding teaching,
life-changing experiences, and a powerful, individualized program (the MAPP plan)
into a relatively short period of time (a minimum of four months)
in order to transform students into powerful, leading individuals. Our leadership
training, experiential emphasis, and individual attention are
designed to take students to heights they previously believed to
be impossible. Mountain Springs also takes advantage of its
physical setting to provide students with a vast array of
experiential learning opportunities and experiences that challenge
their present paradigms.
At Mountain Springs (MSPA), we believe that a "transition experience" needs to be one where
students can practice skills and values they have learned in their prior treatment and sometimes even make mistakes.
We expect to see the mistakes and problems that the students would have made had they gone home, here in this environment.
The difference is that with the security and mentoring that our program provides, the repercussions of their actions are
typically less severe but still give us a clear indication of where the student is at and what still needs to be worked on.
At MSPA, the
outcome that we strive for
is “value-governed behavior”,
meaning the student
has internalized certain
values (such as honesty,
accountability, integrity,
responsibility, etc.) and is
choosing to live according
to these. When this is the
case, the student's behaviors
are consistent, even when
staff or other authority figures
aren’t watching or the
student may not get in
trouble for the behavior. External structure
(rewards, consequences,
etc.) do not dictate the student's
behavior as much as
his or her internal values and morals do.
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"There has been an incredible personalized program for my daughter that works for her in the big picture
and that works for her if she trips up and needs to help herself go forward. I've been very impressed so far. It's funny to say that I'm actually glad that my daughter
has tripped up at MSPA. Those have been learning experiences for her in a big way".
Mother
of a Former Student
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