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The Refuge Girls Academy
Help For Your Struggling Girl
She’ll Find Hope, Peace, Joy and Healing
Affordable Professional Therapy & Academics
The Refuge
A Safe Residential Program for
Struggling Teen Girls in Small-Town Indiana
The Refuge Girls Academy in Central Indiana offers struggling girls, ages 13-17, a faith-based program and personal therapy for healing from behavioral or academic problems. Our 12 to 15-month residential program helps girls acquire a healthy mind, body, and spirit while living in a structured, reliable setting.
The Refuge uses a caring approach, teaching girls to live well and flourish. As they interact in group Bible studies and the Stay Sharp™ prevention course, girls learn to embrace God’s love, practice responsibility, and discover their purpose in life. Troubled girls also experience character-building activities, equine therapy, and community service opportunities at local churches in small-town Central Indiana.
When girls need to improve and earn school credits, The Refuge provides personalized classroom and online academics for each girl, with help from an experienced tutor in our secure, on-campus classroom.
Small-Town Indiana Mentors Help Your
Troubled Teen Girl
An exceptional feature of The Refuge involves dozens of local women mentors from area churches who spend time and support our resident teen girls. Mentors offer vital support and guidance, bring gifts, attend parties with her, and even take her off-campus with qualified staff to enjoy time together at Lebanon’s shops, diners, and parks. Where else could a struggling teen girl in a residential boarding school find this personal and spiritual support from a local Christian woman who truly cares and prays for her? You can only find it here at The Refuge Girls Academy in Central Indiana, a Teen Challenge program!
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Physical Health & Spiritual Renewal
A consistent daily schedule helps our students build healthy bodies, minds, and spirits.
Fun & Healing Activities
Girls exercise four times a week at the local athletic facility, have gardening classes, art therapy, and equine therapy.
Spiritual Activities
On-campus activities include gathering daily for morning and evening devotions and Chapel services on Wednesdays.
Academic Growth
We personalize each girl’s schoolwork for academic repair and improvement—resident girls study online courses in our secure campus classroom, assisted by our tutor and staff.
Serve, Work & Prosper
In our active vocational program, girls acquire marketable job skills and hands-on experience in downtown Lebanon, IN at Starbucks, Arnie’s Pizza, and our new mobile coffee truck, “The Lebanon Brew.”
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To restore adolescent females (ages 13-17) with life controlling problems to a productive lifestyle and become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well and spiritually alive.
What Leaders Say About Our Program
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Former Attorney General
John Ashcroft
“I have been a long time support of the work Teen Challenge has accomplished and the help they have provided over the years.”
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Former President
Ronald Reagan
“Teen Challenge is effective; it is literally changing the lives of young Americans from every walk of life. The work and dedication of Teen Challenge deserves the commendation of every citizen.”
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Founder Focus on the Family
Dr. James C. Dobson
“Organizations like Teen Challenge…have a far better record of dealing with social issues and people in difficulty than do the bureaucrats.”
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CEO Chick-fil-A
Dan T. Cathy
“I truly admire Teen Challenge because of its loving, life-giving ministry to individuals who are bound by life controlling addictions.”
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President George
W. Bush
“Teen Challenge is one of the most successful programs in our country.”
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Bestselling Leadership Author
John C. Maxwell
“Teen Challenge offers hope and restoration to individuals by exchanging their distorted views on life with God’s perspectives.”
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Past Director AT&T
Jim Blanchard
“I have not seen a more effective ministry in leading hurting people to a life-transforming relationship with Jesus Christ.”
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Psychologist and Author
Dr. Kevin Leman
“I wholeheartedly support the efforts of Teen Challenge…they really make a difference in lives and each of us can be proud that they are part of our community.”
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Former Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
John P. Walters
“Teen Challenge is doing the job that others only talk about. Teen Challenge is a reputable institution that needs to be highlighted.”
Testimonials
What Clients and Parents Say
Teen Challenge changed my life completely, I learned what it really meant to be a Christian and after I graduated I learned how hard it was to live what I was taught. It has been a struggle for me but now I know what it is like to live. (…)
Melanie
I am from Texas and am 15 years old. I grew up with a mother who abandon me at two. Her need for drugs, alcohol and prostitution proved more important to her than her family. My father loved us the only way he knew how to and gave into our wants without (…)
