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About Teen Challenge Kansas City Girls Academy
Kansas City Girls Academy is a Christian boarding school on the Missouri side of the state border for girls ages 12-17 with behavioral concerns, including substance use, suicidal ideation, self-harm, poor school performance, and promiscuity. The program typically lasts 15 months, but can be extended when necessary, and costs $9,450 at the time of admission. Cost includes tuition, housing, meals, activities, toiletries, and uniform. Parents can ask about scholarship availability and eligibility prior to admission.
Spiritual mentorship includes group sessions 5 days per week, quiet individual reflection daily, church each Sunday, and discipleship that happens organically during the week. Students deepen relationships during meals, which they eat with staff home style. Recreation and sports are key to the program, both on campus and competing against other schools in volleyball. Boise Girls Academy is equipped with a gym, pickleball court, and basketball court. Girls additionally participate in swimming, disk golf, hiking, and aerobics. Girls participate in chores and receive instruction on how to complete them. Life skills training also includes caring for farm animals, including chickens, goats, a bunny, and a turkey, and helping staff prepare meals. Students additionally participate in service both on and off campus, including beautifying the campus and serving with local community organizations.
Kansas City Girls Academy offers parents weekends once every other month from Friday evening to Saturday evening, beginning after the student has been enrolled for 4 months. Each student has a staff member assigned to them, leading weekly group counseling sessions with other girls and regular individual counseling sessions. This staff member also serves as the point of contact for parents, helping them monitor their student’s progress. Kansas City Girls Academy offers a 3-5 month aftercare plan supporting students and family after completion of the program.
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Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
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Family Involvement
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
Christian
Through surrender and commitment to Christ, patients refocus the efforts and source of their recovery with clinical and spiritual care.
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Spiritual Care
Tending to spiritual health helps treatment become more effective, allowing patients to better cope with their emotions and rebuild their spiritual wellbeing.
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Spiritual Emphasis
Spirituality connects patients to a higher power and helps strengthen their recovery, hope, and compliance with other treatment modalities.
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Family Involvement
Providers involve family in the treatment of their loved one through family therapy, visits, or both–because addiction is a family disease.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
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Christian
Through surrender and commitment to Christ, patients refocus the efforts and source of their recovery with clinical and spiritual care.
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Gender-Specific
Separate treatment for men or women can create strong peer connections and remove barriers related to trauma, shame, and gender-specific nuances.
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1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
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Animal Therapy
Animals can inspire trust and self-worth. In this experiential therapy, guided interactions are used to improve social skills and emotion regulation.
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Equine Therapy
Guided interactions with trained horses, their handler, and a therapist can help patients improve their self-esteem, trust, empathy, and social skills.
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Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
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Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Pastoral Counseling
Based on religious principles, this branch of counseling combines spirituality with psychotherapy.
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Psychoeducation
This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.
Recreation Therapy
In recreation therapy, recovery can be joyful. Patients practice social skills and work through emotional triggers by engaging in fun activities.
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Spiritual Care
Tending to spiritual health helps treatment become more effective, allowing patients to better cope with their emotions and rebuild their spiritual wellbeing.
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Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
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Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
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Self-Harm
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
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Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
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Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
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Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
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Gender-specific groups
Patients in gender-specific groups gain the opportunity to discuss challenges unique to their gender in a comfortable, safe setting conducive to healing.
Healthy Meals are provided
Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.
Religion-Based Track
Patients can join faith-based recovery tracks to approach recovery with others in their faith, healing in a like-minded group with similar goals.
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