The Hope Academy

Hope Academy is a tuition-free public high school for Indiana students in grades 9-12. As The only recovery high school in Indiana and one of just 43 nationwide Hope Academy is a welcoming and supportive academic environment committed to sobriety, academic success and personal growth. Hope Academy is a member of The association of recovery schools. The primary objective of Hope Academy is to help adolescents struggling with The disease of addiction earn a high school diploma. Hope Academy is open to all Indiana high school students.

Hope Academy provides a recovery and wellness curriculum, allowing students The opportunity for personal growth in their recovery from drug and/or alcohol addiction. Each student is required to take a recovery-focused basic skills course. Students learn basic skills, including balancing a check book, how to interview and write a resume and time management, to prepare them for life after high school. Most importantly, students learn how to live their life clean and sober. Hope Academy has a recovery coach and peer specialists providing The students support and tools for recovery. Hope Academy uses The 90-in-90 workbook, a tool for recovery wellness, as a way for students to journal on their recovery process. Students are required to attend recovery management and 12-step meetings outside of school.

Experience tells us that long-term success for adolescents in recovery is grounded in a good education and ongoing support. Research indicates that students, who have substance abuse disorders and are not in recovery will likely drop out of high school, face a life of incarcerations or they will die from The disease (Indiana prevention research center, 2004).