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Group Homes for Troubled Girls From Dist of Columbia

Group Homes for Troubled Girls Dist of Columbia DC

Group homes for troubled girls from Dist of Columbia are specialized facilities that provide a home-like setting where teenage girls from Dist of Columbia can rehabilitate from a wide array of behavioral, mental, and emotional issues.

Similar to that of other residential treatment programs for troubled youth, group homes provide a structured therapeutic environment to behaviorally treat girls who act out in self-defeating behaviors

Elk Mountain Girls Academy Serving Girls & Families From Dist of Columbia

Elk Mountain Academy is a residential treatment center for teenage girls troubled with life-controlling issues or misbehavior that may be threatening their future.

Our therapists work with girls who are acting out or making inappropriate decisions due to emotional issues stemming from: major trauma or loss in their life, physical or mental abuse, death of a loved one, or attachment disorders related to adoption. We also specialize in treating eating disorders and self-harming.

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A Top-Rated Christian Boarding School, with Christ-centered therapy and exceptional education in one place.

Unfortunately, time is of the essence when it comes to locating treatment for a dangerously out-of-control teenage girl, and waiting for a vacant bed in a group home may not be the safest or most pragmatic of options.

Luckily for parents from Dist of Columbia, there are provenly more effective alternative treatment options to consider that restrictive and often overly expensive group homes.

Elk Mountain Academy for Girls

Elk Mountain Academy for Girls is a reputable treatment program, group home-alternative that - with over a quarter of a century's worth of experience in serving troubled, female youth - provides out-of-control girls (ages 12-17) with an individualized treatment plan specifically designed to treat their medical, emotional, and psychological needs.

"Our multi-disciplinary staff is dedicated to helping each resident choose a new and more productive path in life."

Elk Mountain's nationally recognized and fully accredited facility boasts a top-tier staff made up of various behavioral, psychiatric, general healthcare, and academic professionals including:

  • Psychiatric specialists
  • Primary care physicians
  • On-campus dentists
  • Licensed psychotherapists
  • Teachers
  • Expertly trained residential staff

Our clinical staff includes a psychiatric specialist, a primary care physician, a dentist, and licensed psychotherapists as well as teachers, mentors, and residential care staff. Each student receives coaching and one-on-one mentoring. Recreation opportunities include snow and water skiing, snowboarding, hiking, boating, swimming, camping, snowshoeing, sledding, rock climbing, and river rafting.

For more information please call us at (909) 499-2748.

Help for Believers from the District of Columbia

24/7 Crisis Lines for people living in the District of Columbia: If any Christian man, woman, or child is dealing with alcohol and drug abuse, anorexia, binge eating, bipolar disorder, Borderline, BPD, bulimia, cutting, depression, sexual abuse, runaways, or self-injury.

List of hotlines for people from the District of Columbia (see below). Help for people from District of Columbia who has found themselves in bad situations should Dial 911 immediately, or call:

STOP BULLYING IN District of Columbia

CyberTipline, 24/7 US: 800-843-5678

National Bullying Prevention Center:  pacer.org

STOP CHILD ABUSE IN District of Columbia

Child Abuse National Hotline: call 1-800-252-2873, 1-800-25AB– USE

Child Abuse: To report call 1-800-4-A-CHILD

CRISIS NUMBERS FOR TEENS (UNDER 18) IN District of Columbia

Girls and Boys Town: 1-800-448-3000

Youth Crisis Hotline: 1-800-448-4663

Teen Hope Line: 1-800-394-HOPE

District of Columbia Suicide Prevention 

NAMI DC: 202-546-0646

Mental Health America - Washington DC: 202-806-7707

AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) DC Area: 646-632-5189

District of Columbia Behavioral Health: 202-481-1419

Elk Mountain Academy is a non-denominational Christian therapeutic boarding school for struggling girls from the District of Columbia. We focus on therapeutic intervention, college-preparatory academics, Christian discipleship, emotional growth, and leadership training.

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