Turning Winds
Therapeutic Boarding School and Residential Treatment Center
Turning Winds
Therapeutic Boarding School and Residential Treatment Center
Troy, Montana
Business Location:
31733 S Fork Rd,
Troy, Montana 59935
Turning Winds Academic Institute’s teen boarding school is a community of academic and therapeutic professionals focused on helping teens find their way past troubles and challenges to a path of engaged and productive living.
TWAI is accredited by two of the most recognized respected secondary academic accrediting bodies in the United States. We are fully accredited by Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC) and National Independent Private Schools Association (NIPSA). Our teen boarding school accepts children between the ages of 13 and 18. Turning Winds Academic Institute, a specialty private boarding school, can accept enrollment of approximately 45 students. The entire program averages approximately 12 months.
Specializations
Client Focus
Gender:
All
Payments
- Sliding Scale: No
- Free Face to Face Consult: No
- Free Phone Consult: No
- Payment Methods:
- *None listed
Insurance
- Out of Network: No
- Malpractice Insurance: No
Accepted Insurance Plans
Meet The Staff
Owen Baisden
Chief Operating Officer
Owen Baisden oversees the day-to-day operations of Turning Winds. Owen has a breadth of knowledge and experience in working with teens and their families in many different settings and capacities. Owen has worked with teens and families for nearly 17 years, helping nearly a thousand teens who have come through our program. This experience has allowed him to understand the “change†process and to become effective in connecting with and inspiring teens to work through their challenges, and help them to build a life of purpose and well-being.
April Christman
Clinical Director
April has been working with youth and families for more than a decade, after having gone through a wilderness intervention program and young adult transitional program herself. April has worked with youth in a wide variety of settings including a primitive wilderness intervention program, residential, outpatient, intensive outpatient programs, home-based services and school-based services.
1 Star Review by:Former StudentMay 24, 2018
Horrendous. I went into the program a bright, if slightly lazy and unmotivated, young man. I was in a great place socially, was on track to be accepted to all of my colleges of interest; I indeed did get accepted by all three with no thanks to TWAI for help with that. I had quite a few things in my life to be proud of. My parents, however, did not understand my experimentation with drugs such as Psylocibin mushrooms, cannabis, the occassional prescription drug (dextroamphetamine, diazepam, hydrocodone) and alcohol, nor did they find it easy to forgive me when they found some 50 condoms and my list of girls in my class that I had slept with, and others whom I was working on... View More