The Housing Experience
Comforts of Home
At Joshua Academy, our boarding experience goes beyond providing a place to sleep—it’s about creating a true home. Here, every student finds stability, safety, and a nurturing environment designed to help them thrive. With dedicated house parents, structured routines, and a strong sense of community, our students can focus on growing academically, emotionally, and spiritually.
House Parents
Our dedicated house parents play a vital role in the daily lives of our students, offering guidance, support, and mentorship. They not only ensure a safe and nurturing environment but also assist with personal growth, helping students develop strong grooming habits, social manners, and essential life skills. With their care and encouragement, students learn to navigate everyday challenges with confidence and respect.
Emotional Support and Healing
At Joshua Academy, we understand the emotional challenges foster youth face. Our students receive counseling that helps them process their emotions in a healthy, constructive way. With the guidance of professional counselors, students are empowered to build emotional resilience, gain clarity, and find hope for a brighter future. This safe space fosters healing, encouraging each child to embrace their potential and move forward with confidence.
Our Approach
At Joshua Academy, we are dedicated to nurturing the whole child—mind, body, and spirit. In addition to providing a safe, supportive housing environment and an exceptional education, we offer programs that help our students discover their God-given potential and develop the resilience, perseverance, and purpose they need to succeed in life.
Purpose
Our Dream Center program empowers students to articulate their dreams, create actionable plans, and track their progress. We help them recognize, internalize, and actualize their unique purpose, setting them on a path toward a fulfilling future.
Resiliency
Joshua Academy supports students in identifying challenges and developing the resilience needed to overcome them. Our mental health staff works closely with each student to guide them toward emotional healing and greater mental well-being, helping them find hope for the future.
Perseverance
Through weekly Biblical teachings and the support of our house parents (villagers) and teachers, we instill the importance of perseverance. Students receive life-affirming guidance from the Word of God to build their inner strength and resolve to face challenges with confidence.
Our Story
The Willow Tree in You
Representing flexibility, adaptability, and endurance the Willow Tree is the perfect representation of all the life skills that our students have had to utilize to survive their past experiences. Just as the mighty Willow Tree may bend during the storms of life they do not break, though the heaviness of their branches may droop, they also provide an abundance of protection and coverage. The more harsh the weather conditions become the roots of the Willow Tree digs deeper creating a stronger foundation. During their time at Joshua Academy, they will use those same life skills of flexibility, adaptability, and endurance to chart their paths to success.
Our vision is to transform the lives of those who have been forgotten, abandoned, or deemed unworthy, unseen, and often unheard by providing a safe, supportive, and intellectually enriching Christian-based boarding school experience. We aim to educate the whole person—physically, mentally, and spiritually—empowering our students to overcome past adversities and aspire to their God-ordained destinies as compassionate leaders in their fields and communities.
Core Values
Christ-Centered
We hold the principles of Christian living at the center of its mission and daily operations.
Holistic Educational
We meet students where they are on the learning continuum and develop them in every area – physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually.
Safe Place
This is a safe place to live, learn, and grow. Students and staff alike can exist in their vulnerabilities while using those same vulnerabilities to grow and flourish.
Take The First Step
Be a part of a transformative journey to help foster youth achieve their goals and find their path to success.