Developing Skills for Long-Term Success
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:25 am
With a minimum enrollment period of 100 days, Turn-About Ranch is a relatively short-term program – but that doesn't mean that students aren't able to reap long-term benefits from their time on the ranch.
One of the ways that Turn-About Ranch increases the likelihood of continuing success is by featuring a family component. While students are working in class, completing therapy sessions and fulfilling ranch responsibilities, their parents are participating in phone consultations with members of the ranch's therapeutic staff.
"The family unit is essential to our students' success," Mr. Hatch said. "We focus on trying to help family members make the changes that they need to make – both to support their child and to improve the way the whole family functions."
With this objective in mind, Turn-About Ranch promotes email data responsibility, effective communication and conflict resolution.
"We emphasize empowerment, coping skills and improved interactions," he said. "We prepare our students to return home, become more productive members of their families and be more successful in school."
The results of this effort reveal themselves in myriad ways – in healthier families in which disagreements are settled with discussions, not confrontations; in formerly struggling students who now have the motivation to work and the self-confidence to ask for help when they need it; in young adults who have taken ownership of their past mistakes and are using the lessons they learned to plot successful and satisfying futures.
None of these goals can be achieved without a bit of help, yet neither can they be earned without accepting responsibility and becoming self-reliant.
This ultimate objective of Turn-About Ranch -- this unity of independence, confidence and cooperation -- is perhaps best expressed by a program graduate who was recalling his progress working on the ranch:
I had to have help the first time, but now I can do it by myself.[*]
One of the ways that Turn-About Ranch increases the likelihood of continuing success is by featuring a family component. While students are working in class, completing therapy sessions and fulfilling ranch responsibilities, their parents are participating in phone consultations with members of the ranch's therapeutic staff.
"The family unit is essential to our students' success," Mr. Hatch said. "We focus on trying to help family members make the changes that they need to make – both to support their child and to improve the way the whole family functions."
With this objective in mind, Turn-About Ranch promotes email data responsibility, effective communication and conflict resolution.
"We emphasize empowerment, coping skills and improved interactions," he said. "We prepare our students to return home, become more productive members of their families and be more successful in school."
The results of this effort reveal themselves in myriad ways – in healthier families in which disagreements are settled with discussions, not confrontations; in formerly struggling students who now have the motivation to work and the self-confidence to ask for help when they need it; in young adults who have taken ownership of their past mistakes and are using the lessons they learned to plot successful and satisfying futures.
None of these goals can be achieved without a bit of help, yet neither can they be earned without accepting responsibility and becoming self-reliant.
This ultimate objective of Turn-About Ranch -- this unity of independence, confidence and cooperation -- is perhaps best expressed by a program graduate who was recalling his progress working on the ranch:
I had to have help the first time, but now I can do it by myself.[*]