Resolution Ranch Helps Troubled Teenage Boys
Resolution Ranch Academy’s therapeutic boarding school and boys ranch in Cameron, Texas, helps troubled teen boys give up harmful behavior and discover their true selves. The distance from home can be beneficial, giving teens a fresh start away from negative influences so they can focus fully on healing and growth.
Founded in 2004 by former NFL player Scott McGarrahan, Resolution Ranch Academy’s therapeutic boarding school and boys ranch helps teenage boys struggling with behavioral issues — such as depression, rebellion, and ADHD. Teen boys get back on track toward a positive future. For an average of six to nine months, boys ages 13 to 17 live on our beautiful boys ranch campus in Central Texas. Our positive, nurturing atmosphere focuses on guiding personal growth through responsibility, gratitude, and open communication based on our successful R.A.N.C.H. therapy system, Recovery and Academics through Nature, Counseling, and Healing, which includes behavioral therapy.
Located on a rustic ranch and lake about 70 miles northeast of Austin, Texas, our ranch team dedicates its work to inspiring growth and gratitude through communication of family values, personal responsibility, and academic support. Our ranch for troubled youth offers a nurturing environment where teenage boys will find unconditional care and guidance.
The active lifestyle at Resolution Ranch includes playing sports (football/soccer/basketball), physical training at our Strength and Conditioning center, experiencing nature at our on-site lake and wooded trails, plus sharing arts and crafts sessions. These activities are coupled with therapy designed to help students reconnect positively and respectfully with the world and its people.
Resolution Ranch’s Therapeutic Boarding School Guides Boys to Rediscover Their Genuine Self
At Resolution Ranch, we help troubled teen boys return to their true selves and look ahead to a brighter future. In the peaceful wilderness, far removed from the negative influences of modern teenage life, Resolution Ranch Academy provides a comprehensive recovery program for teen boys exhibiting out-of-control behavior, poor academic performance, or substance abuse problems. Developing character, learning responsibility, and serving others are just a few things our students learn at Resolution Ranch’s boarding school for boys.
Resolution Ranch Academy’s residential therapeutic program provides teen boys with a unique combination of education, personal therapy, and equine therapy programs. Our goal is to help our students learn to manage their lives so that they can reach their full potential personally and academically.
Teen boys truly have a remarkable capacity to modify self-destructive behavior while recognizing they can succeed in life in even if they’ve failed in the past. Our staff, leadership, and therapists are experts at working with this population and the unique challenges they face. Utilizing a unique ranch-based program, our teachers, support staff, and therapists work hard to help them learn new skills in communication and self-management. The milieu of therapy experienced on this boys ranch includes academics, art therapy, equine therapy, and traditional therapy, plus the boys will explore their talents and discover new interests, all designed to enhance their self-worth and spark excitement for their future.
Resolution Ranch Offers a Program for Troubled Boys that is Focused on Each Boy’s Individual Needs
At Resolution Ranch, we recognize your son’s unique emotional and academic needs. Our college-minded and future-focused educators help your child recover school credits and continue a successful path to graduation, college, and beyond! Graduates of our school for troubled youth program have gone on to accept scholarships and attend many colleges throughout the country and the world.
Students at our school and ranch for at-risk boys also engage in several forms of therapy throughout the week. This includes individual therapy with one of our licensed clinical therapists, group therapy with 7 to 8 individuals in the Resolution student community, and family therapy sessions that include parents and siblings address their own challenges and build skills like patience, working with authority figures, and being more honest along the way.
At the Resolution Boys Ranch in Texas, Teen Boys Learn The Value of Hard Work and Teamwork
We enroll boys from around the country who need extra support and structure to leave behind a life that hurts them and those around them far more than helping. Through a mixture of time in nature, individual, group, and family therapy, and academic care, we instill in the student responsibility for himself and for helping others he lives with. Boys here learn the value of humility, gratitude, and compassion. Responsibilities for each teen at our boy’s ranch and school include washing and drying his clothes, helping the chefs prepare the food, serving the food, washing dishes, and keeping the dorm rooms and equine therapy campus areas clean. Students also complete 12 hours of community service on campus or at home while away from the ranch for a home visit.
