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Search for private therapeutic boarding schools for children with academic, behavioral, and emotional problems having difficulty in a traditional school setting. Find residential treatment schools for teens struggling with motivation and low self esteem. Through a structured, emotional growth boarding school environment, students are provided with physical, spiritual, and academic guidance.
Academy at Swift River 
Located in Western Massachusetts, surrounded by the scenic Berkshire Mountains, the Academy at Swift River specializes in working with adolescents ages 13-18 (Grades 9-12) having social, academic and familial difficulties. The Academy at Swift River combines cognitive and emotive approaches in order to allow children time for natural growth within the classroom, the family, the environment and themselves. The 14 month program also provides an overseas community service experience as part of the curriculum.
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Aspen Ranch
A licensed residential treatment center located in Loa, Utah the Aspen Ranch utilizes its nationally renown equine therapy program as one of its tools to help young people. The Ranch combines an academic structure with intensive therapeutic milieu to create positive change emotionally, as well as academically. The strong work ethic inherent on the Ranch is fundamental to adolescents 13-17 cultivating the characteristics of responsibility, discipline, respect and teamwork. Length of stay ranges from six to twelve months. NPS-certified in the state of California.
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Bromley Brook
Bromley Brook boarding school for girls educates young women to be tomorrow's leaders. Our mission is to teach each girl to recognize her own individual needs and to use her self-awareness to achieve more than she thought possible. At Bromley Brook, our faculty is hand-selected for their professional expertise and their boundless enthusiasm for working with girls. Beginning with the admissions process, this faculty collaborates with the student, her family, and referring professionals to create an Assessment-Based Individualized Learning Plan. What makes Bromley Brook School different from other girls' boarding schools? Our emphasis on assessment. Our comprehensive, research-based assessment allows us to create a truly individualized approach to your daughter's education and personal growth. 
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Cedars Academy
The Cedars Academy is a co-educational private preparatory school for students ages 10-18 who demonstrate a need for enhanced academic and social skill development. Our philosophy is that our students can develop stronger academic skills, and will benefit from a more secure and well-developed self-esteem. The program at Cedars is based upon our understanding of the comprehensive nature of the learning problems characteristic of the student we enroll, many who have been classified as having learning disabilities or ADHD. These students tend to encounter difficulties in the classroom, with peers, and among the family because they process and perceive information differently than others. Traditional educational methods have put these students in a situation where failure is guaranteed. We offer a structured education in an intimate academic environment with small class sizes and individual attention. The academic curriculum at Cedars is designed to prepare students for a college-bound course throughout their studies. The faculty at Cedars teach that making an effort to work at each step, as best one can, is the way to be successful.
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Copper Canyon Academy
Copper Canyon, in Rimrock, Arizona, is a boarding school for girls ages 13-17 that are in need of a structured therapeutic environment. The program offers a warm, nurturing environment that promotes emotional and academic growth for every student. The staff at Copper Canyon Academy is comprised of well-trained professionals working with adolescents. Copper Canyon Academy boarding school for girls assists families and gives them the reassurance that there is a wonderful future ahead for their child and family. We truly believe combining a warm, caring, structured environment allows students to progress to their fullest potential.
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Excel Academy
Excel Academy combines academic intensity with a strong culture of personal responsibility to serve emotionally or behaviorally challenged teenagers. Located in a 25-acre rural setting one hour north of Houston, Excel accepts both boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 18. The majority of the academy's graduating seniors have produced first rate SAT scores and English percentiles in the 90's. Excel's academic curriculum offers a wide selection of classes that include honors and college preparatory courses. Excel Academy has a compelling history of success with students who have had previous treatment failures.
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Island View School
Island View operates its own on-campus private school, since resident's education and pursuit of a high school diploma are an important part of the interdisciplinary treatment. The school is fully accredited and certified teachers show the ability to "re-ignite" residents to the experience of learning. A small class ratio of one teacher to sixteen students per classroom enhances the learning atmosphere. Operating on a year-round basis, Island View provides a full six-period school day, five days per week. Students are required to complete daily homework assignments and benefit from individualized attention when required.
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Montana Academy
Montana Academy is a therapeutic boarding school dedicated to helping teenagers in crisis and their families. Situated on a ranch in the Lost Prairie Valley, Montana Academy is committed to quality service, education, and care.
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Mount Bachelor Academy
Located outside of Bend, Oregon, just east of the majestic Cascade Mountains, Mount Bachelor Academy offers a 14-16 month therapeutic boarding school program. The curriculum is designed for adolescents 13-18 who may have behavioral, emotional, motivational problems or learning disabilities. MBA has been providing a well-rounded curriculum integrating therapeutic counseling with intellectual, social and physical growth in a boarding school environment since 1988.
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New Leaf Academy
New Leaf is a therapeutic boarding school that offers a safe, nurturing environment for struggling middle school age girls. At the time of admission, our students are over 10 and under 14 years of age. Our 18-21 month program teaches positive self-expression, responsibility and helps troubled young girls and their families transition to a better place.
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NorthStar Center
North Star Center is a young-adult transitional-living program specializing in assisting struggling students with high school completion, college-prep and college-level courses. Located in the small college and resort community of Bend, Oregon, all students receive personal academic assistance, individual and group counseling, character building wilderness experience and ongoing support in becoming a responsible young adult. Achieving progressive independence to self-reliance is a major focus for all students. The program length is one year.
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StrugglingTeens.com
StrugglingTeens.com is published by Woodbury Reports, Inc. Our goal is to be the leading online source of information for parents of children making poor decisions, and professionals trying to help those families and professionals working with at-risk teens. The focus is on residential Emotional Growth (Character) schools and programs that work. This includes short and long term wilderness and outdoor programs, home style programs, highly structured boarding schools, therapy boarding schools, RTCs and psychiatric hospitals for children with behavior and emotional problems. All emphasize teaching self-discipline, consequences, responsibility, accountability and improved self-esteem.
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SunHawk Academy
SunHawk Academy's long-term residential program combines an intense clinical intervention with an accredited academic program. SunHawk treats struggling teens 13-17 with behavioral and substance abuse problems. During our program, students progress through levels as they achieve specific academic and behavioral goals. Personal growth of students is encouraged through extensive therapeutic activities, which are under the direction of qualified clinical staff. The "Life Skills Training" component of the program gives each child extensive exposure to real life experiences that are necessary to succeed in today's society.
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Teen Boarding Schools
Evaluating boarding schools for teens struggling in school or troubled teens can be overwhelming. Find boarding schools that can not only address your child's behavioral issues but will improve their school work and give you hope for their academic and professional working future.
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The Oakley School
The Oakley School was founded in response to the distinct need to create a boarding school that provides a whole education - one that challenges the student's mind, spirit and body. Here students learn to combine reason with emotion and freedom with responsibility. Oakley students have the opportunity to delve into a variety of learning experiences that help them to discover who they are, what they stand for and who they could be. The school maintains high academic standards in a context that nurtures thoughtfulness, emotional vitality, social responsibility, and physical health.
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Youth Care Inc.
A residential treatment center located in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, Youth Care Inc. is a companion program to Pine Ridge Academy. Youth Care Inc provides individualized care in a family oriented environment. Enrollment is limited to 14 students between the ages of 11-18. Youth Care Inc. provides a therapeutic environment for both mental health and chemical dependency diagnosis. Accreditation is by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations making Youth Care Inc. a preferred provider for many insurance companies.
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Fulshear Ranch
At Fulshear Ranch, young women (age 18 and over) are invited on a journey of self discovery and education. Using a holistic model, participants experience both field-based experiential education and classroom academics, therapeutic groups and activities, life skills and career training, all in an environment which promotes overall health and wellness.
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Hidden Lake Academy
Hidden Lake Academy's mission is to provide a learning experience for students that have not succeeded academically or socially in other settings. They address the development of a whole child. They facilitate intellectual development through academic challenge and support; emotional and social growth through supportive group therapy; spiritual insight through a variety of inspirational opportunities; and physical development through recreational and wilderness based experiences.
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Hope Ranch
Hope Ranch is nestled in the heart of Northwest Montana. Hope Ranch nourishes healing, inspires hope, instills values, and builds integrity. Their mission is to rescue girls from destructive lifestyles, heal them in a safe and caring Christian environment, and prepare them for healthy, productive lives.
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Liahona Academy
Liahona Academy has been helping troubled teens for years. The philosophy of love and discipline has shown tremendous results for parents of troubled teens that have been through Liahona Academy. We understand that many troubled teens need to be removed from their current environment in order to make positive changes and get help. When troubled teens are removed from their current environment, the first step toward help and progress is made.
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Mount Carmel Youth Ranch
Mount Carmel Youth Ranch, founded in 1992 and located on a 40,000 acre working cattle ranch in northwest Wyoming, is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping at-risk young men.
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Perkiomen Valley Academy
Perkiomen Valley Academy recognizes that one of the most important things that we can teach our youth is to value their education. PVA combines individualized education with a thoughtfully planned, community-based day treatment program. As in any school, PVA helps students master structured courses they need to live successfully: science, math, English, social studies and computer literacy, to name a few. But PVA also helps them to learn about life: to recognize the need for personal change and growth, to act responsibly and to assume responsibility for their own actions.
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San Cristobal Ranch Academy
The San Cristobal Ranch Academy is a transitional learning center, where students participate in classroom academics and field-based experiential education. The primary focus of these classes is to teach young men (18 and over) important life skills to further develop their minds, bodies, and spirits.
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Summit Preparatory School
Summit Preparatory School is a private, non-profit therapeutic boarding school for youth ages 14-17 with emotional, academic and behavioral problems. The program combines a college preparatory high school curriculum with a professional treatment program. Expert dedicated and professional staff, a high staff-to-student ratio and carefully designed facility promote a safe, comfortable and nuturing community. Summit is the only special purpose school in the state of Montana to be accreditated by the Office of Public Instruction. The campus's 500 wooded acres and geographic location allow easy access to a variety of outdoor recreational activities, while remaining close to the airport and health care services. Duration of stay is 12-24 months.
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The Grove School
The Grove School is a therapeutic boarding school for emotionally fragile teenagers. The Grove School is designed to meet the needs of adolescent boys and girls (11 years of age and older) with average or above average intelligence, who have been unsuccessful in making a satisfactory adjustment in their homes, in their schools, or in their social relationships.
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Therapeutic Boarding Schools
This informative website offers help for parents considering boarding school for their child. It explains how to choose a boarding school, what questions to ask, and how to deal with feelings of guilt and homesickness.
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