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- Four Circles Recovery Center
Four Circles Recovery Center for older teens and young adults ages 18-28 is an innovative addictions, substance abuse and co-occuring mental health disorders treatment program that combines a traditional counseling setting with extensive wilderness experiences. Four Circles employs the most effective, cutting-edge clinical modalities with an underlying traditional 12-step philosophy to create the foundation for sustained recovery.
- New Leaf Academy of North Carolina
New Leaf Academy is a private boarding school for girls in North Carolina. New Leaf's program offers a supportive, homelike environment and the finest education available. The New Leaf all girls private school program is tailored to 10 to -14- year-old girls who need extra guidance, nurturing and personal attention in their academic and personal lives. Courses are offered year-round, with the average length of stay lasting between 14 and 18 months.
- Phoenix Outdoor
Phoenix Outdoor is a licensed wilderness-based substance abuse and chemical dependency treatment program located near Asheville, North Carolina for teenagers ages 13-17. At Phoenix Outdoor, a supportive peer group and trained instructors help the adolescent reflect and consider how life may be different without substances. Trained therapists help the client draw analogies between their wilderness experience and real life to give them insight and perspective. A certified addictions counselor offers substance abuse classes, group sessions, and counseling. Phoenix Outdoor offers the adolescent and their family hope, support, knowledge and a process to create a substance-free life.
- Stone Mountain School
Stone Mountain School, a therapeutic boarding school for boys located in the mountain setting of a 100-acre campus in western North Carolina, serves boys ages 11 to 16 with issues such as attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities. Stone Mountain School offers numerous outdoor activities that have both a recreation and therapeutic benefit. The beautiful yet rustic surrounding serves as an experiential classroom where the natural and logical consequences of daily living are clear and understood. The program offers group therapy and academics through an adventure-based experiential model. Stone Mountain School creates a caring yet highly structured community by limiting the living and academic group size. Staff teaches and mentor basic living skills while implementing the Level System of Personal Development that is at the core of assisting young men toward responsible, self-managing behavior.
- SUWS of the Carolinas
SUWS of the Carolinas is a therapeutic wilderness program with a focus on clinical intervention and assessment. The program uses the outdoors as an alternative to conventional treatment environments, while engaging students using traditional therapeutic methods. While at SUWS of the Carolinas students begin to accept responsibility for personal decisions, address individual and family issues, and become invested in their own personal growth. Since 1981, SUWS programs have provided essential guidance and support to thousands of misdirected and at-risk adolescents.
- SUWS Seasons
Seasons is the SUWS of the Carolinas program for younger teens ages 11 -13. SUWS Seasons is a licensed, clinically focused wilderness treatment program for younger children designed to identify the limiting beliefs and unhealthy behaviors that often can prevent the pursuit of constructive goals and personal achievement. Research and developmental psychology indicates that 11 to 13 year-olds have very specific needs: primarily safety, security, and predictability. Pre-adolescent children and younger teens think in concrete terms and require tangible experiences from which to build.
- Talisman Summer Camps
Talisman Summer Program caters to youth, ages 9-17, with issues such as attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities who would excel in a residential program that focuses on establishing positive routines and provides diverse daily activities. Our activities provide a fun environment in which campers can develop self-esteem, trust in self and others, and the basics of good decision-making. We believe that the skills learned during our programming will later transfer to home, school, and in other social settings.
- Wellspring Academies
Wellspring Academies are the worlds most effective programs for weight loss. Designed for children, teens, and young adults ages 11-24, students at our Academies demonstrate the best documented outcomes of any non-surgical weight loss intervention for any age group. Wellspring Academies (formerly Academy of the Sierras) employ a scientifically based, clinically proven approach to weight loss. Wellspring promotes a healthy lifestyle through a low-fat diet program, activity management, and comprehensive cognitive-behavioral therapy.
- Asheville School
Every action undertaken by faculty and staff at Asheville School supports their mission: To prepare our students for college and for life, and to provide an atmosphere in which all members of a diverse school community appreciate and strive for excellence - an atmosphere which nurtures character and fosters the development of mind, body, and spirit.
- Auldern Academy
Auldern Academy is a college-preparatory boarding school with a personal growth curriculum that offers a traditional boarding school environment with challenging but supportive academics and a personal growth program designed to prepare young women for college matriculation and independence.
- Christ School
Christ School is a college preparatory school affiliated with the Episcopal Church. Our mission is to produce educated men of good character, prepared for both scholastic achievement in college and productive citizenship in adult society.
- Saint Mary's School
Founded in 1842, Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, North Carolina is an independent, Episcopal, college-preparatory, boarding and day school, dedicated to academic excellence and personal achievement for young women in grades 9-12.
- Salem Academy
Salem Academy is committed to providing an atmosphere in which the intellectual, spiritual, social, physical, and personal growth of each student is fostered. Ever mindful of their Christian heritage and commitment to education as an independent school, they pledge to retain and nurture those values which promote growth and are important in society.
- The Patterson School
The Patterson School is dedicated to providing family-oriented college-preparatory education for the development of the whole person. A Patterson education develops skills, knowledge, experience, and attitudes required for a student to get into the college of choice and to be successful and happy in his or her future life.
