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

After exhausting every option in their quest to help their daughter, parents in Georgia often turn to the Teen Challenge Columbus Girls Academy. They have usually tried counseling, medication, relocation, mental health approaches, and social service interventions, and getting nowhere. Some have been told by counselors that it would be best for their girl to get away from home for awhile and from negative influences and peers. That is when they seek the help of a therapeutic boarding school, like the Teen Challenge’s Columbus Girl’s Academy.

The usual prospective resident from Georgia at the Teen Challenge Girl’s Academy in Alabama was once bright and talented; 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 teenage girl who once sought her parents’ direction, love, approval and acceptance, now has sifted to her peers to fulfill those needs; she is willing to follow them down a dark path in life.

Girls from Georgia who register for our Teen Challenge for Girls program generally exhibit issues and behaviors such as when they arrive:

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

Usually, prior to selecting CGA, parents in Georgia have gotten help from psychiatry and the use of medication. While such medications can help alleviate the symptoms of problems, we have achieved significant success in weening girls off of them once and for all. All but the most severe mental issues are generally precipitated by underlying emotional issues, which must be addressed and solved with a clear mind. Psychotropic drugs are eliminated over time with the supervision of our physician and the family’s psychiatrist.

Columbus Girls Academy is the Right Answer

Usually, adolescents have been spared or delayed the trouble of the full-blown consequences for their poor decisions; sometimes by well-intending adults. So, as a result, teenagers are not always confident of the need for a different way of living. However, the parent is convinced of the need for intervention, because their teenager is obviously headed for lifelong trouble if such actions persist. The Teen Challenge Columbus Girls Academy is an intervention program, hopefully helping make a change in troubled teenagers’ lives before they go on with life habitually living in a self-destructive 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 displays itself 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
• Academic improvements
• Gifts and talents begin to come to the surface
• Becomes a positive influence on her peers
• Speaks truthfully and makes the truth a part of her life
• Submits to those in authority
• Begins to have a vision for a productive future
• A happy and serene attitude.

Please call at (334)855-3695 or contact us using the online inquiry form to learn girls from Georgia year-round.

Teen Challenge for girls enrolls girls from Georgia and around the country who are struggling with life-controlling issues. Visit the remainder of this website 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.  There are other such Teen Challenge programs across the United States.