Therapeutic Boarding School for Troubled Teens Welcome to Turning Winds Academic Institute (TWAI), a therapeutic boarding school for struggling teenagers. It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child. We are proud that our boarding school is a contributing part of that village. Over the years we have worked with thousands of parents in helping their troubled teens embrace positive change. We have developed a proven comprehensive program shown to be effective in helping teens overcome previous negative and destructive behaviors and to embrace healthy new lifestyles. Through the use of our Integrated Therapeutic Curriculum (ITC) and our character education focus we are able to help each teen we work with to be continuously learning and acquiring important "life skills;" skills that once learned, and retained, will significantly increase the likelihood of success after the completion of our "life changing" program. TWAI is designed to successfully work with families in many different geographic locations. Over the past decade we have enrolled students from every major continent in the world. Mending Broken and Wounded Lives: We are the cast! When a bone is broken a cast is often needed to hold it in place in order that the body may heal correctly. TWAI's purpose is two-fold. 1) We offer an ideal environment for healing to occur; and 2) We assist our teens and their families in acquiring the direction and tools necessary to ensure the healing that occurs is sustainable. Through the use of our ITC model and our character education focus we have been highly successful in treating adolescents who struggle with or exhibit any of the following: Through the use of our ITC model, we have been highly successful in treating adolescents who struggle with or exhibit the following negative behaviors: • Anger and Defiance • Rebelliousness • Immaturity • Low Self-Worth • Poor Family Relationships • Failing in School • Negative Peer Relationships • Lack of Motivation • Impulsivity • Addictions • ADD/ADHD • Bipolar • Depression • Anxiety Disorders • Bereavement • Adoption/Attachment issues TWAI is one of the world's premier teen boarding schools for boys and girls. Our highly successful therapeutic boarding school has assisted hundreds of troubled teens in getting their lives back "on track." Because we have extensive experience in working with struggling teens, we know that every child can change given the right environment with the right people.