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- Adirondack Leadership Expeditions
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions is a character development wilderness program for troubled teens that promotes personal growth through a focus on insight-oriented experiences. The forested, mountain setting removes urban distractions and simplifies options to help students gain insight into their core values and accept responsibility for their choices.
- Aspen Achievement Academy
Located in Southern Utah, Aspen Achievement Academy's program for adolescents 13-17 emphasizes therapy, experiential learning and behavioral change. As one of the few licensed and accredited outdoor treatment programs, AAA has a decade of history in providing high impact professional staffed treatment to adolescents and their families. As a clinically based program , Aspen Achievement Academy is contracted with a number of insurance companies and EAP's to provide treatment for mental health and substance abuse.
- 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.
- Outback's Wilderness Program
Outback's Wilderness Program blends the best of the "ancient cultural systems" with the most effective and proven therapeutic processes. Many teens who attend Outback are experiencing family conflict, are involved in negative peer groups, struggling academically, have low self-esteem, may be abusive toward their parents and siblings, or may be experimenting with drugs and alcohol. While at Outback, your child will experience the highest standards of safety and therapy in the context of one of the most powerful settings for real change - the wilderness. Students can earn academic credit while in the program.
- Passages to Recovery
Passages to Recovery is a 60 day intensive outdoor drug and alcohol treatment program for young adults ages 18 and over, operating in the beautiful high desert region of Southern Utah. The program offers a unique, innovative approach to substance abuse treatment, integrating a 12-step treatment with wilderness journeying and rites of passage. In addition, Passages to Recovery offers primitive living skills, general physical fitness, a strong yet diverse spiritual component, family participation and aftercare planning.
- 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.
- SUWS Adolescent Program
SUWS Adolescent specializes in helping struggling teens ages 14-17 with behavioral and emotional problems. Operating in southern Idaho since 1981, SUWS has assisted young people with identifying and working through internal conflicts and emotional obstacles that have kept them from responding to parental efforts, schools, and treatment. SUWS wilderness programs provide families with a safe and immediate intervention by utilizing its search and rescue metaphor, individualized treatment plans, and flexible length of stay. The outdoor environment and experiential learning help students recognize and build upon their own sense of self-worth as they learn the value of helping others.
- 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.
- SUWS Youth Programs
Working with the distinctive needs of 11-13 year olds, SUWS Youth Wilderness Program offers a highly structured environment that provides each child with a positive and rewarding learning experience. The concrete thinking inherent in this age group requires tangible learning experiences from which to build. The program's high staff-to-student ratio and personalized treatment plans ensure emotional growth and increased awareness of self and others. Unique in that the Youth Program uses llamas in the therapeutic process, a child has the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in developing responsibility and care-giving skills.
