Emotional Growth
Emotional Growth or Therapeutic Boarding Schools
Therapeutic or Emotional Growth Boarding School provide a "step down" from other more restrictive environments, often for more non traditional learners. This type of schooling allows students to "internalize" and practice the skills needed to become more successful in the future.
Specialty Boarding Schools are highly effective for teens who have completed a wilderness experience and/or those with oppositional behaviors, low self-esteem, school resistance and/or failure, conflicted family relations, adoption issues or addiction and abuse issues.
There are a wide variety of approaches and models, choosing the school with the "best fit" allows students to have successful futures and for families to continue their own growth and development. Many parents find that their teens go on to an outstanding college setting. Colleges are often impressed by students who have managed and grown from challenges circumstances.
Call Educational Options now to speak with an experienced certified educational planner/interventionist specializing in placement of at-risk youth and adults at 858-922-6888 or use our online inquiry form.
- Are fully accredited, year-round, residential schools
- provide an academic and therapeutic environment 24 hours a day which hold teens accountable and provides academic, intellectual and therapeutic growth.
- Offer credit recovery to those with a history of underperformance
- Accept students through rolling admissions
- Range from college preparatory to occupational or technical skill building
- Focus on character development, accountability, maturity, moral integrity, and positive self-image
- Provide individual, group and family therapy, family education, and support
- Often provide community service opportunities
- Offer individual or team athletic activities
- May offer equine therapy, outdoor adventure including hiking, skiing, skateboarding and musical or creative opportunities
- Require a stay of 12-24 months and serve from 20-150 teens
- Cost $3,500-$7,500 per month
