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The High Frontier is a residential treatment facility, aimed at helping troubled youth succeed. The facility uses the PPC (Positive Peer Culture)model, developed by Harry H Vorrath. The High Frontier is located in Fort Davis, Texas. It has a self-paced, public high school attached to the program, called the High Frontier School. The school is part of the Fort Davis Independent School District, Region 18. The program houses around 85 students in 10 dormitories, each named after a Texas Indian tribe. ex. Wichita, Cherokee, Blackfoot. One of the dormitories is set aside for students who are helping themselves, and preparing to transition to home, college, or other destination.

The Positive Peer Culture model is often mistakingly called "positive peer pressure". This is not the correct name, but is a suitable way to describe the model. The "groups" are all between the ages of 12 to 18, with some exceptions, which gives the students insight into each other's problems. Each individual is only responsible for helping his/her group, this means that if each student is doing his/her job, every group member is getting help. Vorrath cites this in the forward to his PPC Handbook as "Shakespeare observed that "it is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself""

http://www.thehighfrontier.org/
http://www.fdisd.com/MP.cfm?P=3376

http://www.teenhelponline.com/PositivePeerCulture.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=iNkJyFxntOkC&dq=positive+peer+culture&pg=PP1&ots=lFO0iLLkkI&sig=rVPuii8lIvdH5iJEQsIlKAPGSno&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=Positive+Peer+Culture&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail