Our Mission

Escuela Caribe is a year round, fully accredited Christian therapeutic boarding school for high school students. Its mission is to assist parents whose children have high potential but are underachievers to train their child in the way he or she should go. Escuela Caribe provides a nurturing environment to train struggling adolescents through a quality educational experience that is challenging and encourages application of biblical principles that impact their spiritual, mental, and emotional character. Our goal is to cultivate a lifetime desire for service and excellence through Christian character enrichment. We attempt to impact the lives of the youth through intensive physical labor coupled with intense relational experiences. Our school has been serving families and teens for over 30 years.

For a hurting family, time apart is very beneficial. Although it is a painful decision, parents soon realize this time is needed in order to recoup and heal from all the turmoil they have experienced.

While living in another country in a structured environment, teens start to appreciate their parents and all the things they have taken for granted. Escuela Caribe provides a place for conflict resolution techniques and problem-solving skills to be developed.

Group therapy sessions and individual counseling are integrated with Christ-centered approaches specific to a child’s need. Culture shock is a form of psychological disorientation produced by a sudden and complete change in one's cultural environment. The effect is proportional to the contrast between an individual's normal cultural milieu and that in which they are subsequently immersed.

A change in climate, ethnic diversity, geographical surroundings, mode of transportation, diet, friends, daily routines, coinage and language all tend to make adolescents remarkably more dependent upon our Christian staff for direction and emotional support, while also rendering them more malleable and capable of new perspectives. Culture shock in a highly structured setting greatly enhances meaningful communication, offering youth extraordinary occasions for making enriching discoveries that inspire personal growth.