Turnabout / Stillwater Academy is an adolescent treatment program dedicated to helping families and struggling teens find the pathway back to happiness and family harmony. Our family centered approach has helped restore hope and facilitate growth and healing for hundreds of families nationwide.

For more than 20 years we have provided the support, structure, and expertise necessary to help families put their lives back on track. Our clinical, academic, and administrative staffs are made up of experienced, qualified individuals who are sincere, enthusiastic, and dedicated.

What We Do

By helping our students understand how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors affect themselves and others, we help them stop the downward spiral of their destructive behaviors. We believe that each student wants to be happy, and by taking responsibility for their life and choices, they can rediscover their unique strengths, talents, and individual worth. We help students and their families identify, address, and resolve the issues that are troubling them and find solutions that are based on enduring principles and values. Students develop a positive self concept and learn to hope, dream, and work toward a happy, meaningful, and successful life.

Parents play a key role in the pathway to recovery. At Turnabout/Stillwater Academy, the family is not only an important part of the therapeutic process it is the central piece. A parent’s love and support is a powerful motivator in the change process of our students. Additionally, parents are challenged to learn and grow themselves. It is important that the family environment also grows and changes while your teen progresses through the program.

20 Years of Experience

Turnabout / Stillwater Academy was founded in 1988 in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Turnabout's new 18,000 sq. ft. facility is located about 15 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah and is situated in and near some of the most breathtaking scenery in the country.

Students benefit from this great environment through occasional cattle drives, hikes, regular outdoor therapy at Turnabout's Clementine Farms Ranch, as well as various other recreational activities.

New Students benefit from over 20 years of Turnabout / Stillwater Academy's experience helping heal hundreds of teenagers from all over the country that have worked to overcome some of the same obstacles that your teen may now be facing.

Our Founding Principles

Turnabout/Stillwater Academy provides treatment and educational services to troubled teens based on the following guiding principles essential to lasting change and emotional health

• Family involvement is essential to quality treatment
• Change and recovery must be based on true principles of happiness
• Recovery is impossible without complete integrity and a willingness to take responsibility for one’s life
• Behavior is an outward expression of internal feelings, perceptions, and needs
• Strong values and enduring spiritual principles contribute to healing
• Each student is of infinite worth and has unlimited potential for greatness

Turnabout Stillwater Academy: About Us