Residential Treatment Center for Troubled Teens
Discovery Ranch is a high-end troubled teen treatment center nestled at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains. With two homes on twenty acres, ten miles South of Provo Utah, Discovery Ranch offers the wide-open space of country living, and the benefits of a metropolitan area.
Learning from the experience of Discovery Academy (Our boarding school that offers teen residential treatment) and RedCliff Ascent (Our wilderness treatment center), Discovery Ranch is the first troubled teen treatment center in the industry to offer clinically intensive care with the foundation being experiential therapy. Like most wilderness treatment centers, the focus on experiential learning is what sets us apart. Equine therapy in a Kentucky Derby style facility, nursing day old calves by hand, exercising in a full gymnasium and participating on high and low ropes course apparatus describe just a few of the therapeutic activities students will be involved in, side by side, with their therapist and residential staff. Most teen residential treatment centers try to combine school and therapeutic activities during the day. This creates a confusing and often chaotic learning environment. However, because students at Discovery Ranch attend school in the late afternoon and evening, therapists have full access to the students during the day. This allows the therapists the freedom and creativity to be involved with the students in therapeutic activities throughout the campus without the distraction of pulling students from class.
Following the example of Discovery Academy, where students score above the National Average on SAT and ACT scores, students at Discovery Ranch participate in a teacher driven, student paced school. This model is not to be confused with “Independent Study” or “Packet” type courses offered in other programs.
Discovery Ranch is a proud member of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.
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