Meet the Team
This core treatment team member serves as your case manager, coordinates your visits, and provides weekly progress updates to your parents.
Who is the Primary Coach?
This is the starting level for all students entering the program, and it is the only level that does not require a student vote to advance.
What is Learn I?
According to the program uniform guidelines, these three specific items are the only approved pieces of clothing allowed while inside the building.
What are an Ozark Trails issued shirt, program-approved pants/shorts, and slides/socks/undergarments?
Transitions between daily activities are called "T Time," during which all students are required to maintain complete silence and walk in this formation.
What is a single-file line?
This automatically applied intervention stands for "No Fun Activities" and restricts a struggling student from participating in any activities outside of core programming.
What is NFA?
These are the floor staff members students spend the most time with, responsible for maintaining continuous safety, holding boundaries, and helping you practice skills in real time.
Who are Life Coaches?
To advance from Learn II to Live I, a student must have at least this grade average in school, with no Fs in any class.
What is a C average?
To ensure fairness, proper time management, and supervision integrity, students are strictly limited to this maximum duration for daily showers.
What is 10 minutes?
To move from the indoor classroom "Purple Phase" to the outdoor "Yellow Phase" of the Homestead program, a student must pass this specific evaluation.
What is a written exam (covering program policy and safety standards)?
If a student is placed on a Safety intervention, they are strictly prohibited from wearing this common item unless explicitly deemed necessary by a supervisor for physical safety.
What are shoes (or footwear)?
This specific professional meets with you weekly for one-on-one sessions, develops your clinical treatment plan, and provides updates to your parents bi-weekly.
Who is the Individual Therapist?
During this second level of the program, students are heavily focused on "learning about yourself," becoming conscious of their roles in their life problems, and are expected to earn Support and In-House privileges.
What is Learn II?
Except for specific exceptions like nighttime or designated Room Time, students must always remain within these two types of staff supervision boundaries.
What are visual (eyesight) and auditory (earshot) supervision?
This high-risk protocol requires tools like knives and saws to remain within 15 feet of supervising staff, passed only between staff and student, and forbids them from being placed in pockets.
What is Sharp Safety?
A student placed on this structured intervention will be completely separated from the group, must actively complete therapeutic assignments, and is barred from interacting with peers or socializing with staff.
What is Work Mode?
This administrator supports your academic development by monitoring your grades, coordinating with online systems, and assisting with credit recovery or graduation planning.
Who is the School Administrator?
Students on this specific level serve on the Leadership Council, must maintain their school grades with no Ds or Fs, and take on overarching accountability for the student group as a whole.
What is Lead I?
While on campus, blankets are highly restricted and are permitted to be kept in this specific location only.
What are bedrooms (or dorm rooms)?
Before consideration for the Homestead "Green Phase," a student must actively track and accumulate this minimum number of programming participation hours in a log.
What is twelve (12) hours?
When a student is struggling to live up to their current level expectations and is placed on a Level Freeze, their privileges and allowed room items are temporarily demoted to match this baseline level.
What is Learn I?
Decisions regarding a student's treatment direction, level advancement, and transition readiness are never made by one person alone, but collectively by these three core professionals.
Who are the Primary Coach, Individual Therapist, and Family Therapist?
For students on this final level, positive habits and coping strategies have become second nature, and they are permitted to give therapeutic assignments to junior students.
What is Lead II?
Under the communication standards, these two conversational violations—defined as romantic communication and talking about individuals who are not physically present—are strictly prohibited.
What are flirting and triangulating?
This milestone designation relies on a student community recommendation vote and final clinical approval from a Family Therapist, granting the student semi-weekly parent phone calls.
What is "In-House" status?
According to the Emergency Disaster Briefing, this is the designated physical meeting location where everyone must gather for an immediate roll call in the event of a fire.
What is the water pump east of the facility?