The Appalachian Mountain Teen Project works collaboratively with youth, parents, and educators to strengthen self-esteem, foster resilience, enrich opportunities, and develop stable, secure relationships in the lives of young people who face difficult life circumstances.

We strive to increase family and community knowledge and understanding of healthy youth development through education and advocacy.

April - August AMTP Trips and Events Calendar Posted

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Quotes of the Week - A Tribute to Elisabeth Kubler Ross

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” -

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.” - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is love? At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Click here to view past thoughts of the week

Click here

to see AMTP partcipants'

powerful presentation

about core values,

triumph over adversity,

and youth living in

poverty during the

NH NEA conference in

Concord on March 15.

Click here

to learn about