RAHI students are treated as honors students and are expected to meet all rigorous academic and social standards set by the program. Leader and family perform icebreakers, getting to know each other, sharing concern from experiences, breaking down social barriers.
Family groups are also roommates.
The leader typically would be on the campus in the fall when the students return to the university to enroll full time, thus encouraging continued supportive interaction. Small academic teams also coalesce around academic specialty courses, working together on a final group presentation, thus encouraging cooperation and team work. Students have an opportunity to share anxieties and concerns in confidence and privacy. Working, playing, studying, laughing, living and sharing good and bad times together, strong friendships and powerful bonds made with similarly-minded fellow honors students and staff with whom many will later attend the university are all desired program outcomes. Speech techniques are incorporated to help prepare and deliver the presentation.