It is located at a remote beach facility near the seaport town of Ensenada, Mexico. The Setting is beautiful, peaceful, and conducive to change. Casa by the Sea provides an effective program for teens who are struggling at home, at school, or in the community. This program is specifically designed to help teens to replace inappropriate attitudes, behaviors, and habits with new, productive ones. At Casa by the Sea, students are enriched and effectively impacted by a unique cultural experience in Mexico's warm, simple surroundings.
Students learn Spanish, which further enhances the process of change.
The benefits of a foreign site are numerous. First, the students are put into an entirely new environment, away from the negative friends and influences that have adversely affected their lives. Second, the teens discover that they are in a unfamiliar culture. As a result, the teens tend to be more teachable and open to change and direction. Third, a foreign experience helps to broaden the teen's insight, awareness and perspective.