This Teen Challenge Girls Academy is an affordable boarding school offering a safe haven for teen girls in Virginia Beach, Virginia and around the nation; teens who have sought to fill a void in their lives through negative peer influences, self-destructive habits, or risky activities.

After exhausting every option in their search to help their daughter, parents in Virginia Beach, Virginia are happy to find the Teen Challenge Girls Academy near Columbus, Georgia. They have usually tried counseling, medication, relocation, mental health approaches, and social service interventions, and getting nowhere. Some have been told by loved ones that it would be best for their girl to get away from home for awhile and from negative influences and peers. So, they seek the help of a Christian boarding school for troubled teens, like the Teen Challenge Columbus Girls Academy.

The typical prospective resident from Virginia Beach, Virginia at the Teen Challenge Girls Academy was that she was once bright and talented; however, because of poor choices or an uncaring attitude, her future has been compromised. 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.

While changes usually happen in the attitudes of teenage girls going through early adolescence, some precipitating factors can leave a void in a young woman’s life and bring out extremely self-destructive and angry behaviors. These factors include:

• Death of a parent or loved one
• Early abuse (known or hidden)
• Divorce of parents
• An absent or abusive parent
• Bullying from others/Loss of friends
• Change in economic status or a move to a new home or school
• Chronic illness of a loved one
• Physical invasion or mental intimidation
• Gang participation
• Excessive interest in pornography
• Negative peer group

As a result of such factors, teenage girls from Virginia Beach, Virginia who register for our boarding school generally demonstrate attitudes and actions such as:

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

Many times, prior to choosing CGA, parents in Virginia Beach, Virginia have sought help from psychiatry and the prescription of medication. While psychotropic medications can help alleviate the symptoms of deeper issues, we have achieved great success in helping girls get off of them once and for all. All but the most severe mental issues are generally triggered by underlying emotional issues, which must be addressed and solved with a clear mind. Psychotropic drugs are reduced over time with the care of our physician and the prescribing psychiatrist.

Most girls who come to CGA in Columbus, Georgia, from Virginia Beach, Virginia have been previously diagnosed with psychological disorders such as:

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• ADD
• Being oppositional and defiant
• Mood disturbances
• Issues from adoption
• Sadness or Over Exuberance

Progression of a typical Teen Challenge resident from Virginia Beach, Virginia:

When a student enrolls in Columbus Girls Academy it is typical for her to exhibit blame-shifting, avoidance of responsibility, and sometimes complete denial of wrongdoing. Soon after enrollment, the resident begins to experience some sorrow for the consequences of her prior behavior. Essentially, she is “sorry” for being caught in her behavior, but she has yet to begin a turning away from that behavior. This may be very similar to the roller coaster that parents have been living with at home — pledges to change, moments of peace, that then again turn to repeat and crisis. Regret does not change behavior, repentance does.

Many times, teenagers have been spared or delayed the heartache of the full-blown consequences for their bad decisions; sometimes by well-intending parents. So, as a result, teens are not always convinced of the need for change in their lives. However, the parent is certain 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 intervening in troubled teenagers’ lives before they go on with life habitually living in a dysfunctional lifestyle.

Here at Teen Challenge boarding school for girls we daily see the total transformation that can happen in the lives of young women. This total transformation displays itself in new ways of thinking marked by:

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

Please call at (334)855-3695 or contact us using the online inquiry form to discover more. We enroll young women from Virginia Beach, Virginia year-round.

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