Lotts'
Legacy Boarding School
PROGRAM
Personal
Maintenance
Goal
setting, daily planning, implementing plans, evaluating
progress on a daily basis will be taught, guided, and evaluated.
Assessments
and group counseling will be done frequently on attitudes,
behaviors, and relationships.
Physical
fitness-diet and exercise-is recognized as crucial to overall
well-being and success. Both diet and exercise, as well
as wise use of time, will be standard expectations and will
be taught, modeled, evaluated, and rewarded.
The
youth at Lotts' Legacy will be expected to practice appropriate
personal hygiene. We believe that such habits and behaviors
can enhance a positive self-concept and self-worth-and vise
versa.
"Adjust
your attitude and your focus will become sharper." "I am
the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul." -Wm
Earnest Henley
Family-Team
Living
"Keep
company with those who make you better."
There's
no place like home where a "family" loves accepts, helps,
and supports one another. Lotts' Legacy will operate around
that concept-First and Foremost! There will be a special
place for each individual in our Lotts' Legacy Family. In
that safe, secure place, we will recognize, nurture, and
reinforce each youngster's efforts, progress, accomplishments,
and self-worth.
There will be opportunities for learning about and for implementing
responsibilities involved with being a family member. Responsibilities
will include house chores-cooling, cleaning, laundry, shopping,
"taking out the trash," mowing the grass, feeding the cat,
and all other things related to home operations. They will
be assigned and taught. Also included will be privileges
earned when tasks have been completed appropriately and
loss of privileges when they are not.
Youngsters
will be expected to share facilities, space, and time appropriately
(each bedroom and bathroom facilitates two teens). In some
situations, even "big brothers-little brother, "big sister-little
sister" mentoring will be expected. Opportunities to practice
"respect for others," and respect for the parent/authority
figure will be plentiful-and pleasant. This is the phase
that will teach life's "balancing" of attitudes, time and
skills.
"A
boat doesn't go forward if each is rowing his own way."-African
Proverb
Academic
Excellence
"Man's
mind, once stretched by a new idea, never gains its original
dimension."-Oliver Wendall Holmes
"Turning
on to learning is our basic objective in this phase
of the program. With fully credentialed and experiences
educators, who believe that all learning must RELEVANT,
the emphasis is on the concepts of intrinsic motivation
to learning, problem solving, application, experiential
learning etc. All will be done to meet the core curriculum
guidelines for credits that will transfer to the teen's
public or private school back home. Each student will have
an individualized, educational plan that will be self-paced
as appropriate and conducive to their learning style.
Many times youth have developed poor study skills-if any
at all. For those who need these skills, attention will
be given on an individual basis with careful follow-up on
all out-of-class assignments and homework.
Lotts'
Legacy's innovative instruction and study techniques are
structured to encourage and motivate students to maximize
their learning and then to appropriately and successfully
apply that to the many available relative life-related activities
on a daily basis. Lotts' Legacy's highly structured environment
accommodates those teens diagnosed with ADD and ADHD.
"Your
work may be finished someday, but your education, never."
-Alexandre Dumas the Elder
Service/Community
Involvement
"What
wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-Pierre Rousseau
If
one thing makes Lotts' Legacy unique from any other, it
is the community service/involvement-learning how to be
an asset to a community rather than a liability. This phase
is based on Aristotle's belief that "Doing good things makes
good people!" and we add "Good people do good things!"
Lotts'
Legacy believes there's good in everyone; therefore, we've
structured this aspect of the program to immerse the good,
young people into community living-REAL COMMUNITY LIVING!!
To learn to serve others; to know how good it feels to help
someone; to give to someone; to buy-in to community concepts;
to earn the trust and respect of others by giving of self!
The
Lotts' Legacy youth will become a true part of the community-they
will assess community needs (as they see them), prioritize,
plan, implement, and evaluate various types of projects
and all resulting in enhanced feelings of self-worth and
learning how to give back to humanity.
"Everybody
can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don't
have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to
make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need
a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." --Martin
Luther King Jr.
Equine
Experience
Today's
youth need application opportunities for human relations
skills-learning to cope with others unique mannerisms, responding
to being needed by others, giving and deserving/earning
unconditional love, making appropriate split-second decisions,
etc. Lotts' Legacy equine phase provides structured, guided
opportunities for youth to master these skills by working
with horses.
The
Equine Experience phase at Lotts' Legacy is designed to
provide youth with more than an opportunity to learn new
human relations skills-it will also provide the opportunity
to learn complete, appropriate horse care as well as horsemanship
and showmanship skills. Horsemanship (on horseback) will
only be incorporated when youth reach the appropriate skill
level. The youth who chose to participate in this phase
of Lotts' Legacy's program will learn to respond comfortably
to being needed by their friend, being responsible for another's
well-being, respecting and being respected by another, trusting
and being trusted, and taking pride in themselves, their
appearance and performance and also they appearance and
performance of their horses.
Equine
Experiential Learning is an intervention designed to assist
youth in the development of skills utilizing the unique
nature of horses and horsemanship. Horses have the capacity
to exhibit behavioral and emotional responses that are in
turn used to process appropriate reactions for youth who
are working with them.
Caring
for a horse can teach relative life skills and responsibilities
that transfer easily to all phases of successful living.
In addition, it exposes youth to aspects of numerous, very
fulfilling recreational options involving horses.
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become
the best that you can become." --Harold Taylor
The
Community
"The
big question is whether you are going to be able to say
a hardy YES to your adventure." -Joseph Campbell
Lotts'
Legacy believes "It takes a whole community to raise
a child" and has chosen the perfect place for this
program to exist. Located in rural Southern Utah, the community
of Escalante offers just the right balance of essential
ingredients for Lotts' Legacy to succeed.
Youth
participants and their families will develop a love for
Escalante, Utah, and her people, as well as the program,
that will last forever.
Lotts'
Legacy is located in a unique area offering a wide variety
of recreational activities to those living there and to
those who visit.
We
believe that a "family that plays together stays together-when
we get our work finished!" 
At Lotts' Legacy we do a lot of working and we do a lot
of playing too! Some of our recreational activities are
hiking, camping, fishing, ATV's, water sports and winter
sports.
Live
the ADVENTURE!!!
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