Why Samoa?

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Coral Reef Academy's location in Samoa is key to the healing process your child will experience.

As we are all acutely aware, life in America can be hectic and confusing. For all that is good about our nation, there are many dynamics that tend to compromise the developmental progress of our youth. If the youth is struggling already, these dynamics only intensify.

Removed from an environment and culture that may contribute to the breakdown of values, respect and responsibility, Samoa provides a calming influence like no other location.

The culture of Samoa is extremely therapeutic in addressing the issue of egocentrism in adolescents. What this means is the sense of being the "center of the universe" that many of our American teenagers experience, and often stands in the way of their development, is not reinforced within the structures of the Samoan culture.

Interestingly enough, in Samoa the individual system is the least important. Instead, in terms of order of significance, one would start with the family, move to the village and lastly would come the individual.