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The Connell Center encourages youth to gain responsibility, ethics, self-esteem, team work and leadership through animal projects.
Livestock is used as a medium for therapy. Many children who come to Boysville do not trust adults. The staff teaches hands on activities that deal with socialization. These skills allows the children to feel responsible for not only themselves but for another living being. Recreational therapy with animals enables the child to trust others and begins the healing process.
Through the animal programs, the children learn about the life cycle from conception, growth/gestation and birth as well as survival.
The skills learned at the Connell Center translate through the life sciences and offer different career opportunities to the children from Biology, Veterinary, Chemistry and Education.
The Center encourages participation in 4-H and FFA. Through these programs, a child is assigned an animal to care for and show at project shows and livestock shows. The children learn the skills needed to compete. Through the 4-H program, leadership is taught. The 4-H program has existing officers and a club.
For more information on The Connell Life Skills and Livestock Center, or to donate animals for the 4-H program, please contact, Renee Mosqueda at (210) 659-1901.
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