Group Homes for Troubled Girls From Missouri

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

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 Missouri, 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 Missouri

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

Cutting / Self-Mutilation SAFE in Missouri

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

To Write Love On Her Arms www.TWLOHA.com

Overcome Depression in Missouri

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

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

ESCAPE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN Missouri

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

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

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

Elk Mountain Academy offers families from Missouri affordable, expert treatment for life-controlling issues and disorders in girls, including attachment disorders, attention deficit, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, self-destructive or antisocial behavior, and issues involved with adoption.

We lead troubled girls from Missouri to seek truth and to trust in the Holy Spirit, our Holy Comforter who was given to all believers in Christ. At EMA we coach and train our students from Missouri to seek, trust, and rely on the Holy Spirit, who is their comforter.

Missouri Suicide Hotlines

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

NAMI Missouri: 800-357-0388

Mental Health Association of Missouri: 228-864-6274

AFSP Missouri Support Groups: 205-335-1876

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