Trying to Find Military Schools or Boot Camps for Troubled Boys in Stafford, Virginia?

While you look for military schools or boot camps in Stafford, Virginia, 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, located near Vero Beach, 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 make possible break harmful patterns of behavior. Unlike military schools and boot camps you may find near Stafford, VA, 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 Stafford, Virginia, both to let them spend time in a new environment and to experience the caring and fun environment they find here. Enrollment is year-round.

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

• Profound changes in his style of clothes, hair, and music
• Friendship 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
• Dark changes in attitude and personality
• Changes in sleep patterns (up well into the night, tired during the day)
• Eating 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
• Lies and cover-ups!
• Dramatic mood swings
• Uncontrolled spending or money from the home disappearing.

Treasure Coast Boys Academy enrolls 50 teenage boys at our residential boarding school located on 30 acres in ranch and orchard country. During our program, we focus on character, integrity, hard work, and respect. We cultivate an environment of positive peer pressure. Boys learn through work projects, designed to teach them a work ethic and how to manage their own time and resources. We desire to see residents mature in their faith in Christ, and we offer worship, chapel services, bible studies, discipleship, retreats and mission trip opportunities to support that growth. Students also challenge 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 Stafford, VA

At Treasure Coast Boys Academy, we keep boys 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’ time at the ranch. Whitewater rafting, hiking, camping, and other adventures show that life can be at the same time adventuresome and positive.

While we conduct individual, group, and family counseling in traditional settings, we find that most life-changing encounters tend to take place during outdoor activities and in the course of daily life. Counseling is offered frequently during the day, in all settings, through conversations and mentoring during activities and group settings. We place a strong emphasis 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 boys the opportunity to fulfill any missed credits. We have on-campus teachers who facilitate the boy’s education and tutor individual boys. Boys from Stafford, Virginia quickly catch up on missed coursework or move ahead.

We believe that the most important change is a heart change — believing   Treasure Coast Boys Academy offers a once “out-of-control”  teenage boy a second chance at a hopeful 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.”  — Families of a Treasure Coast Boys Academy students share 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 explore our website, then complete 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 Stafford, VA.