Through cooperation with the Juvenile Court of Calhoun County, and funding through the Department of Youth Services (DYS), Family Links has developed the Success Academy. The purpose of the Academy is to provide an educational and therapeutic safety net to prevent juvenile offenders from being committed to the Department of Youth Services custody.

Youth ages 13-18 are referred by Juvenile Court.

The program includes academic remediation and school credit recovery for those youth too young to be eligible for a GED. Any youth eligible for a GED who choose to return to school may be eligible for a diploma. Each student is assigned a laptop computer to be used in class. GED classes are coordinated with Gadsden State Community College. The course of instruction includes Math, English/Literature, Science, and Social Studies, with various other classes offered, including physical education, health, keyboarding, basic computer applications, filmmaking, and community service.

The Calhoun/Cleburne Mental Health Center provides individual and group counseling.

The Academy operates on a ten month school schedule, meeting the local school systems' schedule of 202 academic days per calendar year. The basic structure will be ten weeks on and two weeks off, providing students and staff with rejuvenation breaks, while not allowing too long a time lapse for students to have to "re-learn" what they have already been taught.

The court will require parents to attend Parent Project classes, which is a ten week program to teach parents better methods of dealing with resistant children.