Looking for an alternative for troubled boys in Tennessee? Perhaps you will consider Heartland Boys Academy, an affordable boarding school in Western Kentucky. Heartland is an alternative year-round boarding school serving boys from Tennessee.

Heartland Boys Academy enrolls underperforming boys from across the U.S., including from Tennessee. It is non-denominational Christian boarding school that employs adventure as a powerful therapeutic tool for turning around negatively motivated boys. We are an early intervention school with a calling to lead struggling teenagers to realize their specific purpose, or destiny, in Christ.

Heartland exclusively works with troubled or struggling boys. Parents of these boys find it valuable for their boy to experience a new environment here at Heartland that is separate from negative influences back home in Tennessee. We demonstrate love and respect to disrespectful and seemingly unlovable boys who are in need of a better 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 Academics for Teens from Tennessee

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 complete courses at their own speed, with weekly objectives set by instructors based on the student’s program of study. Heartland also supports students to work toward post-secondary goals by offering assistance with college testing.

Students from Tennessee, who attend Heartland achieve phenomenal 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 America.

While the Edgenuity program is intuitive and self-paced, our own certified classroom teachers make sure that the boys 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 progressing. 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 lose out on some on-campus privileges like fun times until they choose 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 struggling teenagers from Tennessee. 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 Tennessee teenagers who enroll have rebelled against their spiritual heritage or have never professed belief in Christ. Heartland offers a safe place for them to renew or gain their faith, perhaps for the first time. Godly character permeates every aspect of life at Heartland Boys Academy.

Where Teens from Tennessee, Can Gain Leadership Training

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

Reversing the Bad Attitudes with a Positive Peer Culture

Heartland acknowledges that adolescents and their families in Tennessee, face huge challenges from the culture. Teens are impacted by a barrage of negative peer pressure. The Heartland plan for change is called Positive Peer Culture (PPC), which states that young people can develop self-worth, significance, dignity, and responsibility only as they become committed to the positive values of serving and caring for others.

Where Adventure Therapy is Paramount

Adventure therapy is an important therapeutic feature of Heartland. We find that boys are more open to communicating and learning while participating in adventure activities, so we use those times to instill positive thinking and to improve their communication skills. It also facilitates improvement in their ability to work cooperatively 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 takes part in our adventure program because of the valuable life skills 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 create a sense of accomplishment. Students do not just participate in the activity; they learn how to do it themselves. This is called experiential learning.

Our staff are trained to manage the adventure program in a safe and effective way for boys from Tennessee. 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 campus teeming with healing and hope for boys from Tennessee. We have been privileged to see hundreds of at-risk and struggling boys 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 fill in our online inquiry form.

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