Group Homes for Troubled Girls From Iowa

Group homes for troubled girls from Iowa are specialized facilities that provide a home-like setting where teenage girls from Iowa 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 Iowa

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 Iowa, 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 Iowa

24/7 Crisis Lines for people living in Iowa: 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 Iowa (see below). Help for people from Iowa who has found themselves in bad situations should Dial 911 immediately, or call:

Cutting / Self-Mutilation SAFE in Iowa

(Self-Abuse Finally Ends in Iowa): 1-800-DONT-CUT, 1-800-366-8288

To Write Love On Her Arms www.TWLOHA.com

OVERCOME DEPRESSION IN Iowa

National Suicide Prevention Helpline in Iowa: 1-800-273-8255 (1-800-273-TALK)

National Hopeline Network fro Iowa: 1-800-784-2433 (1-800-SUICIDE) www.hopeline.com

ESCAPE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN Iowa

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE

Iowa Domestic Violence Hotline Spanish: 1-800-942-6908

Battered Women and their Children in Iowa: 1-800-603-HELP

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 Iowa so that they become self-motivated and governed by the standards Christ set for us.

Iowa Suicide Hotlines

Iowa Suicide Hotlines: Iowa Suicide Hotlines: If you would prefer to call an Iowa suicide hotline instead of a national hotline, there are several Iowa suicide prevention hotlines available. However, unlike most national options, some Iowa hotlines may not be staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Iowa suicide hotline numbers include:

NAMI Iowa Chapter: 515-254-0417

AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) Iowa: 641-990-4957

Iowa Foundation 2: 800-332-4224

Your Life Iowa: 855-581-8111