Red River Youth Academy

Red River Youth Academy in Norman, Oklahoma, serves male and female adolescents (ages 12-17) experiencing serious emotional/behavioral disorders.

Bringing your child to a residential treatment center may not be an easy decision but it may be the right decision. We are dedicated to providing the most effective care for our clients through programs designed to target specific problems faced by adolescent males. By using self-evaluation, role modeling, individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, life-skills training, and formal education we help our clients establish control over their behavior, improve decision making skills, maximize academic achievement, and develop pro-social behavior to replace acting-out responses to anxiety and depression.

We ask a lot of the youth we treat and we give a lot of ourselves. The client must actively participate for any treatment regimen to work. While at Red River Youth Academy, clients’ days are filled with activities, formal education, therapy groups, and individual sessions. The program is highly structured and intense because we only have a short time to change 12-17 years of learning experiences. Every waking moment is dedicated to making the needed changes in order to maximize the potential of each client to acquire the necessary skills to function in our society.

Our treatment program centers on cognitive-behavioral therapy. We take a proactive approach and require the client’s participation as the major change agent in his or her treatment. We believe that therapy is an educational program and full participation is the route to success. Our program fosters functional life skills by allowing the client to observe and model behaviors that work more effectively than those he has learned through past experiences. We teach clients a new way of life that they can recognize as more beneficial than their former dysfunctional patterns of behavior. The program works because it is based on common sense, discipline, responsibility, and basic learning theory concepts that have been proven over time.

Our staff is outstanding and well-trained to deliver the excellent services provided to our clients. An individual treatment plan of care that addresses the specific needs of each client is prepared by a multi-disciplinary treatment team. Our program includes milieu therapy, individual and group therapy, and family counseling. School is provided on-site with educators from Norman Public Schools.