A non-profit group says its early intervention youth boot camp in south-east Queensland will help put "at risk" teenagers on the right track.

The State Government is funding a two-year trial of boot camps, including a sentenced youths camp in Cairns in the far north and an early intervention camp in the Scenic Rim region in the south.

The Scenic Rim camp started yesterday, with five boys aged 14 and 15 arriving at Lake Maroon, south-west of Brisbane.

Kokoda Challenge Association is running the camp.

CEO Samantha Klintworth says it will help 20 young people each year.

"Forty young people in total will be part of the pilot," she said.

"The goal is to work with young people who are at risk of entering the criminal justice system and work with them in a way that prevents them progressing in that direction."

She says it is the start of a big journey.

"The program involves having a wilderness adventure survival experience for 10 days and then come back and work with us while they're living in their homes," she said.

"Then we return at the end of that three months for another five-day camp."