CALO is:

 

• Specialized residential treatment.
• Sensitive to and focused on individual student needs.
• Relationship-centered, utilizing attunement to help the student self-regulate.
  

 

CALO is not:

• Behavior modification.
• A generalist residential treatment center.

CALO provides:

• Transferable attachment through the care, nurturing, and potential adoption of purebred canines.
• A secure base created through relationships with staff, peers, guardians, and purebred canines.
• Direct coaching of relationship skills to the primary care relationship (parents/guardians).
• Experiential successes through aquatic challenges and activities on the Lake of the Ozarks.
  

 

CALO targets:

• Issues of emotion, attachment, and trauma.
• Consistency and rhythms versus a regimented, inflexible, group-based level system.
• Effectiveness over efficiency.
• Lifelong attachment and healing between families and their children.
• Low staff to student ratio (never more than 1 to 4).
• The correction of negative core beliefs.