About

Turning Winds is a residential treatment center and therapeutic boarding school for adolescents in Troy, Montana. Its campus is located in northwestern Montana near the South Fork Yaak River and the Purcell Mountains, on more than 150 acres.

The program describes its work as residential treatment for teens with mental-health, behavioral-health, educational, and substance-use concerns. Its materials describe a model combining clinical care, academics, outdoor activities, family work, and longer residential stays. Turning Winds says it accepts students ages 13 to 18, enrolls approximately 45 students, and averages about 12 months in the program.

Turning Winds identifies The Joint Commission as a treatment accreditation and Cognia or the Northwest Accreditation Commission as academic accreditation. Survivor-advocacy sources and treatment directories identify Turning Winds Academic Institute as having opened in 2002.