Triumph Youth Service

What is Low Self Esteem? Self esteem is a person’s overall evaluation or judgment of his or her own worth. Low self esteem is a person’s inability to accept himself; having an unfavorable opinion of oneself or lack of confidence or worth. A person with low self esteem has a poor self image. Abraham Maslow, psychologist and creator of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, states that psychological health is not possible…

We believe it is vitally important for our students to learn, understand and appreciate the importance of work ethic, and be able to apply it to their lives. Our “Work Hard Play Hard” philosophy helps us to achieve this goal. We implement this through charity, meaningful community service, school work, therapy/program assignments, chores and apprenticeships/employment. After working hard it is equally important to Play Hard. We provide community services projects…

We at Triumph work extremely hard at preparing our youth for a successful future. Part of this process is teaching them valuable life skills. A life skill group is held daily to discuss the skill that is being worked on for that week. Staff gives feedback to the students in regards to what area of the skill needs improvement. Some of the life skills we work on are: Decision making,…

Triumph incorporates positive experiences throughout the program to help build leadership, independence, problem solving, peer mentoring, and life skills. Activities such as sports, art, exercise, cooking, dog training, hiking, camping, fishing, skiing/snowboarding, etc. will be part of a resident’s daily activities. Triumph Youth Services offers voluntary retriever training with AKC registered retrievers (mostly Labrador Retrievers) where we teach residents to train retrievers.  Once residents are competent in handling retrievers they…

Triumph strives to provide a program that teaches strong work ethic and develops positive lifelong habits that promote individual desire to work and become more self sufficient. This is accomplished through daily personal responsibilities including laundry, personal inventory, hygiene, and daily chores. Chores include maintaining individual living areas, maintaining group living areas, yard work and kitchen duties. As students transition through the program, they are given more individual and group responsibilities.…