Residential Treatment Centers & Boarding Schools
Every person is unique. In a treatment setting, what works for one girl may not work for another. Factors such as therapeutic approaches, average age, and personal interests can make a difference in the eventual success of treatment and in the length of time required to get there. For this reason, the CERTS family of schools and programs offers a variety of programs to better ensure a solution tailored for the needs of each individual girl and is a leading provider of specialized residential treatment. The following is a list of the schools and programs that make up CERTS. If you would like immediate help in choosing the best option for your daughter, please call 888-406-5968 to speak with the CERTS Admissions Director.
Residential Treatment Centers
La Europa Academy
La Europa Academy is a clinically sophisticated, 36-bed, fine arts-based residential treatment center that specializes in using the arts to help girls ages 13-17 heal and work through emotional pain. La Europa blends the best of traditional treatment (DBT, specialized groups, small caseloads, outstanding family systems work, etc.) with a focus on the arts (dance, photography, ceramics, watercolors, choir, piano, yoga, guitar, etc.) that allows us to build on our girl's strengths. More significantly, both educators and therapists are trained to use the arts to help girls access and release pain, which they do in powerful and creative ways. A world class educational team provides an outstanding academic experience. La Europa's urban location provides a sense that girls are truly a part of the community.
Kolob Canyon Residential Treatment Center
Kolob Canyon is a unique, experientially-based 12-bed facility that works with girls ages 14-17. This clinically sophistcated program features DBT trained therapists with small caseloads and extensive family systems work, but does so with a heavy emphasis on girls "doing things" (as opposed to more talk therapy) to better process information. Regular therapeutic excursions take our girls white water rafting, canyoneering, hiking, and much, much more. This is in addition to what we believe is the finest Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (therapy with horses) and riding program for residential treatment in the United States! The setting for Kolob Canyon is also ideal--a beautiful, 23 acre horse ranch in Utah's Canyon Country that provides the perfect "outdoor classroom" for our girls.
Moonridge Academy
Moonridge Academy is a unique, "for young girls only!" program for girls age 11-14. Designed specifically to avoid exposing younger girls to the behaviors, attitudes and addictions of older teenage girls, Moonridge combines the clinical sophistication of the other CERTS treatment centers (DBT, extensive family systems work, small caseloads, etc.) with a program designed just for them: lots of "hands on" education and treatment, play therapy, sand tray therapy, regular therapeutic excursions, work with horses, and more. Both education and therapy are at their level, rather than trying to force them to fit in with high school kids. And Moonridge girls take care of and spend time with their very own miniature horses!
Boarding Schools
Mountain Springs Preparatory Academy
Mountain Springs Preparatory Academy is a structured, co-educational boarding school specifically designed as a transitional program for graduates of treatment centers. While some students can go directly from the treatment setting back to home, other students do better when there is an in-between, transitional step that provides safety, structure, and 24/7 supervision. The Academy offers outstanding, fully accredited academics and is a natural "next step" for the CERTS treatment programs. Students participate in numerous self-esteem boosting activities that are not possible in the traditional treatment setting—cross country ski treks, white water rafting, ice climbing, horse packing, mountain climbing, etc. The "hands-on, go and do" educational philosophy of The Academy translates into international service projects in Mexico, educational field trips throughout the United States, and many other meaningful projects. All students are involved in a challenging Student Leadership program that assists them in taking charge of their own lives. This less restrictive, but still supportive environment can provide an important in-between step to the "structure" of the treatment centers and the comparative "freedom" of home.
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