Wilderness Programs near Birmingham
Shepherd’s Hill Academy Wilderness Programs near Birmingham
Transforming the Lives of Teens in Crisis
Shepherd’s Hill Academy Wilderness Programs near Birmingham
We know your child…we really do. Through 20 years working with difficult and rebellious teenagers, we know what you are going through. Your home has become a nightmare. Your child is angry, running with the wrong crowd, perhaps dabbling in drugs, alcohol or sex, and is at-risk of expulsion or trouble with the law. We want to help.
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Shepherd’s Hill Academy Wilderness Programs near Birmingham provides mature loving Christian therapeutic counseling, in a safe authoritative wilderness environment.
Our Wilderness Programs near Birmingham offer:
- New Creations Wilderness Therapy – Removes teens from cultural influences, and promotes therapeutic healing.
- Next Step Program – Prepares teens to move back into the home, and how to deal with societal issues.
- Counseling – Individual, Group, Family Counseling. Monthly Parent Workshops. Bi-annual Parent Conferences.
- Equine Program – EAGALA certified instructors in behavioral, mental, physical, emotional and spiritual healing.
- Shepherd’s Hill Academy – Private, Christian, Accredited Academy for Middle and Senior High students.
The whole family finds therapeutic value and healing at our Wilderness programs near Birmingham. Shepherd’s Hill Academy is located just a short distance from Birmingham in Martin, Georgia. Distance and time away from the negative influence of their peers, and our 24/7 residential care keeps our students out of harm’s way, and allows for healing among all family members.
To learn more about Shepherd’s Hill Academy Wilderness Programs near Birmingham, please contact us or fill in the online inquiry form. You can also call us at 706-779-5766. Though most of the students attending our Wilderness programs near Birmingham come from states in the southeast like Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Texas, we enroll teens from Alabama and throughout the U.S. and Canada at our Wilderness Programs near Birmingham.
About the Birmingham area from Wikipedia
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237.The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area had a population of about 1,128,047 according to the 2010 Census, which is approximately one-quarter of Alabama’s population.
The city of Birmingham is served by the Birmingham City Schools system. It is run by the Birmingham Board of Education with a current active enrollment of 30,500 in 67 schools: seven high schools, 13 middle schools, 33 elementary schools, and nine kindergarten-eighth-grade primary schools. The greater-Birmingham metropolitan area is the home of numerous independent school systems, because there has been a great deal of fragmentation of educational systems in Alabama, and especially in Jefferson County. Some of these “school systems” only have three to five schools.