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Christian Boarding Schools Troubled Teens & Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Boys and Girls

Abundant Life Preparatory (ALP) presents an unique college preparatory progam best described as therapeutic Christian boarding schools for troubled teens, both boys and girls.  Abundant Life Preparatory offers Christian therapeutic boarding schools for gifted, bright, yet unmotivated troubled teens.  More specifically, ALP is best known as the premier Christian therapeutic boarding school for troubled boys and troubled girls ages 12 to 18. The parents who contact Abundant Life Preparatory have a troubled boy or girl and they need immediate professional intervention before it is too late.  Parents contacting ALP have tried everything to stop the downward spiral associated with teenage rebellion. However, traditional counseling, clinical therapy, and residential treatment centers have not worked, and the rebellious child seems to have gotten worse. 

ALP is designed to get the struggling student back on track. ALP is best known for emotional restoration, academic restoration (second chance to improve GPA and catch up on credits), and spiritual restoration. The State of California recognizes Abundant Life Prep as a "Therapeutic Boarding School", which is an academic-based residential treatment program. Parents and Students of ALP recognize Abundant Life Preparatory as a traditional Boarding School with a major commitment toward Clinical services, Therapeutic Intervention, and Academic Counseling. Therapeutic boarding schools for gifted, talented, yet rebellious kids.

When students of Abundant Life Preparatory join the parents and the staff of ALP in beoming strong college-bound leaders we experience miracles of total restoration. Our goal is assist troubled teens toward "total restoration" with his/her family, academic excellence, and the resurrection of their spiritual life.  Every student of Abundant Life Prep is seen as a successful college-bound young man or your lady. Therapeutic boarding schools for struggling teens.

"Abundant Life Preparatory, where Life Transition Happens!" Christian Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens

The typical Abundant Life Prep student is a young man or young lady who has rejected his/her Christian upbringing and is in rebellion against his/her parents.  These troubled boys and troubled girls refuse to follow the family rules, is enamored by the material trappings of this world, is caught up in peer acceptance, is emotionally immature, self-centered, and self absorbed. The typical ALP student has experimented with drugs (alcohol and marjiuana), is sneaking out and lying about their whereabouts, is becoming more and more isolated from the family, displays outburts of anger, and is making many poor choices.These teenagers are focused on having fun, they don't seem to care about school, they are very moody, and they have a whole new group of friends that are also going in the wrong direction.

Recent studies prove that the most successful therapeutic intervention for troubled teens is found through a long-term out-of-home placement similar to what you would find through Therapeutic Boarding Schools. At Abundant Life Preparatory our student leaders regain their destiny in Christ and begin to see themselves as successful college-bound students. Before enrolling into Abundant Life Prep our students "lived for the day', refused to take responsibility for their choices, acted as victims, and despised accountibility.  After completing the ALP program our student leaders prove to be empathic, caring, willing to serve others without complaint, take responsibility for their choices, and hold themselves and others accountable.  Our students regain a vision for their life, a life that has purpose and significance.  Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Troubled Boys.

The typical troubled teen that ALP serves cares only about his/her friends, having fun, and hates to be corrected, disciplined, or held accountable. We describe these troubled teens as a young person who lacks "emotional intelligence".  Abundant Life Preparatory is a powerful academic-based boarding school designed to restore troubled teens (boys and girls seperate programs) to Jesus Christ.  Our secondary goal is to restore each student back to a powerful and productive future through academic success. ALP is about "credit recovery" and "grade repair," especially for troubled teenagers who have floundered, and need to get back on track emotionally, spiritually, and academically. For more information about Abundant Life Preparatory's academic restoration boarding school program please contact the ALP Admissions Counselors at 888-393-2934. Boarding Schools for Troubled Girls.

Typical Abundant Life Preparatory Student - Troubled Boy or Girl who is....

 - Academically Unmotivated, failng grades, poor attendence (skips class, doesn't cares)

 - Rejecting Christian faith and Christian upbrining (Adapting a atheist view point)

 - Rebellion against parents and parental authority (yells, screams, lots of anger)

 - Refuses to follow the family rules (disrespectful toward parents)

 - Enamored by materialism and acts entitled (has disease of "Entitlementitis")

 - Easily influenced by negative peers (follow the wrong crowd)

 - Emotionally Immature, Self-centered, Self-focused (plays victim, blames everyone)

 - Lazy, lying, sneaking out, and covering up (marijuana, drinking, cocaine, Oxycotin)

 - Sexually Active

Typical Family of an Abundant Life Preparatory Student - Christian boarding schools student leaders

Our students achieve a restored family, emotional maturity, highly developed skils of responsibility and accountability, and true freedom and liberty.  At Abundant Life Preparatory our overall goal is academic excellence.  ALP specializes in credit recovery with intent to see every Abundant Life Prep student enroll into a college or university of their choice. ALP provides a safe and nurturing environment where academic pursuit becomes number one priority of the struggling teen.  The Abundant Life Preparatory experience includes full-time 24-hour professional care; group and individual therapy, academic counseling, one-on-one tutoring, and advanced leadership training (Christ-centered life coaching), athletics, community service, international missions, and horsemanship. Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens.

Moreover, at ALP our student leaders learn to be strong peer mentors; ALP Student counselors, acting as "life coaches" where our students will have a significant positive influence on their peers.  The ALP student leader, through the development of the leadership skills related to personal and community responsibility and accountability, learn to be a positive influence on those around them.  Instead of being misled by negative peers, our student leaders become strong people of accountability, character, and a heart to serve others. Christian boarding schools for troubled teens.

Abundant Life Prep is the effective and sensible alternative to the traditional type of therapeutic programs and camps designed to control the behavior of troubled teens; ALP takes the place of the rudimentary boot camps, therapeutic programs, and disciplinary camps that supposedly reform the troubled teenager. Abundant Life Preparatory is one of a few successful Christian therapeutic boarding schools designed exclusively for the college-bound teen who has tremendous untapped leadership potential. All boys boarding schools for troubled boys.

At Abundant Life Prep we serve troubled boys and troubled girls who are struggling due to emotional immaturity, selfishness, entitlement, rebellion against parental authority, defiance toward family rules, disrespectful toward family members, and in academic distress.  Perhaps your son or daughter has displayed these behaviors and more (drug and alcohol use, sexually active, sneaking out, running away, etc.) and you are in need of an out-of-the-home intervention.  Abundant Life Preparatory is the Christian therapeutic boarding school for parents insistant upon their child's academic success, which means academic restoration and a return to a future that includes a college degree. All girls boarding schools for troubled girls.

We offer two separate therapeutic boarding schools for troubled teens (ages 12 to 18): a school for troubled boys

and a school for troubled girls. We serve troubled teenagers who are struggling with:

- Rebellion against parental authority;
- Academic distress: unmotivated, poor grades, behind in credits;
- Making poor personal choices;
- Blames others, rationalizes, minimizes poor choices;
- Lies, sneaky behavior, hides poor choices;
- Experimenting with sex, alcohol, and/or drugs;
- Caring only about hanging out with a group of troubled friends;
- Rejecting Christian upbringing; and
- Moderate depression.

Our mission is to facilitate the troubled teens with Christian boarding schools that can restore them to their family, as well as to restore the student academically, behaviorally, and spiritually.  Abundant Life Preparatory is one of a very few Christian boarding schools for troubled teens offering family restoration. We are recognize for this family restoration element as well as our outstanding academic program. We use a powerful combination of Christ-centered leadership training and a challenging academic curriculum to deliver an exceptional program.  Therapeutic boarding schools.  Troubled Boys. Troubled Girls. ALP serves families from the following States: