Experiential Learning Academy (ELA)
Children’s Homes, Inc. is a family style residential education program with 10 single family homes led by a houseparent couple. CHI serves children ages 11 through 17 years old.
Youth in fourth through eleventh grades are educated in CHI’s Experiential Learning Academy preparing them for success when reunified with families or in transitioning into adulthood.
Youth in fourth through eleventh grades are educated in CHI’s Experiential Learning Academy preparing them for success when reunified with families or in transitioning into adulthood.
What the Program OffersFamily Homes
Family homes are headed by married couples trained to mentor children in a structured environment teaching values and new skills for healthy family living. Therapeutic Casework Services Each child and family served by Children's Homes has a Therapeutic Caseworker who coordinates services for the child and communications with the family or placing agent about the child's care and progress. |
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Equine Assisted Learning
Equine assisted learning is a nontraditional therapy which teaches coping and relationship skills through the combined use of horses and low-ropes activities. Working Together
Working together is a family reunification program that teaches children and parents skills necessary for healthy family living. |
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Pathfinders
Pathfinders combines Adventure Based Counseling and Wilderness Education to build self-esteem, personal and family responsibility, cooperation, problem-solving, trust and leadership. Balcom Learning Center The Balcom Learning Center provides alternative education with the goal of returning youth to the traditional school environment after they have successfully begun work on the problems that brought them to the academy. |
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Have questions about our program? Feel free to contact us.
870-239-4031
Openings
11-16 Years Old
Boys - 1
Girls - 1
Openings current as of Feb. 28, 2023.
11-16 Years Old
Boys - 1
Girls - 1
Openings current as of Feb. 28, 2023.