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Help for Adolescent Boys with Future-Impacting Negative Behavior or Addictions

Our expert therapy team at Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch is trained to bring about important life changes and healing for your boy. We offer comprehensive, personalized therapy, addiction treatment, mentoring, and challenging adventures that will help him learn and grow in character. Contact us now. We work year-round with boys from across the nation.

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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.

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Academic Recovery

Boys with life-controlling issues typically experience academic failure, so we help them get back on track academically, plus vocational training.

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New life purpose

Boys can get excited about their future again as they break addictions and bad behaviors and learn new positive ways of thinking.

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Transformation for Troubled Boys

Welcome to a place of transformation and hope! Our program operates year-round, uniquely blending the renowned Teen Challenge methodology with professional therapy, comprehensive academic instruction, and invigorating outdoor adventures. Located in the serene Ozarks of Northwestern Arkansas, our campus is a nurturing environment for boys aged 14–17 1/2 who are navigating life’s challenges. Our focus is on helping at-risk teens overcome a range of issues, including the aftermath of trauma, adoption-related struggles, negative peer influences, experiences of physical abuse, and battles with substance abuse, gaming, or pornography addiction. We’re committed to guiding these young men toward mental wellness, academic achievement, and readiness for a hopeful, positive future. For over 50 years, we have embraced a faith-based approach to healing and growth. Our program emphasizes family restoration, spiritual renewal, and personal recovery. As a licensed facility, we collaborate with most insurance companies, ensuring that our young men can focus on overcoming self-destructive behaviors and substance issues while continuing their educational journey. Join us to empower these teens to reclaim their lives and confidently step into a brighter tomorrow.

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.
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boarding school for troubled boysWhether 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.

A More Thorough Approach to Wilderness 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 also an Official Crossfit™ Affiliate therapy for boys

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 daily to encourage each boy to apply appropriate solutions to his problems.

This CARF-accredited behavioral therapy 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
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Testimonials

A Few of Our Well-Known Endorsers

  • Ronald Reagan

    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.”

  • John Ashcroft

    Former Attorney General

    John Ashcroft

    “Teen Challenge changes the world one person at a time.”

  • Charles Colson

    Founder, Prison Fellowship

    Charles Colson

    “The Teen Challenge program succeeds when all of the government programs have failed.”

  • George Bush

    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.”

  • Art Linkletter

    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.”

  • John Howard

    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.”

  • Jim Blanchard

    Past Director, AT&T Corporation

    Jim Blanchard

    “Teen Challenge is one of the most successful programs in our country.”

Should you need help finding boarding high schools, boys homes, private therapeutic schools, boys homes, schools for troubled teens, troubled teen schools, or ranches for troubled teens, please let us know. Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch is a therapeutic boarding school and boys ranch for troubled teens offering behavioral therapy for troubled teenage boys with teen counseling, including at-risk teenage boys, boys with anger, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This therapeutic boys home and boarding school for boys provides troubled teens with teen counseling, including addiction treatment and behavioral therapy. Our boys ranch serves boys from throughout America, including boys in Texas, in Illinois, in California, in Arizona, in Tennessee, in Oklahoma, in Arkansas, in Mississippi, in Michigan, in Florida, in Indiana, in Wisconsin, in Louisiana, in New York, in Kentucky, in Pennsylvania and in Georgia. As a Christian therapeutic boarding school and boys ranch for troubled teenage boys we offer teen counseling for boys with adoption issues (reactive attachment disorders) and other behavioral issues and disorders like defiance, depression, post traumatic stress, abuse, and general anxiety. If you have an out of control boy, please think about our school for troubled boys. If you are searching for alternative schools or residential treatment centers for boys, addiction treatment for teens, troubled youth homes, troubled teen schools or troubled teen boarding schools, you have found one. A top therapeutic school, we may also be referred to as a “school for troubled teens”. Therapeutic boarding schools and residential treatment programs for teens provide troubled pre-teen and teenage boys with counseling and adolescent therapy.

Residential Treatment for Teen Boys | Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch

Residential treatment center and CARF-accredited year-round therapeutic boarding school for behaviorally struggling or addicted teenage boys.

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