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Total Transformation
Company Description
Total Transformation in Westbrook, ME is a wilderness therapy program that immerses teens in nature to foster self-discovery and healing.
In addition to core services, the program incorporates faith-based principles that encourage spiritual growth and outdoor experiences that build resilience...
Indiana Center for Recovery offers an adolescent treatment program designed specifically for teens ages 12–17 who are struggling with substance use, mental health concerns, or both. On its official Adolescent Program page, the organization presents the program as a teen-focused, homelike residential setting with 24/7 monitoring and support, intended to help adolescents build stability and confidence while engaging in intensive treatment. The program overview highlights a structured approach that combines therapy with daily routines and skill-building. Indiana Center for Recovery...
Spectrum Care Academy located in Columbia, KY is a therapeutic boarding school blending accredited academics with clinical care. Students follow structured schedules that integrate classroom learning, individual therapy, group sessions, and recreational activities. This holistic approach helps adolescents manage mental health challenges while staying on track academically. Teachers and therapists collaborate to create individualized plans that address each student's needs. Serving Co-ed, ages 13–17, the program aims to help young people overcome obstacles and build confidence. Families are encouraged to...
Sunset Bay Academy located in PMB. # 828 San Ysidro, CA is a therapeutic boarding school blending accredited academics with clinical care. Students follow structured schedules that integrate classroom learning, individual therapy, group sessions, and recreational activities. This holistic approach helps adolescents manage mental health challenges while staying on track academically. Teachers and therapists collaborate to create individualized plans that address each student's needs. Serving Co-ed, ages 13–17, the program aims to help young people overcome obstacles and build confidence....
Company Location
641 E. San Ysidro Blvd. Suite B3, PMB. # 828 San Ysidro, CA 92173 888-202-4601
Promise Village located in Davisburg, MI is a therapeutic boarding school blending accredited academics with clinical care. In addition to core services, the program incorporates faith-based principles that encourage spiritual growth. Students follow structured schedules that integrate classroom learning, individual therapy, group sessions, and recreational activities. This holistic approach helps adolescents manage mental health challenges while staying on track academically. Teachers and therapists collaborate to create individualized plans that address each student's needs. Serving Boys, ages 13–17, the program aims...
Julian Youth Academy located in Chino, CA is a therapeutic boarding school blending accredited academics with clinical care. In addition to core services, the program incorporates faith-based principles that encourage spiritual growth. Students follow structured schedules that integrate classroom learning, individual therapy, group sessions, and recreational activities. This holistic approach helps adolescents manage mental health challenges while staying on track academically. Teachers and therapists collaborate to create individualized plans that address each student's needs. Serving Boys, ages 13–17, the program...
Discovery Academy in Provo, UT is a wilderness therapy program that immerses teens in nature to foster self-discovery and healing. In addition to core services, the program incorporates faith-based principles that encourage spiritual growth and outdoor experiences that build resilience and teamwork. Participants live and learn in the outdoors, tackling challenges like hiking, navigation, and campcraft under the guidance of therapists and field guides. The natural setting strips away distractions and allows teens to focus on building coping skills, resilience,...
Alexander Youth Network’s Residential Treatment Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, provides a structured, relationship‑focused therapeutic home for adolescents ages 13–17 with advanced mental and behavioral health needs. The program operates under a 24‑hour residential model where children receive individualized treatment plans, dedicated treatment teams and sessions with licensed therapists. The organization explains that this around‑the‑clock care delivers a structured therapeutic environment that helps youth stabilize and build healthy relationshipshttps://www.alexanderyouthnetwork.org/residential-treatment-center-rtc-greensboro-nc/#:~:text=The%20Residential%20Treatment%20Center%20,clock%20therapeutic%20model. A board‑certified child and adolescent psychiatrist directs the program, and on‑site...
East Mountain Youth Lodge is a residential treatment program in Belle Mead, New Jersey operated by Carrier Clinic (Hackensack Meridian Health). It serves adolescents ages 13–17 who need a structured, supervised setting for stabilization and intensive psychiatric treatment. Families may consider East Mountain when a teen is experiencing serious mood or behavioral health symptoms that are interfering with safety, school participation, and family functioning, and outpatient care is not enough. The program describes individualized treatment delivered by a multidisciplinary team...
Company Location
45 East Mountain Road Belle Mead, NJ 08502 800-933-3579
Johnson County Mental Health Center’s Adolescent Center for Treatment (ACT) is a small residential substance use treatment program for teens in Olathe, Kansas. The county describes ACT as an 11-bed, 24/7 staffed residential facility for adolescents who are experiencing problems related to alcohol or other drugs and who need a structured environment to begin recovery. ACT notes that its approach is trauma-informed and supported by licensed clinicians, case managers, and direct care staff. The program’s stated goals include helping teens...
Pacific Quest is a licensed therapeutic living program on the Island of Hawai‘i that combines clinically sophisticated mental health care with immersive nature‑based experiences. Situated on the five‑acre Reed’s Bay campus along the Hilo Bay coastline, the adolescent program serves youth ages 13–17 and features botanical gardens, freshwater ponds, ocean access and an 8,000‑square‑foot facility with bunkrooms, a large kitchen and spaces for yoga, group sessions and community gatheringshttps://pacificquest.org/adolescents/#:~:text=The%20Adolescent%20program%20is%20based,yoga%2C%20group%20sessions%2C%20and%20gathering. Students live in secure dormitories monitored by awake staff every night and...
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