Welcome to Mountain Top Family Service's Web Site

Mountain Top Family Services is a non-profit faith based and community supported organization located on 488 acres in Sugar Valley, a totally rural setting, on SR 136 in Walker County near Calhoun, Georgia, and adjoins the Chattahoochee National Forest.  Our purpose is to provide housing, counseling, and guidance for troubled or disadvantaged boys and young men ages 10-17 in the North Georgia area and to advise and help build healthy families to which we can eventually return these young men.  We maintain operating facilities and many miles of scenic hiking trails on Mount Chestnut. 

Mission

Our overall mission is to enrich the lives of disadvantaged youth and their families through life skills training using the advantages of our pastoral mountain setting.

We do this through the following three programs:

  1. Mountain Top Boys Home
    Serving disadvantaged and maltreated youth within the Georgia Department of Human Resource’s DFCS (Division of Family and Children Services) and DJJ (Department of Juvenile Justice) systems, we strive to provide a positive example of family through a loving couple family setting. Our front line is to provide a home to boys in need with a live-in married couple who act as parents to the boys, showing them by example the proper relationship between a couple and how each child should fit into a healthy family. This is further accomplished through our well trained staff that assists the home’s parents in the daily activities necessary to run an effective children’s home. In short our mission is to break the cycle of the dysfunctional family of each child.

  2. Mountain Top Family Enrichment
    Our unique mountain scene and the facilities at Oakleaf Lodge give us the perfect environment to bring together and coach the adult members of disadvantaged families who are parents of children within the Georgia’s DFCS and DJJ. Our life skills course is designed to give the tools needed to create better families. This includes job, financial, marital, and family counseling in a small casual group setting.

  3. Children in Wilderness
    Our weekend wilderness program takes groups of young boys and girls from city environments and gives them a quick course in nature through the grand natural display on parade on our five hundred acre Mountain Top Campus. Our non-resident bunk house, one mile Azalea Trail, and adjoining three thousand acres of national forest give an opportunity for young boys and girls to be immersed comfortably into the wonders of nature that are only myths to inner city children.  This program is available to all children with priority given to disadvantaged youth.

Video

You may wish to view a short video showing our facilities and describing our operation.
 

 

Leadership Fitness by Homer Rice

HOMER RICE is giving the proceeds from this book’s sales to Mountain Top Boys Home.

Homer Rice, Georgia Tech’s most successful Athletic Director, has invested in the success of Mountain Top and is donating his book “Leadership Fitness” to Mountain Top.  You can join him by donating one hundred dollars or more and we will send you a copy of this inspiring book that displays why Georgia Tech has as one of its jewels – The Homer Rice Center for Sports Performance.

Homer Rice, all American college quarterback, was once a Dodger catcher and the inventor of the triple option (Georgia Tech’s current offense); a legendary high school coach; a college coach at major programs including a school named before him, Rice University; and Cincinnati Bengals head coach.  However, his moment in time was as athletic director of Georgia Tech.  In the words of Terrance Moore he “turned a pitiful athletics department at Tech into a prolific one.”  Reverence for him is shown in the fact that the trophy given to the top college Athletic Director each year is named after Homer Rice.  The Homer Rice Center for Sports Performance will carry on his vision for achieving the most from what each athlete is given.  Dr. Homer Rice’s belief in the mission of Mountain Top Boy’s Home and our thirty years of changing the lives boys in despair is in itself a motivation to our challenge.

We are grateful for his gifts.

 

 

Please use the menu at the left to learn more details of our operation, how you and others can use our facilities to help meet your needs, and how you can help us fulfill our mission and our commitment to the youth in our area.

 

This page was last updated October 28, 2011.

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