The goal of SunHawk's teen residential treatment center is to provide students and their families with consistent, quality therapy and education that will supply new options and goals to help change their lives and relationships. This goal is met by teaching honesty, respect, teamwork and accountability. Rules such as no smoking, no drinking, no tobacco, and no drugs are enforced. The goal continues in an academic setting with structured living in a boarding school environment.

SunHawk Academy has a very comprehensive adolescent residential treatment program, which begins by modifying negative behavior, then progresses with academics to complete the needed changes in young people's lives. A key ingredient is the amount of time and effort the therapists spend working directly with students and the interaction that they have with parents during and after the program. Every bad attitude and manipulative behavior is dealt with directly and immediately. Through this consistent correction and positive guidance, day after day, in a structured, hard-working environment, positive changes begin to emerge.

We teach these students:

How to respect themselves and others
How to live without using chemicals
How to deal with emotions productively
How to set and achieve goals
How to manage anger, stress & depression
How to cope with peer pressure
How to have a healthy relationship

Students leave our boarding schools for troubled teens knowing that they can have a happy and productive life. They know that they can achieve whatever they put their mind to. Staff and students become like family and they make friends that they will have for a lifetime. But most important is that they leave here wanting to have a relationship with their families.

SunHawk Academy will provide an improvement oriented environment where individuals develop the desire and skills to make intelligent life choices, problem solve, communicate effectively and think critically becoming life long learners and productive Citizens in the community.

We fulfill this mission through our unique combination of a residential treatment program and powerful emotional growth seminars.