Transitional

Westview Boys’ Home has helped boys climb higher and higher for over fifty years. Westview has always sought to prepare young men for productive lives as ethical citizens. And as our world continues to become more and more complex, we have seen the need for even more vigorous and detailed life-skill preparation for young men leaving the Home and going out into the world.

As a result, we have added a new transitional living program to our existing behavioral managment program and independent living programs. Overseen by Terry and Adrienne Owens, child care workers with years of experience in working with young people, this new program is for young men who are seniors or recent graduates of Westview’s regular program.

As a rite of passage into this program, the young men travel to Colorado to be a part of Wilderness Trek, a Christian adventure program for young Christians. Accompanied by Terry Owens, these young men hike and climb in the Rocky mountains. In July of 2008, they climbed to the summit of Mount Antora (13,269’) in the Sawatch range.

Back home, these young men stay hard at work: taking classes to get ready for graduation, working at jobs to develop a solid work ethic and skills, and training in other life skills as each young man has need.  The Home uses the Ansell-Casey Life Skills Assessment to help each young man determine the areas that most need their attention.

The goal? To have each one of these young men find faithful, successful, and resilient lives in the complicated world in which we live.