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

Heartland Boys Academy accepts underperforming boys from across the U.S., including from Indiana. It is non-denominational Christian boarding school that uses adventure as a powerful therapeutic method for turning around difficult boys. We are an early intervention school with a mission to lead wayward teenagers to fulfill their specific purpose, or destiny, in Christ.

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

Accredited Education for Adolescents from Indiana

To provide a quality education is also our top priority. Heartland Boys Academy is a fully accredited private school that operates under a program of independent study with personalized instruction. Students work through courses at their own speed, with weekly objectives established by tutors based on the student’s chosen course work. Heartland also supports students to work toward post-secondary goals by offering assistance with college testing.

Students from Indiana, who come here achieve phenomenal progress towards successful high school completion and beyond. Our partnership with Edgenuity facilitates an educational environment that spurs motivation to succeed, which gains momentum and helps the boys to do their best. 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 classroom teachers make sure that our students reach goals with their coursework. They tutor, answer any questions, and give each student plenty of encouragement. Our teachers are kept informed online how well each student is progressing. Students who lag behind or are having difficulty with a certain topic are helped, but if they are falling behind as an act of rebellion, they may lose out on some on-campus privileges like free time until they choose to get caught up.

Heartland’s Spiritual Focus

Spiritual life is the cornerstone aspect of Heartland Boys Academy. We believe that ultimately Jesus Christ is the only answer for troubled teens from Indiana. We are committed to introducing every boy to a relationship with their Maker. We help them find their spiritual gifting and purpose in Christ.

Many Indiana teenagers who enroll have rebelled against their religious heritage or have never professed belief in Christ. Heartland offers an open environment for them to renew or gain their faith, perhaps for the first time. Godly character permeates everything we do at Heartland Boys Academy.

Where Adolescents from Indiana, Can Receive Leadership Training

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

Reversing the Bad Attitudes with a Positive Peer Culture

Heartland recognizes that adolescents and their families in Indiana, face huge challenges from the culture. Boys are assaulted by a barrage of negative peer pressure. The Heartland plan for change is called Positive Peer Culture (PPC), which believes that teens can develop self-worth, significance, dignity, and responsibility only as they devote themselves to the positive values of helping and caring for others.

Where Adventure Therapy is Paramount

Adventure therapy is an important 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 in synch with others.

Adventure therapy is a form of experiential therapy that uses challenging adventure activities to aid the therapeutic transformation. It is meant to contribute to character maturation. Every boy participates in our adventure program because of the important values that can be learned. We offer many kinds of adventure activities including camping, backpacking, rappelling, canoeing, swimming, hiking, hunting, and spelunking (cave exploration).

At a therapeutic school like Heartland, students are allowed to engage in numerous activities and new adventure experiences during their time here. Adventure therapy used at Heartland are where boys learn to listen, learn regulation skills, and push themselves to accomplish challenging fun tasks. The obstacles the boys 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 reach for a goal and accomplish it. This is called experiential learning.

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

Heartland Boys Academy is a campus teeming with healing and hope for boys from Indiana. 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 lead your struggling boy toward life transformation. To find out more, please contact us today.