Turning Winds Academic Institute:
Are you looking for a Boarding School, Residential Treatment Program, Boot camp, Military School, Wilderness Camp, or a Therapeutic Boarding School? Turning Winds Academic Institute is a leading therapeutic private boarding school for troubled teens, and provides a comprehensive teen help program for parents of troubled teens between 12 and 18 years, who need the support of professional educators and therapists to turn the lives around. Located in Troy, Lincoln County, 76 miles northwest of Kalispell in northwestern Montana, Turning Winds Academic Institute provides a structured environment as a good alternative to a boot camp or military school. Although we are not a summer camp, we understand the power of the outdoors and spend a good amount of time in the outdoors with those who attend our program. Turning Winds Academic Institute is one of the most successful therapeutic boarding schools in our industry. We are fully accredited by The Northwest Association of Accredited Schools.
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Programs:
While at Turning Winds Academic Institute your son/daughter will go through three program phases; the orientation, transition, and aftercare phase.
Orientation Phase:
The orientation phase is approximately four-six months; however, the length will be determined by the progress of your teen. This is also known as the stabilization phase of our troubled teen program. During orientation, your child will be assessed in three areas: behaviorally, emotionally, and academically. Once these assessments are made by our clinicians and academic teachers, an individual treatmen
t plan will be completed and will act as a road map to healing for your teen during the remainder of the program. Amongst other things, your son/daughter will participate in individual and group counseling sessions, life skills classes, team-building activities and outdoor adventures to cultivate personal growth and internal change.
Transition Phase:
After graduating from the orientation phase your teen will enter the transition phase of the program. The transition phase of the Turning Winds Academic Institute prepares students to transition back into the home environment. During this phase your child will continue to stabilize emotionally, behaviorally, and academically. This is the time that your child will graduate from high school/get GED, start on college courses, get involved in extracurricular activities, start mentoring peers, and engage in off-campus activities. This is also the time when you as parents will start the one-on-one counseling calls with
your child and one of our therapists.
This is helpful in providing you with the needed guidance to ensure that when your teen is ready to come home the outcome will be successful. Once it is determined by our staff, therapist, academic leaders and you the parents that your child is ready to start the transitioning process back into your home, from our group home for troubled teens, we will start planning a series of visits for the family to come to our facility, and then for your child to go on short visits home. These visits are not meant to be vacations; rather they are opportunities for your child to prove that they can maintain their positive lifestyle while with their family. The visits will help us to "test the water" and ensure that when problems arise they are pointed out and are fixed before your teen finally goes home.
Aftercare Phase:
Finally, after arriving home we have set up a support network in which one of our therapists will be assigned directly to your family for regular counseling sessions and continued support during the critical Aftercare Phase. We also recommend that once your child arrives home that a visit is planned for them to come back to Turning Winds Academic Institute within three months of their discharge date. We have found when students comes back to visit we are able to make sometimes necessary adjustments to help ensure continued growth.
High School Program:
Turning Winds Academic Institute is accredited by Northwest Association of Accredited Schools and is solely designed for students attending our program. Turning Winds Academic Institute is also a member of the following educational associations: National Science Teacher Association, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the National Council for Social Studies. We are specialized in the core subjects of math, reading, science, and social studies. Turning Winds Academic Institute offers high schoo
l and college preparation courses:
We offer standardized, grade-appropriate curriculum at middle and high school levels developed and taught by three Montana certified teachers. Classes are taught through independent studies and by teacher direction in a regular classroom.
Students come to realize through hard work and goal setting that learning is enjoyable and important to their future success in life. We also teach life skills such as: proper nutrition, physical conditioning, food preparation, proper hygiene, and oral interpersonal communication.
Turning Winds Academic Institute's educational expectations and standards are based on Montana state and national standards and are regularly revised and updated.
GED Program:
If parents deem it necessary a student may pursue a General Education Development (GED) or high school equivalency while attending Turning Winds Academic Institute.
The GED tests are a battery of five tests which
, when passed, certify that the student has American or Canadian high school-level academic skills. To pass the GED tests and earn a GED credential, test takers must score higher than 40 percent of graduating high school seniors nationwide.
Approximately 95% of colleges will accept GED graduates and many colleges offer scholarships and other forms of financial aid specifically for GED recipients in order to help them finance their education.
College Program:
College classes are offered through Brigham Young University (BYU). BYU's distance education program offers over 600 courses to over 100,000 people throughout the world. BYU is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU).
Courses are taken through a paper/pencil version. The student studies the materials, submits their lessons, takes a final exam and receives a course grade that can be transferred to the school of their choice. Turning Winds Academic Institute is a college testing center and students are able to take their midterms and finals at the institute.
College Courses students can take at Turning Winds Academic Institute (Each course is three college credits):
* Anthropology-Introduction to Archaeology
* Anthropology-Social/Cultural Anthropology
* Communications-Mass Communication and Society
* English-College Writing and Reading
* Geography-Global Environment: Understanding Physical Geography
* History-American Heritage
* History-Twentieth-Century Russia
* History-World Civilization to 1500
* Humanities-An Introduction to the Humanities
* Language-First-Year German 1
* Mathematics-College Algebra
* Mathematics-Trigonometry
* Music-Introduction to Music
* Political Science-American Government and Politics
* Psychology-Introduction to Psychology
* Science-Elementary College Chemistry
* Science-Geology: Life of the Past
* Science-Introduction to Geology
* Science-Physical Science Fundamentals
* Science-Physics: Introductory Applied Physics, Part 1
* Science-Physics: Introductory Applied Physics, Part 2
* Science-Principles of Biology
* Science-Science of Biology
* Sociology-Introductory Sociology
