Boot Camps in Michigan for Troubled Teens

Michigan is home to two short term, boot camp-style, regimented programs for at-risk youth. They are Midcourse Correction and Airborne Challenge. In Michigan, there are many boarding school alternatives for troubled youth, geared toward bringing discipline and change to at-risk teens, but no others are billed as boot camps. A prominent organization in this category is the Abundant Life Academy. There are a bevy of military-style boot camps for troubled teens in nearby states.

Midcourse Correction Challenge Camp

• Midcourse Correction is an outdoor boot camp style program for incorrigible youth. Midcourse's main objectives are to develop in participants a sense of consequence and self-confidence. By acting as "a preventative wake up call" Midcourse Correction steers troubled teens away from their self-destructive paths.

  Midcourse Correction

  7015 Fieldcrest

  Suite 150

  Brighton , MI 48116-8547

  810-227-0243

  Fax: [phone]

  midcoursecorrection.org

Airborne Challenge by Families Forward

• Airborne Challenge is designed to reach teens and pre-teens who are "beginning to go down the wrong path." The program steers participants back towards discipline, hard work, sobriety, and self-respect. Families Forward, the parent organization of Airborne Challenge, also offers counseling, workshops and seminars with the goal of strengthening family bonds and problem-solving abilities.

  Families Forward

  Airborne Challenge

  Farmington Hills, MI 48336

  810-923-2256

  Fax: [phone]

  families-forward.net

Abundant Life Academy

• Abundant Life Acadamy (ALA) is a highly organized boarding school for troubled youth that cultivates respect for self and authority, hard work and discipline. ALA offers help for families "in need of immediate boot camp solutions." ALA is a Christian academy, emphasizing Christian practices as the key to rehabilitating wanton, unruly youth. ALA serves most of the contiguous United States. In Michigan, ALA has chapters in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Flint, and Clinton Township.

  Abundant Life Academy

  888-305-6729

  abundantlifeacademy.com

Michigan Non-Boot Camp Boarding Schools

• Michigan has many resources dedicated to non-boot camp boarding schools. These schools are likewise designed to put wayward and at-risk youth back on a track of respect, confidence and achievement. Examples of these are The Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, MI, The Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, MI, and The Leelanau School of Glen Arbor, MI.