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Activities Here at LGA

Our therapeutic activities offer a variety that spans anywhere from on-campus sports to off-campus fun outings and trips to the beach. This variety helps our students release stress, help focus on inner change, serve others, have good healthy fun, experience the outdoors, and participate in fun group outings. These may seem simple, but through daily participation in healthy group activities in a structured environment, change happens and healthy patterns of responsibility are formed.

Here’s an overview of some of our activities…

Christian Life Activities

● Morning Prayer and Devotion Time
● Biblical Counseling
● Personalized Discipleship Curriculum (P.S.N.C)
● Group Discipleship Curriculum (G.S.N.C)
● Sunday Worship Services (At local churches)
● Wednesday Night Youth Group Services (At local churches)

Physical Activities On-Campus Activities

● On-Campus Sports (P.E.)
● Volleyball
● Basketball
● Soccer
● Capture the Flag
● Ultimate Frisbee
● Outdoor free time
● Special Arts and Crafts Projects (at least quarterly)
● Swimming (Summer months, in our pool)

Monthly Fun Outings

A variety of:
● Beach Trips (at least 4 times per year)
● Special Restaurant Outings
● Trips to a Movie Theater
● Kayaking (at least annually)
● Hiking
● Indoor Trampoline Houses
● Attending Local Professional Sporting Events
● Others

Family Weekends

● Graduation Services
● Family Training
● Off/On Campus Family Visitation time
● Family Church
● Lunch Outings

Annual Conferences

● Branded by Fire Youth Conference — Pensacola, FL: We stay at the beach and enjoy it while we are there!
● Teen Challenge Southeast Youth Conference — in Springville, Alabama: Our week-long high-energy conference with special guest speakers and outdoor lake events.
● Winter Retreat: Our 3 -day January conference with special guest speakers to start the year off focused in the right direction

Mission Trips

● International Mission Trip: Twice a year, model students with parent approval have the opportunity to qualify for international missions trips to Central America where we work with King’s Castle ministries, working with 3rd world children. By visiting and serving in a 3rd world country, our students have the opportunity to see what life is like for many people of the world, being truly thankful for everything they have, which has a lifelong impact on them.

Community Outreach

● Volunteering: Every month we volunteer with the Lakeland Dream Center, doing work in their free yard sales and various community outreach projects in Lakeland’s inner city area.
● Local Church Events: Our students have the opportunity multiple times per year to serve at local churches for various church events, such as banquets and conferences.

Peer-to-Peer Life Skills Opportunities

● Public Speaking: Class presentations – Sharing their testimony
● Big Sister Program: Each senior student has the opportunity to be selected to be a big sister to our incoming students in the school to show them the day to day schedule general guidelines. This is excellent leadership experience where our students learn to model exemplary behavior and grow in their peer to peer leadership skills.

Our Location

Address: 6754 S. Carter Rd
Lakeland, FL 33813
Phone: (863) 647-1944
admissions@schoolforgirls.org

Participation in Activities

Students have opportunities to participate in activities they may never have chosen at home. New passions are discovered as students become more well-rounded through participation.

Participation in sports improves self-discipline, self-confidence, and self-esteem. Healthier lifestyle choices become habits that will produce lasting benefits. Many activities encourage teamwork and improve the relational skills necessary for success. Group activities prepare students to consider and respect each other’s needs.

Testimonials

“I really pushed my parents over the edge when I overdosed on pills not once, not twice, but three times with 35 pills. They had enough and did not know where to turn. That’s when they brought me to Lakeland. Two months later, Jesus Christ intervened and said, “Get ready family! I am the Great Physician and I will heal your daughter and bind up her wounds!” God changed me from the inside out that day and has set me free from all the bondage that I was enslaved in.”

Jennifer

THE FOLLOWING IS FOR SEARCH ENGINE USE ONLY: We can also help you in your search for schools for troubled youth, boarding schools, affordable boarding schools or therapeutic schools. Our Christian boarding school program helps misbehaving girls who are at risk and having behavioral issues, who are oppositional, with adoption issues. Military schools for girls are probably not the best option for your troubled teen girl. Many military schools for girls won’t enroll girls who have a history of problems. When dealing with troubled teens, there are many types of residential schools which can help troubled girls. Not all Christian boarding schools work with struggling teenagers, but Lakeland does. This program specifically helps troubled teenagers -- such boarding schools are typically referred to as therapeutic boarding schools, but Lakeland is not licensed as a therapeutic boarding school, so it is more affordable. The Christian boarding school provides mentoring for at-risk teens, unlike other alternative schools and therapeutic boarding schools schools that do not have a Christian emphasis. Parents looking for boarding schools for troubled girls and military school for girls typically have a troubled girl. Such boarding schools for girls and girls homes provide help for troubled teens. Other girls only schools and therapeutic boarding schools for girls are places to send troubled youth. The difference between an all-girl military school and a trouble teen therapeutic school has to do with discipline and methods they use. Military schools for teens are all about discipline, decorum, drills and repetitiveness. Therapeutic schools, residential treatment centers, and therapeutic girls homes provide counseling and therapy, and they often use therapeutic tools like equine therapy or animal therapy. Typical boarding schools are not places to send troubled youth, since they have no therapy and little discipline for troubled girls -- they usually will not enroll troubled teens and are not considered troubled teen schools. Christian boarding schools for girls are an exception, since they use a faith-based focus to bring about life transformation. Religious boarding schools can provide troubled teen help in their troubled youth residential programs. So, many who are seeking military schools for girls may want to instead look for schools for troubled girls, where they will find therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers for girls, and Christian boarding schools.

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