What Is Bridges Academy?

Bridges Academy is a therapeutic boarding school located in Bend, Oregon committed towards reuniting at-risk youths with their families by enabling them through education and self-discovery and assisting them in their quest to overcome family, academic, and personal challenges. The academy was established in 1997 and is an accredited and licensed therapeutic boarding school.

Bridges Academy caters to 13 to 18 year old boys who have academic, behavioral, and emotional problems. The intimate and highly structured environment at the academy provides for individualized and concentrated attention in dealing with each participant and his family. The academy accepts boys with the following problems:

• Low self esteem
• accountability
•  problem solving skills
• Anger management
• Social isolation
• Victim-role issues
• Poor motivation
• Poor personal self-care and/or hygiene
• Disrespectful behavior
• Defiance
• Poor relationships with family
• Perfection and underachievement
• Gifted or talented
• Non-compliant
• Deficiency in life skills
• Entitlement
• Addictive behaviors
• Co-dependency
• Attachment issues
• Out of control behavior
• Loss of interest in hobbies and sports

The teenage boys may have academic problems like information processing problems; poor study skills; disruptive behavior in class; learning disabilities; or sudden decline in attitude, attendance, or grades. They may have family issues such as adoption; death; severe sibling rivalry; poor coping skills; separation and/or divorce; sexual, verbal, or physical abuse; poor communication; and past or present addiction.

The Bridges Academy Program

The program’s goal is to promote the participant’s emotional maturity and personal growth by creating a well-rounded person with a commitment to the community, the family, and self. It offers and integrated emotional and academic growth curriculum, which meet the family’s needs. The participant is able to develop and explore the insight to better understand not only himself but also his relationships with other people as well. Experiential learning, leadership building, earned phase system, positive peer environment, and structured living setting encourage accountability and respectful behaviors. The participant demonstrate and learn improve behavior by showing positive habits like interaction with peers and staff, following basic rules and daily schedules, and self-regulation. Family, group, and individual counseling work well in enhancing the participant’s insight and emotional growth.

A graduate of Bridges Academy return to the community with realistic and healthy goals, and all the required skills to attain them. Total honesty and open communication are also learned at the academy. A graduate becomes positive and insightful. He has achieved a clear vision of his future in order to contribute not only to the family but to the community as well.

http://www.bridgesboysacademy.com

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Originally posted 2011-12-17 07:37:41.