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

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

Heartland exclusively works with troubled or struggling boys. Parents of these boys find it beneficial for their boy to spend time in a new environment here at Heartland that is separate from negative influences back home in Virginia. We demonstrate love and respect to disrespectful and seemingly unlovable boys who are in need of a new life perspective including a foundational spiritual focus in life. 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 Virginia

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

Students from Virginia, who attend Heartland achieve phenomenal progress towards successful high school completion and beyond. Our partnership with Edgenuity facilitates an educational atmosphere 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 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 can see at a glance how well each student is doing. Students who fail to keep up or are having difficulty with a specific topic are helped, but if they are dragging their feet as an act of rebellion, they may lose out on some on-campus privileges like special outings 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 struggling teens from Virginia. We are dedicated to introducing every boy to a relationship with their Maker. We help them find their spiritual gifting and destiny in Christ.

Many Virginia teens who attend have moved away from their spiritual heritage or have never professed faith in Christ. Heartland offers a safe place for them to renew or gain their faith as they may never have done before. Godly character frames everything we do at Heartland Boys Academy.

Where Boys from Virginia, Can Gain Leadership Training

Besides helping capable students get back on track academically and spiritually, we offer specific leadership training to unleash the potential in each child. We teach teens to serve and love each other. Mission trips and community service projects offer real life experience and application of the leadership principles learned at Heartland.

Changing the Negative with a Positive Peer Culture

Heartland recognizes that adolescents and their families in Virginia, face huge challenges from the culture. Teens are surrounded by a barrage of negative peer pressure. The Heartland plan for change is called Positive Peer Culture (PPC), which asserts that teens 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 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 better thinking and to improve their communication skills. It also helps improve 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 plays a key role in character maturation. 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 an adventure therapy program like Heartland, students get the opportunity 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 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 learn how to do it themselves. This is called experiential learning.

Our team are trained to facilitate the adventure program in a safe and effective way for boys from Virginia. The same team members 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 place of healing and hope for boys from Virginia. We have been privileged to see hundreds of at-risk and struggling boys transformed into hard-working, respectable adults. 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.

To discover discover how our Christ-centered adventure-based therapeutic boarding school program can lead your struggling boy toward life transformation. To learn more, please call or inquire online today.