Uinta Academy Overview
Uinta Academy is the nation’s leading multi-dimensional residential treatment center for teens and young adults. We specialize with teens who struggle with relationships or attachment or who have experienced trauma. Uinta’s clinically intense and sophisticated treatment program is balanced by a warm, nurturing, family-style living environment. Teens and young adults who come to Uinta are pleasantly surprised that they live in a home in a residential neighborhood, that the mountains are right outside their door, and that they get to do all the normal things that teenagers like to do.
Uinta Academy offers intense clinical treatment in the form of individual, family, and group therapy delivered by licensed professionals. A research-based therapeutic milieu, accredited academic program, equine-assisted psychotherapy, a robust integrated cultural arts program, recreational therapy, and a healthy lifestyles element round out the program at Uinta.
Uinta is comprised of four homes that are interspersed in a rural community. The homes are located in close proximity so students can make friendships with people in all the homes.
- East home – Residential treatment for up to sixteen students ages 12-17.
- West home – Residential treatment for up to sixteen students ages 12-17.
- Transition home – For teens in the final stage of treatment. The reduced structure and increased autonomy prepare girls for the step home.
- Young Adult home – Residential treatment for eight young adults ages 18-21.
Uinta Academy is licensed by the Utah Department of Human Services and a member of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs. Our academic program is accredited by AdvanEd and the Utah State Office of Education.
"Teens who come to Uinta are pleasantly surprised that they live in a home in a residential neighborhood, that the mountains are right outside their door, and that they get to do all the normal things that teenagers like to do."