Searching for an alternative for troubled boys in Nebraska? 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 Nebraska.

Heartland Boys Academy enrolls underperforming boys from across America, including from Nebraska. It is non-denominational Christian boarding school that employs adventure as a powerful therapeutic tool for turning around negatively motivated boys. We are an alternative school with a calling to lead troubled boys to realize their specific purpose, or destiny, in Christ.

Heartland exclusively serves troubled or struggling boys. Parents of these boys find it beneficial for their boy to experience a new environment here at Heartland that is detached from negative influences back home in Nebraska. We display love and respect to disrespectful and seemingly unlovable boys who are in need of a better life perspective including a foundational spiritual focus in life. 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 School for Boys from Nebraska

Our commitment to a quality education is also a top priority. Heartland Boys Academy is a fully accredited private school that uses a model of independent study with tutelage. Students work through courses at their own speed, with weekly goals 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 Nebraska, who come here achieve quick progress towards successful high school completion and beyond. Our partnership with Edgenuity facilitates an educational atmosphere that builds a desire to succeed, which gains momentum and helps 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 classroom teachers make sure that our students keep up 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 fail to keep up or are not understanding a specific topic are helped, but if they are falling behind 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 foundational aspect of Heartland Boys Academy. We believe that ultimately Jesus Christ is the only answer for troubled teenagers from Nebraska. We are dedicated to introducing every student to a relationship with their Maker. We help them find their spiritual gifting and purpose in Christ.

Many Nebraska teenagers who enroll have rebelled against their spiritual heritage or have never professed belief in Christ. Heartland offers a safe place for them to take ownership of their faith, perhaps for the first time. Godly character surrounds every aspect of life at Heartland Boys Academy.

Where Boys from Nebraska, Can Receive Leadership Training

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

Reversing the Negative with a Positive Peer Culture

Heartland recognizes that teens and their parents in Nebraska, face enormous pressure from the culture. Boys are surrounded by a barrage of negative peer pressure. The Heartland plan 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 a Primary Tool

Adventure therapy is a primary 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 better thinking and to improve their 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 is meant to contribute to character growth. Every student participates in our adventure program because of the valuable life skills that can be learned. We offer a number of adventure activities including camping, backpacking, rappelling, canoeing, swimming, hiking, hunting, and spelunking (cave exploration).

At therapeutic boarding school like Heartland, students get the opportunity to engage in various 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 a therapy know as experiential learning.

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

Heartland Boys Academy is a place of healing and hope for boys from Nebraska. We have seen many at-risk and troubled 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 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.