We Can Help Your Girl
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.
At Boise Girls Academy, we believe healthy growth involves the whole person: body, mind, spirit, relationships, and purpose. We encourage nutritious whole-food meals, regular movement, time outdoors, healthy routines, meaningful relationships, spiritual growth, and appropriate medical care, while partnering with parents in health-related decisions.
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.
Love and Logic at BGA
We approach discipline and personal responsibility by:
• Maintaining clear expectations while allowing appropriate choices.
• Teaching personal responsibility using logical and natural consequences.
• Avoiding unnecessary power struggles by responding with calmness and empathy.
• Helping girls learn from mistakes and restoring relationships after conflict.
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
We believe lasting change is strengthened when parents remain actively involved, encouraged, and connected throughout their daughter’s journey. Participation in scheduled Parent Weekends, along with support for the mentoring and character-building principles of the program, can play an important role in helping each girl successfully transition back home and continue the progress she has made.
By keeping families informed, involved, and working alongside our staff, we help create a stronger foundation for restored relationships, continued growth, and lasting positive change at home.
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 paired with a dedicated on-site staff member who serves as her counselor and the family’s primary point of contact, providing regular updates and guidance. Counselors also lead weekly group sessions where girls can openly work through challenges, build healthy relationships, and develop greater accountability, responsibility, conflict-resolution skills, and maturity.
The Four Pillars of Our Program
- Faith & Identity: Helping girls understand their God-given value, identity, and purpose through biblical teaching, chapel, mentorship, prayer, community, and spiritual growth.
- Healthy Body & Healthy Habits: Teaching practical habits that support physical and emotional well-being through whole-food meals, nutrition education, outdoor activity, movement, and structured rest.
- Growth Through Community: Developing confidence, responsibility, and connection through outdoor Idaho experiences, service projects, life skills, team activities, and shared work responsibilities.
- Responsibility & Restoration: Using Love and Logic principles to help girls make responsible choices, experience natural consequences, solve problems, develop emotional maturity, and repair family relationships.
