Diamond Ranch Academy

Incredible and positive things happen at Diamond Ranch Academy and I am grateful to have the opportunity to work for such a great company. The people that work here genuinely want the very best for the youth and go above and beyond to support them through their journey here. DRA is unique from many other companies as there is a very positive environment here. I am proud to be a part of this great organization and feel that as staff, we are making a positive difference in each of the students' lives.

Hope all is well with Diamond Ranch. May 25th will be the anniversary of my daughter graduating for a year. How time flies. She is doing very well, she has adjusted back to school and life in general. She has become a very responsible & a sweet young lady. Her grades are really good as a Junior and she's getting ready to choose her college, but most of all her attitude is amazing! What a difference from just two years ago. Every now & again my daughter will mention DRA and how it has changed her life. We are thankful each & every day for the job well done with her.

Diamond Ranch Academy has helped my daughter immensely. She struggled with addiction and depression as a young teenager and Diamond Ranch helped her turn her life around. My husband and I are eternally grateful to the amazing and dedicated staff at DRA for giving our daughter a second chance and helping her surpass her issues and become a successful adult.

I wish I could give this place more than five stars. It completely changed my son's life. Diamond Ranch, thank you so much!

Diamond Ranch Academy is a great company to work for. What a unique opportunity it is to work for a company that is committed to improving the lives of youth and their families, as well as sharing day to day duties with the most upstanding, charactered co workers you could ever have the good fortune of working with. DRA is a special place with special people, doing special things.

I wanted to give you an update on my son... he graduated high school with honors, is easy to live with, has been responsible, and has held a job for the past four months! His relationship with me and his sister has improved, he's registered for college classes, and will take his meds without a fight. THANK YOU SO MUCH for all you have done for him and our family; looks like you have another success story!

Please do research and read testimonials on other websites from former students. Diamond Ranch has a whole team dedicated to having student reviews removed from sites like this. They also offered to pay students (many of whom were leaving without any money or a phone) to give a good review before they left. Being placed in a school like this in high school leads to very many developmental issues down the line, many of my former classmates are addicted to more drugs than they were when they came in and the remaining ones are active in the porn industry. Talk to former students and do your research before sending your kids here.

I attended this facility a few years ago and will forever be grateful for everything they did for me. The staff truly cares about the students and are willing to go the extra mile to make sure that all the students are successful and to form personal relationships with them. So glad to have been a part of this organization and I hope they continue to help others in the future.

I keep thinking about how blessed our family has been to have been able to have our child at DRA. I still can't believe the transformation I have seen in my child. In May of last year I dropped a defiant, angry, hurt, disrespectful and lost child with no self esteem off to DRA. The young woman that I picked up from the airport is positive, respectful, mature and a completely changed young woman.
Thank you for all you do! Thank you for carrying my hope for my daughter and handing it back to me!

Definitely was the right decision, although tough, to send my child here. He's like a different person now. After he returned home, everyone in our family could see the positive differences in him and the progress he made during his time at Diamond Ranch. Thank you!

Diamond Ranch is a unique school dedicated to helping students change their lives. My husband and I sent our daughter here during high school and it helped her immensely. So grateful for this amazing organization!

Diamond Ranch is a wonderful place to help your teen get back on track academically and/or with life. It is structured more like a boarding school rather than a traditional treatment center. The students wear their own clothes, they play on sports teams, they still go to the movies and eat out on the weekends. They are able to get the help they need therapeutically without missing out on being a teenager. As a mother with two children, I pray that I would have the strength to send my child away to get help if needed. Knowing that there are places like Diamond Ranch out there makes that decision a little easier. The faculty and staff are loving and attentive and care for the students even years after they have graduated. They work hard to make sure that your child is well taken care of and watched over. Truly such a wonderful school and a positive environment filled with good good people.

This school is amazing. It's filled with people that treat your child with love and support (and as if she was their own child) and a curriculum that is truly life changing. We sent our daughter there as a last hope -- we didn't know what else to do. It was by far the hardest decision we have ever made and one that we have never regretted since day one. Our daughter has since graduated the program and is now full of confidence and determination to succeed. She has made friends that will last a lifetime. DRA saved our daughter and our family. We will forever be eternally grateful to the wonderful team, therapist and parent coordinator that helped her find her way!

I credit my son's success in college and early adulthood to Diamond Ranch Academy. He was a stubborn and disrespectful kid who grew up into a healthy and well-adjusted young man.

I am so indebted to you and DRA. You were a guiding light through a very tough decision. Thank you. Son is doing great so far. Not without challenges. But on the high honor roll. Thank you again.

I wanted to write to thank each and everyone of you for every thing that you have done and are continuing to do for my son in his 6 months at DRA. I'm amazed at how well he's doing; when we were able to visit him, he was even offering his younger brother and sister advice! That's completely new for him. He was also willing to discuss just about everything with me, including his past to his future plans. I have never seen the maturity that he possesses from his journey at DRA. He is at DRA for him, not me, and that is very clear. Thank you all for a being a part of his life; I believe he will be a successful thanks to all of your support.

This school had a tremendous positive impact on my life since I left. I was a troubled, stubborn child and teenager and this place really helped me. The staff are amazing and even though you don't get a lot of appreciation you each are so helpful.

I have always been very close to my son, but throughout his teenage years he had some issues. We decided to send him to Diamond Ranch and it turned out to be one of the best decisions of our lives. The teachers understood he wanted to learn academically and also to be a good kid, but that when he got frustrated, he acted out and got into trouble. The caring staff at Diamond Ranch put him on the right track and made an effort to understand him. He learned that he couldn't use this behavior to get away with things and that this behavior wouldn't get him out of school like it had at his last school. We recently visited him at Diamond Ranch and you could see a difference in him; he seems to be enjoying his time and is getting along terrific with the students and staff! He's even considering joining the drama program. Overall, Diamond ranch has made such a big difference in his life and I can't wait to see more growth and success from him.

My son has found a job and we could not be more pleased as far as his general behavior since he has been home. He continues to be much more responsible and thinking before he acts. This does not come naturally to him and is a welcomed change. I am finding it hard to put into words how happy we are with what we see now in our son. I no longer get "that feeling" when he leaves the house; he has changed beyond our wildest dreams. He is not perfect but compared to what we had last year it is a pure joy. I just can't thank the staff at DRA enough. I am thankful daily for Diamond Ranch Academy and all that it has done for my family.

Before we made the decision to send our son to DRA, he was a completely different person. He was stubborn, bitter and angry, and never listened to us. He had been in and out of therapy but never had a formal diagnosis. He was doing poorly in school and was aggressive toward us and his siblings. The choice to send him to DRA was not an easy one, but it was necessary and was definitely for the better.
At first, he wanted no part of going to a boarding school or inpatient facility. It just made him more mad that we were sending him away. However, once he had spent some time there and adjusted, we began to see him making progress. He successfully completed the program and is now in his senior year, doing well in school, working, and even considering going to college! We never would have imagined that DRA would have such a significant impact on him. It has helped our entire family and has brought us closer together. Our son has become a well adjusted young man and I'm no longer stressed when I think about his future. We are so grateful to the DRA staff for their hard work and lasting change they have helped our son make.

Great organization with great people. It's obvious how dedicated the staff members are to helping students, and they make a real difference in the students' lives. Keep up the great work.

This school was a complete game changer for my son. My wife and I are so grateful for the progress he has made here and for the successful life that he has ahead of him.

Our son's troubles were rooted in depression and anxiety. Although he is a very intelligent young man and a very gifted athlete, he had a tremendous lack of self-esteem. These troubles were furthered by how he chose to cope with these issues. He became a poor student and he was combative at home and amongst his peers. He was withdrawing more and more every day and both day programs and in-patient therapy were not effective. He had turned to substance abuse, wouldn't attend school, and was getting into fights when he did go to school. At home, we could no longer keep him safe. His behavior was so combative and self-destructive that we were asked to remove him from the program as the counselors there were not prepared to be able to help him.

My wife and I wrestled with the devastating truth that we could not keep him safe at home and we had little time to decide what to do. This was when my wife and I both realized that we had independently come across the Diamond Ranch Academy website in our searches many times over the years. We understood the Diamond Ranch approach to be a very structured approach that was a longer program than any of the others we had reviewed. We were intrigued by the fact that DRA was a fully accredited high school and offered full team athletic programs. We knew that our son still truly enjoyed sports like football and wrestling. We were concerned that he was falling so far behind in his studies that he may not ever care to even graduate high school, much less go on to college.

When I visited DRA for the first time, I knew we had found the right place for our son. I will never forget the young men attending DRA who freely spoke with me about their experiences at DRA. I remember being hopeful (for the first time in a long time) that my son could one day show the discipline, respect, poise and confidence that these young men were able to demonstrate. Although my son was only beginning his junior year in high school, I felt encouraged that he could achieve his diploma and graduate from high school at DRA. The self-paced study approach suited him very well and he soon began to have some successes in school and was finishing some coursework with very good grades.

His days at DRA were not without challenges and even some setbacks. We had wonderful family visits off campus. But, he struggled somewhat with the home visits. He had fulfilled all of the program requirements and was finishing his junior year academic credits when he made his graduate visit home. Somehow he knew he was not quite ready to come home for good. We were making plans for him to come home and re-join his high school back home for his senior year. He showed great maturity in discussing with us the option that we were offering him to stay at DRA to finish high school and did end up choosing to stay.

Today he is working hard at his full-time job and continues to receive counseling. He enjoys the time he is spending with family. He likes to work hard and never misses work except for family vacations or time taken to visit his top college choices. He knows that he will soon be away again at school. We all know that he is ready. We hope and pray that others continue to find DRA and the assistance of some of the most wonderful people we have ever known. We will never forget all of you.