Heartland Boys Academy is a small Christian boarding school in Western Kentucky developed specifically for troubled boys, ages 12-17. We enroll boys year-round from across the nation. Call us today!
Heartland Boys Academy uses an adventure-filled program while ensuring that the boys earn elevated levels of trust, responsibility, authority, and privilege. Boys are built up spiritually and in their confidence and thoughtfulness, allowing them to successfully return to home life, or continue on to college, vocational training, or employment. We strongly push the boys toward a vocation or to move toward more training once they leave Heartland Boys Academy, which gives them the reason to keep a straight head and their eye on the target for their future, so they don’t fall back into old ways of thinking and acting.
A variety of outdoor activities encourage healthy living, commitment to others and teamwork.
Boys at Heartland Boys Academy participate in fun activities as they earn the opportunity by keeping up on their school work and are behaving well. On-campus, we have a number of sports and adventure opportunities and physical training activities.
All activities and training on campus are meant to build discipline and offer time for our staff to bond with and to offer an opportunity for our team to mentor the boys.
Each student at Heartland has an exciting opportunity to explore the Western Kentucky wilderness and do the kinds of things that boys love. That includes hiking, hunting, fishing, exploring, camping, cave spelunking, and many other outdoor adventures. While the boys experience fun in the wilderness, our team of counselors and mentors work on their thinking and behaviors. For boys who once had no hope for their own future, this adventure-based experience shows them that life can be exciting without drugs, alcohol, electronic games, or the other negative factors and influences that were a big part of their previous life.
“Heartland was the best decision we have made in our entire life. Our son’s life was saved from destruction on this earth and for eternity. The education at Heartland was the finest he could have received anywhere. He became a self-disciplined student with motivated study habits and finished with a 3.9 GPA. He now has the desire and compassion to serve in his community and church, as well as tutoring and mentoring younger kids.”
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Heartland is an adventure-based boarding school for troubled boys. But should you need help finding boarding schools, therapeutic ranches, Christian boarding schools, boys homes, troubled teen schools or residential ranch school, please let us know. Parents looking for boarding schools for troubled boys and military school for boys typically have a troubled boy. Such boarding schools for boys and boys homes provide counseling for troubled teens. Other boys-only boarding schools and therapeutic boarding schools for boys are places to send troubled youth. The difference between an all-boy military school and a trouble teen therapeutic school has to do with discipline and methods they use. Typical boarding schools and military are not places to send troubled youth, since they have no therapy and little discipline for troubled boys — they usually will not enroll troubled teens and are not considered troubled teen schools. Christian boarding schools for boys are an exception, since they use a faith-based focus to bring about life transformation. Religious boarding schools for boys can provide troubled teen help in their troubled youth residential programs. Low-cost Christian boarding schools like Heartland Boys Academy help at-risk troubled teen boys. The therapeutic residential school uses adventure therapy (sometimes called wilderness therapy) to help troubled boys who are at-risk, defiant, or out of control. It helps solve behavioral disorders in boys with with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD or ADHD), and teens who are misbehaving. Heartland Boys Academy is a good choice for parents seeking military schools or boot camps for a troubled teen boy.