At Turning Winds, our teenage clients catch up academically while receiving treatment services. Academic excellence is one of our “Five Pillars of Change.” As a residential treatment center with a strong academic curriculum, Turning Winds offers a full continuum of care for teens with mental health and substance use issues while ensuring they also progress in their school curriculum. Our clients achieve success through a combination of therapeutic and educational approaches that provide the best possible outcomes.
Our certified educators are dedicated to providing each teen with a high-quality education to set them on a path to future success. Educators structure individualized learning for students based on their unique learning needs.
The Turning Winds team provides an optimal learning environment for our students. We offer small class sizes of 8–12 students to allow our teachers to spend the time needed with each student—often in a one-on-one setting.
We provide a hybrid scholastic approach to teaching with one-on-one tutoring, teacher-led instruction, and online schooling. We utilize APEX for our math and science programs, allowing us to align a student’s education with their home state’s requirements.
Our goal is to ensure that every student gets the education and academic support they need to succeed. We work closely with the counseling departments in every student’s previous school to fill the gaps in their current educational path.
INDIVIDUALIZED SUPPORT
Frequently, students arrive at Turning Winds with existing individualized educational plans (IEPs) or struggle with various learning disorders. Our experienced teaching staff will work with our clinicians to help treat learning disorders within the classroom and support any IEPs through every stage of our residential treatment process..
An important question on the minds of many parents is whether their kids will be able to return to the same school after they are finished with treatment. “One of the most important parts of my job is to make sure that when students are returning home, and they’re going back to the same school they were in before or maybe even a different school, that it is a seamless transition,” says science teacher Cathy Miller.
Many students who come to us have been underachieving in their previous academic environment, and through our program emerge in a place set up for success. We have 98 percent of our teens go on to college or trade school, and our students have even gone on to attend some of the top universities in the nation. Our data show that our students earn an average GPA of 3.5 while here—in a typical 12-month period, our average student completes about 1.5–2 years of school while experiencing an increase in GPA of almost a full letter grade over their GPA before coming to Turning Winds.
This is primarily the result of a concerted team effort explains Miller. “We work as a team and we’re an excellent team. We meet every day and discuss each student’s specific challenges. We also talk about our challenges as teachers. The concept of Turning Winds is teamwork.”
A ONE-OF-A-KIND TREATMENT OPTION
At Turning Winds, we have taken the best elements of care from wilderness therapy, therapeutic boarding schools, and inpatient treatment to create a one-of-a-kind residential treatment center.
Over the past two decades, Turning Winds has been able to help many families overcome what seemed impossible odds. Our mission is to rescue teens from crises, renew their belief in their potential, reunite them with their families, and put them on a sustainable path to success.
Contact us online for more information, or call us at 800-845-1380. If your call isn’t answered in person, someone will get back to you as soon as possible.
