Christian boarding schools for boys and girls - a therapeutic wilderness program and academy for troubled teen boys and girls, located in Northeast Georgia.

Do I Have a Troubled Teen?

At Shepherd’s Hill Academy, we want to help you determine whether therapeutic, residential care is right for your family

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Why SHA?

Shepherd’s Hill Academy offers your family a comprehensive approach to healing.

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How Will SHA Help My Teen?

Your child will experience hope and healing at Shepherd’s Hill Academy through a variety of Christ-centered, therapeutic programs.

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Who Will Care for My Teen?

As a nationally-recognized, state licensed residential school, Shepherd’s Hill Academy goes to great lengths to create a safe, loving, and authoritative environment for our students.

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How Do I Enroll My Teen?

From inquiry to enrollment to graduation, Shepherd’s Hill Academy is there to assist your family throughout the entire process.

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Shepherd’s Hill Academy is a Christ-Centered Therapeutic Boarding School
located in Northeast Georgia for Teens in Crisis

The Benefits of Wilderness

Our Wilderness Program provides your teen with an opportunity to be challenged in maturity. The unique benefit of our Wilderness Program is that your child will be removed from the temptations present to them in today's culture. During this separation they are able to mature in character development. If you are looking for your child to be in perpetual comfort, a wilderness-style program may not be for you. However, if you are looking for perhaps your child’s greatest opportunity for healing and a diminished sense of entitlement, all while creating for himself a sense of significance, identity, humility, and gratitude, then SHA may be a fit for your teen. Science, statistics, and history, all give evidence for the effectiveness of wilderness-style care toward heart change. And with a Christ-centered approach, the results improve exponentially.

Our Therapeutic Approach

SHA serves 12-17 year old students, and our program is for a year. Our residential boarding school provides a dynamic approach to therapeutic healing in the individual, the family, and to our culture.

Everything we do in our therapeutic boarding school is designed for therapeutic value and teachable moments–whether it is in school, sports, work, or in the wilderness area. Our teachers, campus therapists, program supervisors, and residential staff are all unified in your teen’s therapeutic goals and regularly meet to discuss progress. Our 24/7 care provides your teenager with the opportunity to grow spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically, through individual, group, and family therapeutic activities and counseling.

Endorsements

Ravi Zacharias
"I cannot say how important this is to get behind a ministry like Shepherd's Hill Academy."
Dr. Ravi Zacharias
Tullian Tchividjian
“I'm grateful for Shepherd's Hill Academy and the amazing work that they are doing.”
Tullian Tchividjian
Dr. David Barton
“Shepherd’s Hill Academy successfully demonstrates that troubled teens and their parents can... win back our culture to biblical truth.”
Dr. David Barton
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Boarding Schools and Wilderness Programs for Troubled Teens

Teens come to our wilderness program and school for boys and girls located in Georgia (GA) mostly from Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in the central states from Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Idaho in the north and west, and from Florida, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey along the east coast and southeast states.

Shepherd's Hill is a wilderness program and therapeutic boarding school with behavioral therapy counseling for troubled teens, struggling teens, angry teens, teens with ADD, ADHD, OCD, and rebellion.