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Help for Struggling
Teen Boys …
Adventure Therapy and Addiction Treatment
- Adventure-Based Behavioral Therapy
- Licensed Addiction Treatment
- Accredited Boarding School
Expert Therapy
Our behavioral therapy and addiction recovery teams develop a therapy plan for each boy and work from day one to establish trust, and a caring relationship.
Academic Recovery
Boys with life-controlling issues typically experience academic failure, so we help them get back on track academically, plus career counseling and vocational training.
New life purpose
Boys are able to get excited about their future again, as they break addictions and bad behaviors and learn new positive new ways of thinking.
Real Help for Troubled Boys
Welcome to Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch! Our year-round program combines the proven Teen Challenge approach for helping struggling teens with expert therapy, a solid academic education, and adventure in the beautiful outdoors. Our goal is to help at-risk teenage boys become mentally sound, academically strong, and prepared for a positive future. Our sprawling campus, located in the beautiful Ozarks of Northwestern Arkansas, provides an effective training ground for boys, ages 14–17 1/2. We work exclusively with boys who are experiencing behavioral or motivational issues due to a history of trauma, adoption, negative peer influences, physical abuse, substance abuse, or gaming and/or pornography addiction. We offer a faith-based model of care, family restoration, spiritual renewal, and personal recovery. We are a licensed facility that works with most insurance companies, to help boys recover from self-destructive behavior and dangerous substances while they continue their education.
The First Teen Challenge Therapeutic Boarding School for Troubled Teenage Boys
A licensed behavioral therapy program, professional addiction treatment,
and a sober living Christian boarding school.
Whether your boy needs emotional/behavioral therapy, or residential treatment to break free from harmful addictions, consider what Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch offers that other programs may not.
Why Adventure-Based Therapy?
Wilderness therapy has long been a powerful therapeutic tool to help troubled teens turn around in their behavior. Our program combines wilderness therapy with a therapeutic boarding school and sober living environment, plus ongoing mentoring by our expert team. We use adventure and physical activity because boys tend to listen and communicate more as they are active, versus sitting in a counseling room. We regularly go camping, backpacking, rappelling, canoeing, swimming, hiking, and spelunking (rock climbing and cave exploration). Through shared adventure in the wilderness, the boys learn the importance of teamwork, goals, and perseverance while developing better communication skills and improving their respect for each other and our staff. On campus, boys also experience therapy-based activity through our certified ropes course and zip line, rock climbing wall, equine therapy, team sports, CrossFit physical training, and various indoor and outdoor sports.
We’re An Official Crossfit Affiliate
Our campus features private bedrooms for the boys, not dorms, which we believe is important for each boy’s well-being and safety. The energetic team of therapists, educators, and direct care staff outnumber the boys on campus, working throughout each day to encourage each boy to apply appropriate solutions to his problems.
This program is designed to help your
struggling teenage boy when…
- His behavior or anger is simply out of control
- Counseling and other outpatient treatments are not working
- Behavioral problems are worsening, despite promises to change
- He is placing his (or your) health or relationships at risk
- He is expelled from school or facing legal problems
- He is entangled with friends who are a negative influence
Testimonials
We can’t begin to express how grateful we are for your program and how it has impacted not only our son’s life but ours as well. He began there as an addict who was defiant and angry. He left as a kind, thoughtful young man with a purpose of pursuing God.
Parents
Parent Testimonial 2017
Thank the Lord I had a bold Mom and Step-dad who really wanted the best for me and cared about me so much to make this hard decision to send their kid out for a year, hoping I would come back a changed man. Well not only did I come back a changed man, I will never go back to my old ways.
Peter
Testimonial of a Recent Student
At age 16, I was an intravenous meth user and meth cook. I had given my life to drugs and would have done anything for them. Today, I am drug free, saved, and loving Jesus. I am married and have a child. God has done a miracle in my life.
Drew
Testimonial of a Recent Student
Teen Challenge Endorsers
Former President
Ronald Reagan
“Teen Challenge gives our kids something to live for – a relationship with God, a healthy self-esteem, and a direction in their lives that finally leads somewhere.”
Former Attorney General
John Ashcroft
“Teen Challenge changes the world one person at a time.”
Founder, Prison Fellowship
Charles Colson
“The Teen Challenge program succeeds when all of the government programs have failed.”
Former President
George W. Bush
“Too many young [people] have already lost their lives. Teen Challenge works to change young people’s lives by changing their hearts.”
Television Personality
Art Linkletter
“In my opinion, Teen Challenge is doing the best all-around job of providing the kids with something meaningful in their lives. And that’s what they all need.”
Former US Drug Czar
Dr. John A. Howard
“Of all the programs reported to the Commission, the most successful is the program conducted by Teen Challenge.”
Past Director, AT&T Corporation
Jim Blanchard
“Teen Challenge is one of the most successful programs in our country.”
Teen Challenge Boys Ranch PO Box 20 Morrow, AR 72749