• To give youth a chance to learn the skills and acquire the tools necessary to turn past negative experiences into future success stories by focusing on the strengths of our youth, building on these strengths to improve their self-esteem, self-worth and overall view of a positive and successful future.

• To provide appropriate transitioning skills to empower students to find their future through the use of real tools to build real skills

• To provide working experiences as well as teaching youth the importance of earning and managing money the correct way through hard work and discipline.

• To teach youth how to live within their means so that they are never tempted to or resort to crime.

• To teach youth to understand the consequences they will face with making poor choices while also teaching coping skills and alternative methods to reduce making potentially poor choices or angry choices

• To teach anger reduction

• To open doors to youth that have not been successful in other placements and provide them the opportunity to learn the skills and receive the tools necessary to obtain skills necessary that will lead to employment

• To provide opportunities and programming that contribute to self-awareness and positive relationships through creative expression, aesthetic appreciation, physical activities, various therapeutic approaches and techniques and an overall life-long good health;

• To assist in permanency planning and maximizing successful reintegration to lesser-restrictive settings and/or post-secondary transition, to the extent appropriate for each individual youth.