CSTP offers them a way to stop and change direction. We are a residential program structured along military lines. Participants wear uniforms. Our goal is to build them up. The build-up is both physical and mental.
Participants eat a healthy diet served in a military-style dining hall.
They are required to engage in sports and other recreational activities. And, though many have already dropped out of school, they are required to drop back in. Besides 30 hours a week of academics, the boys are taught self-discipline and other life skills. Perhaps the most important of those new skills involve ways of dealing with anger. I think a lot of times, the young men we see here are somewhat disconnected from the normal progression of society.