Educational, Emotional, and Spiritual Recovery

“These therapeutic schools are effective, lower in cost, and highly caring alternatives to the more expensive ones.” — Editors of BestTherapeuticBoardingSchools.com

We establish solution-focused therapy techniques to help each student overcome their unique life-controlling problems. This approach allows us to address lifelong problems in a comparatively short program.  Our trained staff work with students to develop regular goals. These goals are agreed upon by the student and are intended to illuminate problem areas and help them find practical alternative solutions to problem areas in their lives.

As a result of trauma, adolescents tend to react in a cycle of hyper-alertness and hyper-avoidance to perceived threats. They may act out by being aggressive or by taking risks. They can also “act in” by giving up control to a peer group.  Our Trauma-Informed Care recognizes the full spectrum of responses to trauma and creates an environment where teens feel safe to recover. 

Trauma-Informed Care is a consistent form of care that is therapeutic in nature. The techniques we use help address the girl’s threat bias.  We prioritize building healthy relationships with each student —”connection before correction”— where girls can feel emotionally safe.  They feel reassured that they belong, have significance, and are being heard. 

We do have parameters about acceptable behaviors, and those are mostly about physical safety. We strive to help students share control in all areas of their lives. In school, teachers help students feel safe in the classroom and offer a variety of ways to learn and achieve their academic goals. We have a gentle routine that helps teach teens to learn to choose and form relaxing habits. Day by day, Trauma-Informed Care helps teens move from needing external controls to having autonomy over their own choices. 

Our residential programs and schools help girls get back on the right track educationally as well as learning that they have a higher purpose and calling on this Earth. We surround our students all day long with a Christian environment designed to help facilitate life change through our team’s witness and guidance.

Our educational program is fully accredited by COGNIA and tailored to meet each student’s specific needs.  Students who complete high school receive an official high school diploma. Credits are transferable. On-site teachers track student progress, tutor students, and offer additional aids to learning as needed. Students who give their best effort in academics are recognized for their achievements and may earn additional rewards.  

Our schools utilize a faith-friendly academic curriculum designed to give students access to their highest potential with Honors and Advanced Placement (AP) course options and credit recovery for students who have lagged in their education.   

Our  counselors also facilitate our own faith-based character-building courses with the girls (individually and in groups), which are a key aspect of our overall program.  We utilize landmark curriculum by today’s leading Christian authors and therapists to teach key concepts for successful living.  Each campus offers unique opportunities to engage in activities to help your teen discover her purpose and value.  

Today, what ISN’t taught is almost as important as what IS taught…
Unlike today’s public schools and schoolbooks, we don’t push a sociopolitical agenda, race theories, gender manipulation, and altered American history. We simply teach the most important skills needed in life and we help our students find real purpose and meaning.