Seeking out an alternative for troubled boys in Maryland? Perhaps you will look at Heartland Boys Academy, a low-cost boarding school in Western Kentucky. Heartland is an alternative year-round boarding school serving boys from Maryland.

Heartland Boys Academy accepts underperforming boys from across the U.S., including from Maryland. It is non-denominational Christian boarding school that employs adventure as a powerful therapeutic method for turning around troubled boys. We are an early intervention school with a mission to lead struggling boys to realize 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 spend time in a new environment here at Heartland that is detached from negative influences back home in Maryland. We show 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 brings about new thinking and motivations where there was once only negative motivations and an impasse in the relationship with their parents.

Accredited Education for Adolescents from Maryland

Our commitment to a quality education is also a top priority. Heartland Boys Academy is a fully accredited high school that operates under a model of independent study with personalized instruction. Students work through courses at their own speed, with weekly goals established by tutors based on the student’s chosen course work. Heartland also encourages students to work toward post-secondary goals by helping them prep for college testing.

Students from Maryland, 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 the boys 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 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 not understanding a specific topic are helped, but if they are failing as an act of rebellion, they may jeopardize some on-campus privileges like free time until they understand it is better 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 Maryland. We are committed to introducing every boy to a relationship with their Maker. We help them find their spiritual gifting and destiny in Christ.

Many Maryland teens who come have dismissed their religious 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 surrounds everything we do at Heartland Boys Academy.

Where Adolescents from Maryland, Can Receive Leadership Training

In addition to helping capable students learn to apply themselves academically and spiritually, we present specific leadership training to unlock the potential in each student. We teach teens to serve and love others. Mission trips and community service opportunities provide real life experience and application of the leadership principles taught at Heartland.

Reversing the Negative with a Positive Peer Culture

Heartland acknowledges that teenagers and their families in Maryland, face huge challenges from the culture. Boys are assaulted by a barrage of negative peer pressure. The Heartland model for change is called Positive Peer Culture (PPC), which states that young people can learn 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 a Primary Tool

Adventure therapy is a primary therapeutic tool of Heartland. We understand that boys are more open to talking and learning while enjoying adventure activities, so we use those times to instill positive thinking and to develop better communication skills. It also facilitates improvement in 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 healing process. It plays a key role in character development. Every boy is a part of 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 therapeutic boarding school like Heartland, students enjoy being able to engage in many 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 challenges the boys face through our adventure programming are designed to forge a more positive identity, build character, and create 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 team are trained to manage the adventure program in a safe and effective way for boys from Maryland. The same guides 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 campus teeming with healing and hope for boys from Maryland. We have seen hundreds of at-risk and struggling boys transformed into hard-working, respectable young men. We help restore teens 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 struggling boy toward life transformation. To find out more, please contact us today.