Trying to Find Military Schools or Boot Camps for Troubled Boys near Covington, Tennessee?

While you look for military schools or boot camps in or near Covington, Tennessee, perhaps you will look at a therapeutic boarding school for boys that offers better results, without the drill sergeant and trauma of a boot camp or military school. In fact, he will really like it here while he gets back on track in life.

Treasure Coast Boys Academy, on the Gold Coast of Florida, is a residential program and ranch specifically designed for at-risk boys.  It is part of Teen Challenge, a highly-endorsed ministry that has been helping teenagers for 60 years. Instead of the harsh environment of military schools and boot camps, Treasure Coast Boys Academy shows boys the right way to live through example, lessons, counsel, mentoring and team exercises. Also, avoiding distractions and detaching from problematic situations is what helps to open the door to break damaging patterns of behavior. Unlike military schools and boot camps you may find near Covington, TN, we believe that relationships are what make a long-term difference in a boy, not more anger, yelling and force.

Families enroll their sons at Treasure Coast Boys Academy from across the nation, including from Covington, Tennessee, both to let them spend time in a new environment and because of the caring and fun environment they find here. Enrollment is year-round.

You are Seeking for Military Schools or Boot Camps in Covington, Tennessee Because You Likely See these Warning Signs that Something is Wrong with Your Teenage Boy

• Profound changes in his style of clothes, hair, and music
• Hanging out with a bad crowd (a different crowd than they used to)
• Falling grades and disinterst in things he was once interested in
• Isolating from family and clinging to new friends
• Negative changes in attitude and personality
• Changes in sleep patterns (up well into the night, sleeping during the day)
• Consuming way too much food, or way too little, or binging at night
• Paranoia – thinks everyone in authority is out to get him
• Dilated, red or glazed eyes
• Outbursts of anger
• Deception and cover-ups!
• Major mood swings
• Uncontrolled spending or money from the home disappearing.

Treasure Coast Boys Academy serves 50 teenage boys at our residential boarding school on a 30-acre parcel in working ranches and orchards. Over our program, we work to develop character, integrity, hard work, and respect. We cultivate an environment of positive peer pressure. We give boys responsibility for work projects and chapel services on campus to keep them involved in what is their home away from home. We want to see residents mature in their faith in Christ, and we offer worship, chapel services, bible studies, discipleship, retreats and mission trip opportunities toward that end. Students also stretch and encourage each other in their faith. Would any of that happen in a military school or boot camp? That’s unlikely.

A Great Alternative to Military Schools and Boot Camps for Boys from Covington, TN

At Treasure Coast Boys Academy, boys stay physically active and challenged. Our recreational and sports facilities include a well-equipped gym and a professional array of weight machines, soccer field, baseball diamond, basketball court, pool, game room, fishing ponds, and horses. We often go fishing on the Florida waterways and out in the ocean. The culmination of the program is a spectacular wilderness experience in the mountains of North Carolina during the last month of the boys’ stay. Whitewater rafting, hiking, camping, and other adventures demonstrate that life can be at the same time adventuresome and positive.

While we hold individual, group, and family counseling in traditional settings, we know that most life-changing encounters tend to take place during outdoor activities and during ordinary situations. Counseling is offered frequently during the day, in all settings, through conversations with mentors during chores or activities. We place great importance on mentorship, providing the boys with positive male role models during their residence with us.

Our on-campus academy operates year-round to give students the occasion to take care of missed credits. We have on-campus teachers who support the boy’s education and tutor individual students. Boys from Covington, Tennessee quickly catch up on missed coursework or work ahead.

We believe that the most crucial change is a heart change — believing   Treasure Coast Boys Academy gives a once troubled  teenage boy a second chance at a successful future.  Again, unlike military schools and boot camps, our emphasis and main tool is a change of heart, not fear or breaking of the spirit.

“At Treasure Coast Boys Academy…our son received exactly what he needed to get back on track in life. Treasure Coast Boys Academy was a God-send for our broken family…restoring our relationship with our son. It is a place of hope, a place of love, and a place of renewal.”  — Parents of a Treasure Coast Boys Academy resident express heartfelt thanks for the transformation they saw in their son.

To read more of what families and students are saying, and to learn more about how our boys ranch can offer restoration in your family, we invite you to investigate our website, then use our inquiry form or call us today.

Thank you for thinking about Treasure Coast Boys Academy as you seek boot camps and military schools near Covington, TN.