Teen Challenge programs for girls like Columbus Girls Academy (Alabama) can provide an low-cost safe haven and school for teen girls in Arkansas and from around the country. It works with teens who have sought to fill a void in their hearts through negative peer influences, self-destructive habits, or risky activities.

After trying every option in their search to help their girl, parents in Arkansas often turn to the Teen Challenge Columbus Girls Academy. They have usually tried psychologists, medications, and rehabs, all without success. Some have been told by psychologists that it would be a good idea for their girl to get away from the negative influences in her life and away from home for awhile. So, they make the call for the help of a Christian boarding school for troubled teens, like the Teen Challenge’s Columbus Girls Academy.

The usual prospective resident from Arkansas at the Teen Challenge Girl’s Academy in Alabama was once moving toward a bright future; however, because of poor choices or an uncaring attitude, her life may end up far different from what everyone hoped for. Where there was once excelling grades, there are failing grades. Where there were once athletic, artistic or musical abilities, there is disdain for what she held dear. The young woman who once sought her parents’ direction, love, approval and acceptance, now has sifted to her peers to fulfill those needs; she is willing to allow them to lead her down an alternate and dangerous path in life.

Girls from Arkansas who enter our our Teen Challenge for Girls program typically exhibit issues and behaviors including when they arrive:

• Loss of a positive self-image
• Rebellion/Anger/Defiance
• Self Injurious Behaviors or Thoughts
• Deceitfulness/Cheating/Theft
• Manipulation of family and parents
• Promiscuity/Gender confusion
• Self-Hatred

Many times, prior to selecting CGA, parents in Arkansas have gotten help from psychiatry and the use of medication. While psychotropic medications can help alleviate the symptoms of deeper issues, we have found great success in weening girls off of them once and for all. All but the most severe mental issues are generally triggered by underlying emotional issues, which must be dealt with having a clear mind. Psychotropic drugs are reduced over time with the care of our physician and the family’s psychiatrist.

Teen Challenge for Girls May Be the Right Answer

Many times, teenagers have been spared or delayed the trouble of the full-blown consequences for their inappropriate decisions; sometimes by well-intending adults. So, as a result, teenagers are not always entirely certain of the need for a different way of living. However, the parent is certain of the need for intervention, because their girl is obviously headed for lifelong trouble if such actions persist. The Teen Challenge Columbus Girls Academy is an intervention program, hopefully intervening in troubled teenagers’ lives before they become an adult habitually living in a dangerous lifestyle.

Teen Challenge for Girls offers parents an opportunity to experience the total transformation that can happen in the lives of teenagers. This total transformation become apparent in in positive new demeanors marked by:

• Reconciliation with God and family
• Acknowledgement of past wrongs, accepting responsibility and seeking forgiveness
• Acceptance of the unique individual they are
• Getting caught up in school
• Gifts and talents begin to excel again
• Becomes a good influence on others
• Speaks truthfully and makes the truth known
• Submits to authority
• Begins to have a vision for a productive future
• A happy and peaceful attitude.

We can be reached at (334)855-3695 or inquire using the online inquiry form to discover more. We enroll students from Arkansas year-round.

Teen Challenge for girls enrolls girls from Arkansas and from around the country who are struggling with life-controlling issues. Call us now to learn more about Teen Challenge for Girls.

The Columbus Girls Academy is a Teen Challenge program for girls, located in Seale, Alabama, and it is arguably the most advanced and well equipped and staffed such program in the nation.  Teen Challenge schools are nonprofit, residential therapeutic programs designed for troubled teens. Each school is single-gender. Teen Challenge enrolls students from all over the country, as well as some international students. All Teen Challenge programs endeavor to help transform troubled teens into mentally and spiritually balanced young adults. Teen Challenge schools are cost-effective programs for troubled teenagers who are struggling in life and need focused therapy to get back on track before becoming an adult. Troubled teens are mentored and cared for around the clock at Teen Challenge, and our programs run year-round. Teen Challenge boarding schools for struggling teens are far less expensive than for-profit boarding schools and therapeutic boarding schools.