Outdoor Adventure. Outstanding Clinical Therapy. Residential Treatment Center in Missouri for Teenage Boys and Girls
Ozark Trails Academy is a residential treatment center in Missouri serving troubled teen boys and girls who are experiencing future-impacting relational or emotional difficulties brought on by trauma.
Providing outstanding clinical therapy, incredible academic learning, and amazing outdoor responsibility and adventure, teen girls and boys, ages 13-19, who are looking for help will discover real change.
Ozark Trails Academy residential treatment center in Missouri provides family-focused and individual treatment care by licensed clinical therapists. Troubled teens experience true healing and growth at our safe, remote residential treatment center home, school and ranch here in the beautiful Ozarks in Missouri.
With room for up to 12 teen girls and 12 teen boys, ages 13-19, Ozark Trails Residential Treatment Center in Missouri offers a “wilderness meets adventure” style program, as well as pure residential treatment, and focused academics. Students live in separate dormitories, based in our 32,000-square-foot building on campus that also includes classrooms, open meeting space, kitchen, and a dining room. We also offer students transitional living options as they move from high school into two free years of college through Southwest Missouri State College.
Disconnect from the outside world at Ozark Trails Academy Residential Treatment Center in Missouri
Hidden deep in the hills of Southern Missouri on a beautiful 750-acre ranch surrounded by thousands of acres of the Mark Twain National Forest, Ozark Trails Academy residential treatment center in Missouri has the luxury of being in an environment that lets youth completely disconnect from the outside vices of the world.
The nature setting allows students to commit their full attention to themselves, their individualized treatment, the peer dynamics at Ozark Trails, and their families, all intentional components of the clinical therapy. This is made possible with unlimited access to spring rivers, caves, climbing, hiking, equine, and biking trails, that provide the perfect balance of nature, with a safe home-type environment.
All of the environmental components at Ozark Trails allow for an intensive clinical experience to occur while methodically, comprehensively, and thoroughly addressing each student’s treatment needs. Research demonstrates better post-treatment outcomes when youth participate in wilderness therapy in conjunction with residential treatment.
This addition of adventure therapy here at Ozark Trails Residential Treatment Center in Missouri is consistent with that research and helps your teen start to reconnect with himself, herself, you, and others. This is part of the beauty of our unique location. There is so much to do here, the experiences themselves end up doing the teaching for us. These experiences, along with reflection time alone and as a group, help your teen process emotions, examine personal behavior, interact socially, develop relationships, and improve self-esteem.
We believe that the unique environment here at Ozark Trails Academy residential treatment center in Missouri offers a one-of-a-kind space for a teen like yours to learn, grow, and develop life skills that will help them succeed in life, long after they’ve graduated.
THE MISSION OF OZARK TRAIL ACADEMY IS TO HELP STRUGGLING TEENS RESTORE THEIR LIVES WITH HANDS-ON THERAPY IN THE OUTDOORS THROUGH WILDERNESS AND ADVENTURE THERAPY.
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