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Thunderbird Youth Academy is a nationally recognized youth program offered through the National Guard and the Oklahoma Military Department. The Academy is located within the city of Pryor in Northeastern Oklahoma and situated on the former Whitaker Education Training Center,. Thunderbird Youth Academy has graduated over 3,000 of Oklahoma's youth (male and female.)

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The primary mission of the Thunderbird Youth Academy (TYA) is to intervene in the lives of at-risk youth. Specifically, TYA targets 16 to 19 year old (male or female) high school dropouts giving them the opportunity to gain control over their lives by increasing academic performance; improving self esteem; and teaching essential life skills enabling them to compete in the work place and manage a healthy family environment. The program utilizes a "quasi-military" approach capitalizing on military assets, doctrine and principles to teach self-discipline, improve self-esteem and physical fitness thereby addressing the needs of the "whole person".
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Thunderbird Youth Academy (TYA) located in Pryor, Oklahoma is a program of the Oklahoma National Guard. Thunderbird Youth Academy is a 17-month program that consists of a 5 month residential phase at the Whitaker Education Training Center in Pryor, Ok, and a 12 month community-based post-residential phase.
For the first 22 weeks, enrolled youth are in residence at the Whitaker Center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The purpose of this phase is to instill in each cadet a sense of self-discipline and community spirit using a variety of methods built around the program..s eight core objectives. This phase is divided into 2 parts, the first two weeks are called Pre-ChalleNGe and the last 20 are called ChalleNGe.

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