Looking for an alternative for troubled boys in Rhode Island? Perhaps you will consider Heartland Boys Academy, a low-cost boarding school in Western Kentucky. Heartland is an alternative therapeutic boarding school serving boys from Rhode Island.

Heartland Boys Academy enrolls underperforming boys from across America, including from Rhode Island. It is a faith-based boarding school that uses adventure as a powerful therapeutic method for turning around troubled boys. We are an early intervention school with a calling to lead struggling teens to achieve their individual purpose, or destiny, in Christ.

Heartland exclusively works with troubled or struggling boys. Parents of these boys find it advantageous for their boy to grow in a new environment here at Heartland that is separate from negative influences back home in Rhode Island. 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 Academics for Adolescents from Rhode Island

To provide a quality education is also our top priority. Heartland Boys Academy is a fully accredited high school that employs a model of independent study with personalized instruction. Students work through courses at their own speed, with weekly goals set by teaching staff 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 Rhode Island, who come here achieve quick progress towards successful high school completion and beyond. Our partnership with Edgenuity produces an educational atmosphere that builds 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 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 fail to keep up or are having difficulty with a specific 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 choose to get caught up.

Heartland’s Spiritual Focus

Spiritual life is the cornerstone characteristic of Heartland Boys Academy. We believe that ultimately Jesus Christ is the only answer for struggling teens from Rhode Island. We are devoted to introducing every teen to a relationship with their Maker. We lead them toward their spiritual gifting and destiny in Christ.

Many Rhode Island teenagers who come have rebelled against their spiritual heritage or have never professed faith in Christ. Heartland offers an open environment for them to take ownership of their faith as they may never have done before. Godly character permeates everything we do at Heartland Boys Academy.

Where Adolescents from Rhode Island, Can Gain Leadership Training

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

Reversing the Bad Attitudes with a Positive Peer Culture

Heartland recognizes that teenagers and their families in Rhode Island, face huge challenges 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 asserts that young people 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 a primary therapeutic tool of Heartland. We find that boys are more open to discussion and learning while enjoying adventure activities, so we use those times to instill better 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 transformation. It is meant to contribute to character development. Every teen takes part in our adventure program because of the valuable life skills that can be gained. 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 enjoy being able to engage in many activities and new adventure experiences during their stay. Adventure therapy activities 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 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 staff are trained to facilitate the adventure program in a safe and effective way for boys from Rhode Island. The same guides who live with students all week, building rapport and making connections, are then able to instruct the boys during their adventure activities.

Heartland Boys Academy is a campus teeming with healing and hope for boys from Rhode Island. We have been privileged to see many 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.

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