Christian Boarding School for Girls
About Our Therapeutic Program
Boise Girls Academy provides a safe, home-like environment where struggling teen girls receive close, consistent care and supervision. With a small student base, each girl benefits from meaningful relationships with staff who offer daily guidance, accountability, and personal mentoring. This hands-on approach allows us to stay closely engaged in each student’s progress while creating a setting that feels secure, supportive, and stable. Backed by the long-standing experience of Teen Challenge, our program is designed to help girls step out of harmful patterns and move toward a healthier, more hopeful future.
Changing Motivations from Within
Each girl in our care is engaged in meaningful, structured activities and receives consistent support through both individual and small group time. Our team focuses on building genuine relationships, helping each girl feel understood, supported, and guided as she works through challenges and grows in confidence, direction, and her relationship with Christ.
We see every interaction as an opportunity for positive influence and personal growth. Rather than just addressing behaviors, we work to understand the deeper reasons behind them. Through mentoring, guided curriculum, and ongoing counseling support, girls are encouraged to recognize unhelpful patterns, develop healthier perspectives, and build a stronger, more stable foundation for their future.
Our Philosophy
Boise Girls Academy offers a safe and encouraging living environment designed to bring about a change in a teenager’s thinking and actions. Our philosophy entails a relational counseling approach.
Program Length
Boise Girls Academy is a Christian boarding school with a 15-month program. Some students need an additional month or several, due to their stubbornness, anger, and refusal to change at the beginning of her program. We are looking for and focusing on outcomes: changes of heart, mind, and behavior instead of a date on the calendar. While each girl is unique in her specific needs and her response to the program, we find that there is a typical progression of attitudes as girls begin to experience change.
Family Involvement
Boise Girls Academy is a program for the whole family. Participation in scheduled Parent Weekends and support for the mentoring aspects of the program strongly determine the student’s success when they return home. Parents are welcome to email and/or call us and will receive regular updates. Keeping families informed and involved in the process is a priority.
What we Do
Working for Transformation in the Life of Each Student
The following are some of the signs that mark the transformation that we desire to see in our students’ lives:
Reconciliation with God & Family
Acknowledgement of past wrongs
True Confidence in the unique individual god has created
Academic improvement
excels in gifts and talents once again
becomes a positive influence on others
Speaks the truth
Submission to authority
Begins to have vision for the future
A joyful and peaceful disposition
A Focus on Healing and Healthy Behavior
Each student is thoughtfully paired with a dedicated on-site staff member who serves as her counselor and primary point of contact for the family. This counselor provides regular updates, answers questions, and offers insight into the student’s progress, while also building a consistent, supportive relationship with the girl. In addition, counselors lead weekly group sessions where students work through challenges that are common among their peers. In this safe and respectful environment, girls are encouraged to share openly and learn how to express their thoughts, questions, and experiences in a healthy and constructive way.
Staff members carefully guide these structured group times to promote unity, trust, and meaningful relationship building within the dorm. These sessions are intentionally designed to help girls grow in key areas such as positive peer influence, accountability, personal responsibility, conflict resolution, and restoring relationships. Through this process, students not only gain insight into their own behavior, but also learn how to interact with others in a more thoughtful, respectful, and mature way.
