Group Homes for Troubled Girls From South Dakota

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

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 South Dakota, 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 South Dakota

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

Cutting / Self-Mutilation SAFE in South Dakota

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

To Write Love On Her Arms www.TWLOHA.com

Overcome Depression in South Dakota

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

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

ESCAPE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN South Dakota

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

South Dakota Domestic Violence Hotline Spanish: 1-800-942-6908

Battered Women and their Children in South Dakota: 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 South Dakota so that they become self-motivated and governed by the standards Christ set for us.

South Dakota Suicide Hotlines

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

NAMI South Dakota: 605-271-1871

South Dakota Council of Mental Health Centers: 69=05-224-0123

Aliive of Roberts County: 605-698-3477

HELPLine Center 211: 605-334-6646