As your teenager enrolls at CALO s/he will immediately begin participating in campus activity and socialization. A seasoned staff member will help your teen by giving them CALO attire and getting the new student set up with all the supplies s/he needs. The new student will then start participating in whatever event is on the daily schedule. The canines are such a constant part of what is going on that canine interaction may be the first thing your teen is involved in. Canine care, feeding, and outdoor time will come quite quickly.

Within minutes of entering the building the new student will start meeting the other students already enrolled at CALO. Initial friendships usually start to form right away. The seasoned staff member who gives your child initial supplies and checks him/her into the program will also answer questions and have a very informal conversation about some of what to expect at CALO. Much of the details of daily life will come from the student community. That socialization process is very organic and purposely left largely unstructured. Along with that unstructured integration the new student will be given a student handbook and he/she will be able to find most any detail about CALO and our program from that handbook. Within the first 24 hours the therapist for the new student will have had a few conversations with him/her and will begin the process of establishing the therapeutic relationship.

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