THE FACTS

Odyssey House Texas is an adolescent residential treatment facility with a highly structured treatment program that goes beyond habilitation and provides an environment that includes:

• A positive peer community that provides teaching tools, feedback and support

• A total learning setting where every rule, activity, intervention and interaction is a learning experience that builds on the others

• The development and mastery of delayed or missing basic developmental task

• A system that implements safety, consistency, trust, mutual respect, personal accountability and responsibility

• The daily activities of living in a cooperative community to learn healthy communication skills, family dynamics, and independent living skills

• A level system that correlates responsibility with privileges, and natural consequences that are age appropriate and educational

• The time necessary to practice and master newly learned skills and see themselves in a safe simulation of a new life

• The building of confidence and competence, capable of making decisions without being dependent on other people or substances to meet new challenges

• The responsibility to pass on what is learned and give back to the community

• A treatment team of multidisciplinary professionals who guide and teach to facilitate the learning environment, while addressing the scars and wounds of past hurts and present life circumstances

Odyssey House Texas Heals, Teaches And Prepares For The Future!