Looking for Military Schools or Boot Camps for Troubled Boys in Spartanburg, South Carolina?

While you search for military schools or boot camps in Spartanburg, South Carolina, perhaps you will consider a therapeutic boarding school for boys that offers better results, absent the drill sergeant and harshness 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 school specifically designed for at-risk boys.  It is part of the highly celebrated Teen Challenge program. Rather than 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, removing distractions and detaching from problematic situations is what helps to open the door to break destructive patterns of behavior. Unlike military schools and boot camps you may find near Spartanburg, SC, 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 country, including from Spartanburg, South Carolina, 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 Looking for Military Schools or Boot Camps in Spartanburg, South Carolina Because You Likely See these Troublesome Signs that Something is Wrong with Your Boy’s Behavior:

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

Treasure Coast Boys Academy cares for 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 create a culture of positive peer pressure. We give boys ownership in work projects and chapel services on campus to keep them engaged in what is their home away from home. We desire to see young men mature in their faith in Christ, and we provide worship, chapel services, bible studies, discipleship, retreats and mission trip opportunities to support that growth. Boys also stretch and support each other in their faith. Would any of that happen in a military school or boot camp? That’s unlikely.

A Better Option than Military Schools and Boot Camps for Boys from Spartanburg, SC

In the boys ranch, our residents remain physically and mentally active and challenged throughout their stay. 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 highlight of the program is a spectacular wilderness experience in the mountains of North Carolina during the last month of the boys’ residency. Whitewater rafting, hiking, camping, and other adventures show that life can be simultaneously adventuresome and constructive.

While we offer individual, group, and family counseling in traditional settings, we know that most life-changing encounters tend to occur during outdoor activities and in the course of daily life. Counseling is offered frequently during the day, in all settings, through conversations with mentors during work or recreation. We place great importance on mentorship, providing the boys with positive male role models during their enrollment with us.

Our on-campus academy is in session year-round to give students the occasion to catch up on missed credits. We have on-campus teachers who support the boy’s education and tutor individual students. Boys from Spartanburg, South Carolina quickly catch up on missed coursework or work ahead.

— accepting  that Jesus Christ has a purpose and a plan for each individual’s life. Through biblical studies, exciting chapel services, the daily discipline of chores, and regular attendance in our private school, Treasure Coast Boys Academy offers a once “at-risk”  teenage boy a second chance at a promising 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 gratitude for the transformation they witnessed in their son.

To read more of what families and students are saying, and to find out more about how our boys ranch can offer restoration in your family, we invite you to explore 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 Spartanburg, SC.