Our Christian Boarding School Community
The unique setting at Evangelhouse Christian boarding school for girls provides a safe community that we believe allows our students to grow and study. In our community, we eliminate many of the outside world’s stressors that can hinder our residents from performing well academically and feeling well emotionally.
Many of the stressors in our outside world may create overwhelming situations for our teens that are difficult to cope with. In the interest of fostering beneficial change in our teenage girls, we help them to develop coping strategies. We provide positive community experiences for our girls through community service projects and a supportive milieu.
Community Service at Evangelhouse
It has been demonstrated through academic research that participating in community service may help young people in a variety of ways before, during, and even after their high school years. The advantages of volunteering may impact students’ life at Evangelhouse Christian boarding school for girls on many levels—professionally, academically, and emotionally.
Students at Evangelhouse Christian boarding school for girls in Birmingham have involvement in community service projects that are supervised by the school. Our graduates have told us that the skills they learned through their volunteering at Evangelhouse were useful to them once they started looking for a career. Volunteering teaches them important skills that girls typically can’t get in a classroom. Better communication, teamwork, creativity, problem-solving, and time management are a few examples of these abilities. Employers frequently seek employees with experience in these fields.
Through volunteering at Evangelhouse, girls gain confidence and life experience from community involvement. Students get the chance to work with a wide range of diverse people via their service. They have a feeling of social awareness as a result of this. Our girls gain tolerance and understanding while experiencing firsthand how they can make a difference in their neighborhood.
Therapeutic Milieu Programming at Evangelhouse
The main goal of Milieu treatment programming is to eliminate the stressors that can trigger negative emotions from our teenage residents. In turn, when we achieve de-risking of our residents, we produce a therapeutic setting. Under the protection of a controlled therapeutic setting, our residents are able to develop new coping mechanisms. These new coping mechanisms become their personal set of tools to better cope with and understand the world. As our residents become more familiar with the routine at Evangelhouse Christian boarding school for girls, their ability to feel safe increases. Likewise, in a mutually safe environment, the peer group is able to build trust and make great progress in promoting emotional growth within each individual.
There are many advantages to participating in Milieu therapy. One advantage is that our teenagers learn to accept responsibility for their own actions. Another advantage is that they learn how to open up and disclose their difficulties. Our peer group receives regular feedback during therapy and this allows our residents to observe how their actions affect the community. This therapy setting offers them time to process and reflect on the consequences of the actions or decisions they have made in the past and how they can improve moving forward.
At Evangelhouse Christian boarding school for girls in Birmingham, our residents will participate in milieu therapy and gain coping skills that will help them in the real world.
