Seeking out an alternative for struggling boys in Louisiana? Perhaps you will consider Heartland Boys Academy, an affordable boarding school in Western Kentucky. Heartland is an alternative therapeutic boarding school serving boys from Louisiana.

Heartland Boys Academy enrolls troubled boys from across the U.S., including from Louisiana. It is an evangelical boarding school that uses adventure as a powerful therapeutic method for turning around negatively motivated boys. We are an alternative school with a purpose to lead wayward teenagers to achieve 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 detached from negative influences back home in Louisiana. We demonstrate love and respect to disrespectful and difficult boys who are in need of a new life perspective including a foundational 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 School for Boys from Louisiana

To provide a quality education is also our top priority. Heartland Boys Academy is a fully accredited private school that employs a program of independent study with tutelage. Students complete courses at their own pace, with weekly goals established by teaching staff based on the student’s program of study. Heartland also encourages students to work toward post-secondary goals by helping them prep for college testing.

Students from Louisiana, who attend Heartland 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 America.

While the Edgenuity program is intuitive and self-paced, our own certified on-campus 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 doing. Students who lag behind or are not understanding a certain topic are helped, but if they are failing as an act of rebellion, they may jeopardize some on-campus privileges like fun times until they understand it is better 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 struggling teenagers from Louisiana. We are devoted to introducing every boy to a relationship with their Maker. We help them find their spiritual gifting and purpose in Christ.

Many Louisiana teenagers who attend have moved away from their spiritual 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 Boys from Louisiana, Can Receive Leadership Training

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

Replacing the Negative with a Positive Peer Culture

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

Where Adventure Therapy is a Primary Tool

Adventure therapy is a key therapeutic tool of Heartland. We understand that boys are more open to discussion and learning while enjoying adventure activities, 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 form of experiential therapy that uses challenging adventure activities to aid the therapeutic transformation. It plays a key role in character growth. Every boy takes part 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 stay. Adventure therapy used at Heartland are where boys learn to listen, learn regulation skills, and push themselves to overcome challenging fun tasks. The obstacles the boys 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 a therapy know as experiential learning.

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

Heartland Boys Academy is a place of healing and hope for boys from Louisiana. We have seen hundreds of at-risk and struggling teens transformed into hard-working, respectable graduates. We help restore teens to their families; healthy, confident, and spiritually and academically on track. Call (888)300-2830 to learn more today, or fill in 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.