Name Changes and Relocation

Advocacy sources describe New Beginnings Girls Academy in Pace, Florida, as changing its name to Marvelous Grace Girls Academy in 2009. The r/troubledteens wiki later listed the program in both Pace, Florida, and Duck Hill, Mississippi, and marked it as closed in 2022 (r/troubledteens wiki).

Abuse Allegations

The program appears in multiple survivor-advocacy listings that characterize the school and related New Beginnings/Rebekah Home operations as abusive. The Challenging Teen Challenge list reported that Florida officials investigated two abuse allegations in 2004, including claims involving extreme physical exertion and a staff member striking a student; the public listing did not provide the underlying state file (Challenging Teen Challenge).