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Student Leadership

  At Triumph Youth Services, Leadership plays a very important role in each youth's ability to make the changes needed to be successful in Life. This is a part of our philosophy. We believe that teaching Self-Leadership skills will help our students who struggle from a variety of different issues like Oppositional defiance, emotional disturbance and self esteem issues, to list just a few. I have had the privilege to witness this change in literally thousands of young men, they were…
Triumph Youth Services
February 13, 2014
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Addiction Hijacks the brain…

Addiction Hijacks the Brain The word “addiction” is derived from a Latin term for “enslaved by” or “bound to.” Anyone who has struggled to overcome an addiction or has tried to help someone else to do so understands why. Addiction exerts a long and powerful influence on the brain that manifests in three distinct ways: craving for the object of addiction, loss of control over its use, and continuing involvement…
Triumph Youth Services
February 10, 2014
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The Treatment Center that saved our Son…

The Treatment Center that saved our Son... I am so incredibly grateful for Triumph Youth Services. They brought me to my son, who we were able to adopt when he was seventeen. He didn't have a family and was living on the streets for most of his young life.  When he was about fourteen years old he was placed into Triumph. He was given shelter, a community, individual therapy, and…
Triumph Youth Services
February 6, 2014
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Outdoor Activities can be great Therapy…

Outdoor Activities Are Not Only Fun But Also Very Therapeutic... 3:00 AM CATCH ON THE KENAI Classroom education, individual therapy, group therapy and family therapy are extremely important for our youth dealing with behavioral, addiction and emotional disturbance issues, but good outdoor experiences are equally important and without a doubt aid in overall recovery as well as progress.  Each year Triumph Youth Services' youth have the opportunity to go to…
Triumph Youth Services
February 4, 2014
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SUCCESS is up to the Student…

SUCCESS is up to the student..."We supply the opportunity, they have to choose it" When a young man enters our program they often have very low self esteem. A few of the contributing factors for a poor self image are: learning disabilities, anxiety, and depression which leads to: behavior problems, major depression, teen violence and or addiction/substance abuse. Our new students can be reluctant to believe that they can succeed…
Triumph Youth Services
January 31, 2014