Here at AOS, we have a level system. It shows how hard you are working and what you are doing. Our clinical team made our system up. When you first get to AOS, you are a Gumby. You get 10 minute phone calls twice a week. You can watch the on-campus movie, but you can not go off campus or go outside during free time. When you feel you are ready, you can move up to Boulder. This takes two weeks. You have to fill out an application along with an autobiography. You have to fill out at least 23 out of 35 meals and have above 10,000 steps. Along with being a Boulder, you get twenty minutes of phone time two times a week. You get to go off campus and can go outside during free time. You have study hall in the classroom. The second step requires a little more work.

To become an Ascender, you must have 27 out of 35 meals logged and 12,000 steps. This means you are starting to take your program much more seriously. This takes four weeks to complete. However, with your application you must also give a past and present paper. This paper goes more in-depth in your past and your present. With being an Ascender, you get 60 minutes of phone time, study hall in the dorm common room, and you get to go off campus twice a week.

Now, the third level is serious. To become a Belayer it takes 2 months of hard work. This means you are monitoring 30 out of 35 meals a day and getting above 13,000 steps. With your application you have to fill out a past, present, and future. Then you must read it out loud to the entire community. When you are a Belayer, your status is high and you're truly caring about your program. You get unlimited phone time, study hall in your room, and you get to get a paying job at the school.

The very last level is very intense. It takes three months of hard work to be a Yabo and this means you're truly becoming an L.T.W.C. You have accepted everything from your past and you are starting to move on. You must log all of your meals and get above 14,000 steps a day. You get no "controlled" foods and you truly get prepared to go home.

However, here at AOS the staff understands that not everyone is perfect. Therefore, they have a set of consequences for you to learn from your actions. A rappel is the least severe. For instance, let's say you were caught skipping activity and you are a boulder. You would become a Gumby for an amount of 24, 48, or 72 hours depending on who gave you the rappel. You would have to fill out a worksheet saying what you did and why you did it. These are the most common consequences. A stumble is a little more severe. A stumble means you may not be holding up to the level you are on in the system. Let's say that you are a Boulder and you are not self monitoring or exercising. You have lost your motivation. A behavioral coach will put you on a Stumble. That means you would move back to Gumby until you start to prove yourself again. You will also have some papers to fill out so if you run into a bump in the road at home you know how to fix it. Now if you get a long fall you'rr in the dog house. Let's say you are an Ascender and you get to go on the Ascender Shopping trip. You took some contraband money with you and bought candy. You will be moved all the way back to Gumby. You will be given a month or a month and a half to move back up. Therefore, that would mean that every three weeks you could move up a level. You would have to move up to Boulder and then back up to Ascender. Now if you get a solo, that's the worst that could happen. This means that your attitude or actions have been or have affected the community. You will eat and sleep away from the community. You will have many work sheets to fill out and this will go on for at least two days.