Group Homes for Troubled Girls From Illinois
Group homes for troubled girls from Illinois are specialized facilities that provide a home-like setting where teenage girls from Illinois can rehabilitate from a wide array of behavioral, mental, and emotional issues.
Elk Mountain Girls Academy Serving Girls & Families From Illinois
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.
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 Illinois, 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 Illinois
24/7 Crisis Lines for people living in Illinois: 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 Illinois (see below). Help for people from Illinois who have found themselves in bad situations should Dial 911 immediately, or call:
Help For Runaways From Illinois
National Runaway Switchboard for Illinois: 1-800-621-4000
Youth Crisis Hotline for Illinois: 1-800-448-4663
Child Help National Child Abuse Hotline in Illinois: 1-800-422-4453 (24/7)
Find Salvation in Illinois
Grace Help Line 24 Hour Christian Service: 1-800-982-8032
Want to know Jesus in Illinois? 1-888-NEED-HIM
Suicide Prevention in Illinois
Emergency? dial 911
Suicide Hotline 1-800-SUICIDE: (784-2433)
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-827-7571
Veterans Suicide Prevention: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) and press 1
Elk Mountain Academy is a non-denominational Christian therapeutic boarding school for struggling girls from Illinois. We focus on therapeutic intervention, college-preparatory academics, Christian discipleship, emotional growth, and leadership training.
At Elk Mountain Academy we've created an intimate environment where emotional and spiritual growth is personal and rewarding. We aim to lead, mentor, coach, and edify our students from Illinois so that they become self-motivated and governed by the standards Christ set for us.
Illinois Suicide Hotlines
Illinois Suicide Hotlines: Illinois Suicide Hotlines: If you would prefer to call an Illinois suicide hotline instead of a national hotline, there are several Illinois suicide prevention hotlines available. However, unlike most national options, some Illinois hotlines may not be staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Illinois suicide hotline numbers include:
Centerstone - Illinois Locations: 855-608-3560
Crisis of Will and Grundy Counties: 815-722-3344 x815
AFSP - Greater Chicago Illinois Chapter (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention): 312-890-2377
IL Mental Health Collaborative Illinois Warm Line: 866-359-7953
Mental Health America of Illinois: 312-368-9070
NAMI Illinois: 800-346-4572
Naomi Ruth Cohen Institute for Mental Health Education at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology: 312-467-2552
Riveredge Hospital: 708-771-7000
Suicide Prevention Services of America: 630-482-9699
Elk Mountain Academy is a non-denominational Christian therapeutic boarding school for struggling girls from Illinois. We focus on therapeutic intervention, college-preparatory academics, Christian discipleship, emotional growth, and leadership training.