Abundant Life Academy Leadership Challenge Camp for Troubled teens

Abundant Life Leadership Academy offers a short-term “early-intervention” Leadership Challenge Camp designed to restore the troubled teen holistically; restore the troubled boy or troubled girl's academic prowess, restore the struggling teenager's familial relationships, as well as to redirect the struggling teen’s immature behavior before things begin to spiral totally out of control. The purpose of the Leadershp Camp is to present the least restrictive and most affordable option available to parents with troubled teens who are just beginning to act out.  The objective is to get this rebellion problem licked early, before the problems are irreversible and permenant.  Parents who are struggling with their troubled youth usually have no idea what resources are available to them.  Normally parents go to their trusted friends and family first.  Friends and family can be helpful, and it is the safest place to start.

Most likely the parent of a troubled teen will find a therapeutic intervention through a local therapist through word of mouth.  Therapy works, but only if the client is motivated to change and will be cooperative.  Rarely are struggling youth willng or motivated to work on the their issues.  Therapy every other week for a year can be very expensive and their are very few positive testimonials of success. Moreover, most rebellious teenagers do not need therapy.  Their issues are grounded in "emotional immaturity", and there is no therapeutic modality that I'm aware of that deals with emotional immaturity.  At Abundant Life Academy we teach students to be "emotionally intelligent".  We call emotional intelligence EQ.  EQ is to think before you act, and never make decisions soley on the emotion that is raging and angry.  EQ is taught at the best business schools, fortune 500 executive management training, and the US military leadership programs.  EQ is so much more effective with immature, selfish, self-centered, spoiled/entitled children.  Compared to therapy EQ is very effective. Why waste ten's of thousands of dollars and a year of heartache through therapy when you can get some immediate relief through ALA's Leadership Camp?  For more info call the 888 number above or fill out the "Get Help Now" form found in the far left column of this page.

Our Program offers…

1. Immediate relief at home and safety for your child (out of the negative environment)
2. Grade Repair
3. Credit Recovery
4. Leadership Training, Emotional Intelligence Studies
5. Personality Assessment, Human Behavior Studies
6. Psychological Assessment
7. Substance Abuse Prevention Classes
8. Parent Coaching
9. Optional: Bible Class
10. Optional: In-depth Psychological Assessment

“The ALA Leadership Camp is a wake up call for students who are beginning to make poor decisions, struggling with poor self image,  performing poorly in school and at home. The ALA Camp provides immediate redirection and restoration.”

The Abundant Life Leadership Academy is a highly intensive academic/family restoration and leadership program designed to restore the troubled teen and his/her family in a very short time period. During the 45 to 60 day Challenge Camp the student (both boys and girls, ages 14 to 18) is refocused on academic performance, developing emotional maturity (learning to make proactive/prosocial choices), dealing with adversity (taking responsibility for past poor choices), setting and achieving new goals (proactive and sequential planning), and family restoration (submitting to parental authority).

Abundant Life Academy Leadership Challenge Camp

Where Jesus is the Only Answer for Troubled Teens

Typical Student Candidate: Today’s troubled teens are usually awesome young people, coming from solid Christian families, yet they have become obstinant and are heading in the wrong direction.  Some of these troubled boys and girls are struggling academically and need academic restoration (grade repair and credit recovery). The student candidate is displaying behavioral problems due to lack of self esteem and poor decision-making skills.  The “troubled teen” that works with is a good-hearted youth but he/she is making poor choices, such as; defiance, laziness, lies to parents, sneaks out and skips school, experimenting with drugs and/or alcohol, may be sexually active, unmotivated, choosing the wrong friends, throws temper tantrums when they don’t get their way. These kids are emotionally immature, self-centered, self-absorbed, and live for the moment.  Essentially, they just want to have fun and don’t want to take responsibility.  Troubled youth struggle to see the big picture, and fail to equate their poor choices to the adversity that they have created for themselves.  Troubled teens blame others for their problems, they justify poor choices, and deflect accountability.  The young man or woman we serve seeks fun first, pleasure second, and good times third; and refuse to work hard  perservere toward positive progress.  These students are in need of self-driven internal discipline and a plan for their future.

Leadership Program:
The Abundant Life Academy Leadership Challenge Camp is an intense study of three elements of leadership, along with other highly successful leaderships material.  The first is a personality trait assessment called DISC, where a student learns to understand them selves better by learning about their own unique personality style and how to best relate to others around them.  Second, they learn about emotional intelligence and what it takes to become more emotionally mature, learning how to read, understand, and regulate emotions in themselves and others so that they can better handle changes and setback. Third is “choice”, meaning learning how to apply intelligence and maturity so that the student makes more choices for themselves that produce an abundance of life’s best gifts.
The overall purpose of the leadership program is to help students have a better knowledge and understanding of themselves, their role in society, to help improve personal relationships and to make better choices.  Students will be given leadership instruction in two hour long classes weekly, as well as an intense leadership seminar each weekend.

The ALA 45 to 60 Day Leadership Challenge Camp Presents:

• Academic Restoration (3 High School Credits earned in 45 to 60 days)or Human Behavior and Leadership: Restore GPA and make up high school credits where the student has fallen behind. 48 hours of academic restoration Or Human Behavior and Leadership per week during the course of the Challenge Camp.
• Family Restoration: Students and their family are restored through a series of intense parent coaching and family restoration training. Parents are guided through ALA’s Parent Coaching Program with an ALA Parent Coach, and parent/teen participate in weekly Restoration Coaching via the phone with the ALA Family Coach.
• Individual Evaluation & Assessments: Students are tested, assessed, and evaluated academically as well as emotionally (personality temperaments, emotional intelligence, ability to make choices).
• Leadership Boot Camp: Six (2)-day seminars covering Personality Insight’s Personality Assessment and Leadership Training, Emotional Intelligence, and Choice Theory. Reveals individual strengths and personal motivators, how we work best within a team, and how to communicate better with other people and much more.  Increase productivity, reduce stress, personal development, increase internal motivation, success with relationships, and development of “people skills”, unlock leadership potential, and improve team-building attributes.
• Substance Abuse Prevention Education: 5-hour Substance Abuse Prevention Educational Training.  Teaching students the pitfalls and dangers of substance abuse and how to prevent the detriments of drug and alcohol use.
• Bible Boot Camp: Two (2)-day Seminars introducing the basics of tenants of the Bible from a leadership standpoint. Atonement, Grace, Mercy, Forgiveness of Sin, Submission to Authority, etc.
• Aftercare Coaching: Parents continue to receive weekly Aftercare Parent Coaching with the ALA Parent Coach for up to 3-months after the student completes the Challenge Camp.  

To complete the App:

1-Go to the www.abundantlifeacademy.com homepage
2- just below our school logo on the top left side of the HP, you will see 3 green boxes
3- Click on 2nd green box - APPLICATION FORM - you will be prompted to another page
4-Below our school banner, you will click on FILL OUT OUR ONLINE APPLICATION
5- You will then be prompted to the log in page
6-Due to being a new user, you will click on the blue words NEW USER just below the flashing Abundant Life Academy
7 - there will be 7 fields to complete and once you submit that info, you will be taken to the secured on line app
8- Please provide detailed and thorough information pertaining to your teen’s current situation.  The more detailed you are the more adequately we can meet your teen’s needs.
9- This information becomes your child’s STUDENT RECORD which is basically the student’s personal web page of information of their daily progress in the various areas of our program.

Once you have completed the application, one of our Admissions Administrators will contact you to discuss and complete the enrollment process.

We find it an honor to serve families in need of programs such as ours and will be praying for you as you seek guidance and direction in the Lord’s will for your situation. You can enroll your student and reserve seating by filling out the application online, printing off the enrollment agreement, signing it and submitting it to Abundant Life Academy, 220 West 300 North, Kanab, UT 84741 along with a check for $2,000. A $7,000 payment will accompany the student at enrollment and another $7,000 payment will be due not later than 30 days upon enrollment. Starting dates will be on or about June 1, 2009 and July 6, 2009 and continue for 60 days.

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