Trying to find an alternative for struggling boys in Colorado? Perhaps you will consider Heartland Boys Academy, an affordable boarding school in Western Kentucky. Heartland is an adventure-based year-round boarding school serving boys from Colorado.

Heartland Boys Academy enrolls troubled boys from across America, including from Colorado. It is an evangelical boarding school that employs adventure as a powerful therapeutic tool for turning around difficult boys. We are an alternative school with a mission to lead troubled teenagers to fulfill their specific purpose, or destiny, in Christ.

Heartland exclusively serves troubled or struggling boys. Parents of these boys find it valuable for their boy to spend time in a new environment here at Heartland that is away from negative influences back home in Colorado. We show love and respect to disrespectful and difficult boys who are in need of a better life perspective including a new spiritual focus in life. Our mentoring and encouragement brings about new thinking and motivations where there was once only ungodly motivations and an impasse in the relationship with their parents.

Accredited School for Boys from Colorado

To provide a quality education is also our top priority. Heartland Boys Academy is a fully accredited high school that uses a program of independent study with personalized instruction. Students work through courses at their own speed, with weekly goals established 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 Colorado, who come here achieve quick progress towards successful high school completion and beyond. Our partnership with Edgenuity facilitates an educational environment that spurs a desire to succeed, which gains momentum and encourages students to reach their full potential. Edgenuity is certified by COGNIA, the highest accrediting body for schools in the United States.

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 progressing. Students who fail to keep up or are not understanding a certain topic are helped, but if they are dragging their feet as an act of rebellion, they may jeopardize some on-campus privileges like fun times until they choose to get caught up.

Heartland’s Spiritual Focus

Spiritual life is the foundational characteristic of Heartland Boys Academy. We believe that ultimately Jesus Christ is the only answer for struggling teens from Colorado. We are dedicated to introducing every teen to a relationship with their Maker. We help them find their spiritual gifting and destiny in Christ.

Many Colorado teens who come have dismissed their spiritual heritage or have never professed belief in Christ. Heartland offers a safe place for them to take ownership of their faith as they may never have done before. Godly character frames everything we do at Heartland Boys Academy.

Where Boys from Colorado, Can Gain Leadership Training

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

Reversing the Negative with a Positive Peer Culture

Heartland acknowledges that adolescents and their families in Colorado, face enormous pressure from the culture. Teens are assaulted by a barrage of negative peer pressure. The Heartland plan for change is called Positive Peer Culture (PPC), which asserts that young people can develop self-worth, significance, dignity, and responsibility only as they embrace the positive values of helping and caring for others.

Where Adventure Therapy is a Primary Tool

Adventure therapy is an important therapeutic feature of Heartland. We understand that boys are more open to communicating and learning while enjoying adventure tasks, so we use those times to instill positive thinking and to develop better communication skills. It also helps improve their ability to work in synch 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 teen participates in our adventure program because of the important values that can be learned. We offer a number of adventure activities including camping, backpacking, rappelling, canoeing, swimming, hiking, hunting, and spelunking (cave exploration).

At an adventure therapy program like Heartland, students are allowed to engage in many 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 designed to forge a more positive identity, build character, and develop a sense of accomplishment. Students do not just participate in the activity; they learn how to do it themselves. This is a therapy know as experiential learning.

Our team are trained to manage the adventure program in a safe and effective way for boys from Colorado. 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 place of healing and hope for boys from Colorado. We have seen many at-risk and struggling 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 how our Christ-centered adventure-based therapeutic boarding school program can lead your troubled teen toward life transformation. To learn more, please contact us today.