Looking for an alternative for troubled boys in Arizona? Perhaps you will look at Heartland Boys Academy, a low-cost Christian boarding school in Western Kentucky. Heartland is an adventure-based therapeutic boarding school serving boys from Arizona.

Heartland Boys Academy accepts underperforming boys from across the U.S., including from Arizona. It is a faith-based boarding school that uses adventure as a powerful therapeutic tool for turning around troubled boys. We are an early intervention school with a calling to lead wayward teenagers to achieve their specific purpose, or destiny, in Christ.

Heartland exclusively works with troubled or struggling boys. Parents of these boys find it constructive for their boy to grow in a new environment here at Heartland that is detached from negative influences back home in Arizona. We show love and respect to disrespectful and unruly boys who are in need of a better life perspective including a new spiritual belief system. Our mentoring and encouragement brings about transformation where there was once only negative motivations and failed family relationships.

Accredited School for Boys from Arizona

To provide a quality education is also our top priority. Heartland Boys Academy is a fully accredited high school that operates under a program of independent study with personalized instruction. Students complete courses at their own pace, with weekly objectives set by instructors based on the student’s chosen course work. Heartland also supports students to prepare for post-secondary goals by helping them prep for college testing.

Students from Arizona, who attend Heartland achieve phenomenal progress towards successful high school completion and beyond. Our partnership with Edgenuity produces an educational environment that builds a desire to succeed, which gains momentum and encourages students to do their best. Edgenuity is certified by COGNIA, the highest accrediting body for schools in America.

While the Edgenuity program is intuitive and self-paced, our own certified on-campus teachers make sure that the boys keep up their coursework. They tutor, answer any questions, and give each student plenty of encouragement. Our teachers can see at a glance how well each student is doing. Students who lag behind or are not understanding a certain topic are helped, but if they are dragging their feet as an act of rebellion, they may lose out on some on-campus privileges like fun times until they choose to get caught up.

Heartland’s Spiritual Focus

Spiritual life is the cornerstone component of Heartland Boys Academy. We believe that ultimately Jesus Christ is the only answer for troubled youth from Arizona. We are dedicated to introducing every boy to a relationship with their Maker. We lead them toward their spiritual gifting and purpose in Christ.

Many Arizona teenagers who attend have moved away from their spiritual heritage or have never professed belief in Christ. Heartland offers a safe place for them to renew or gain their faith as they may never have done before. Godly character surrounds everything we do at Heartland Boys Academy.

Where Boys from Arizona, Can Gain Leadership Training

Besides helping capable students learn to apply themselves academically and spiritually, we present specific leadership training to unleash the potential in each boy. We teach teens to serve and love other people. Mission trips and community service projects offer real life experience and application of the leadership principles demonstrated at Heartland.

Changing the Negative with a Positive Peer Culture

Heartland acknowledges that teens and their parents in Arizona, face enormous pressure from the culture. Boys are impacted by a barrage of negative peer pressure. The Heartland model for change is called Positive Peer Culture (PPC), which believes that young people can learn self-worth, significance, dignity, and responsibility only as they embrace the positive values of serving and caring for others.

Where Adventure Therapy is Paramount

Adventure therapy is a key therapeutic tool of Heartland. We understand that boys are more open to communicating and learning while participating in adventure tasks, so we use those times to instill positive thinking and to improve their communication skills. It also helps improve their ability to work cooperatively with others.

Adventure therapy is a type of experiential therapy that uses challenging adventure activities to aid the therapeutic healing process. It is meant to contribute to character maturation. Every boy takes part in our adventure program because of the valuable life skills that can be learned. We offer many kinds of adventure activities including camping, backpacking, rappelling, canoeing, swimming, hiking, hunting, and spelunking (cave exploration).

At an adventure therapy program like Heartland, students get the opportunity to engage in various activities and new adventure experiences during their time here. Adventure therapy activities at Heartland are where boys learn to listen, learn regulation skills, and push themselves to accomplish challenging fun tasks. The challenges students face through our adventure programming are meant to forge a more positive identity, build character, and develop a sense of accomplishment. Students do not just participate in the activity; they reach for a goal and accomplish it. This is called experiential learning.

Our staff are trained to manage the adventure program in a safe and effective way for boys from Arizona. The same team members who live with students all week, building rapport and making connections, are then able to instruct students during their adventure activities.

Heartland Boys Academy is a campus teeming with healing and hope for boys from Arizona. We have seen hundreds of at-risk and troubled teens transformed into hard-working, respectable young men. We help restore boys to their families; healthy, confident, and spiritually and academically on track. Call (888)300-2830 to learn more today, or contact us through our online inquiry form.

To discover discover how our Christ-centered adventure-based therapeutic boarding school program can move your troubled teen toward life transformation. To find out more, please contact us today.