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Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens in Washington DC

If you are a parent looking for therapeutic boarding schools for troubled teens and you live in Washington DC you are going to have to look outside of the area.  For immediate help from a professional educational consultants please contact 866-452-6016. Unless you are willing to allow your troubled teens to crash and burn and get caught up in the youth correction system (adjudicated criminal system for adolescents) you don't have an option in the Washington DC region.  

Washington DC is extremely liberal and the rights of the parents were stripped a very long time ago.  "Do Gooders" who desired to help children gave the responsibility over to the government to protect children.  We all know that if you really want to screw something up just give it to the government.  In the guise to protect children the liberals of the Washington DC government structure has stripped parents of their parental rights and created a situation where parents from Washington DC must send their child away, out of the area, in order to get help from a private therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens.

The type of help that parents are looking for is anything that gives them immediate relief and hope for their child and his or her future.  Moreover, once the troubled teen is placed or enrolled into a therapeutic boarding school the next thing is for the parent to restore the academic aspirations that have dwindled and disappeared.  Once a child is placed into a school or program for troubled teens, and they are "safe", the next thing a parent begins to revive is the academic status of the child.  Once they are enrolled and safe the focus shifts toward school, academics, and future college placement.  It is hard to believe during the midst of the crisis, but once the child is safe and secure everything changes, including the academic aspirations of the child.

The good news is that parents from the Washington DC area can find good therapeutic boarding schools for troubled teens within an 8 hour drive, starting with the State of Virginia.  But instead of therapeutic boarding schools for troubled teens you will find that most of the programs on the East Coast are residential treatment centers. Below is a list of Residential Treatment Centers within an 8 hour drive, representing the "therapeutic boardiing schools for troubled teens".  

• Graydon Manor
• Harrison House of Virginia
• Willow Oaks
• Pathways Treatment Center

Listings for Teen Boarding Schools in Washington DC area (State of Virginia). In addition to education, most of these private therapeutic boarding schools providing treatment, therapy, and work training.

Universal Ballet Academy – Washington DC