Teen Wilderness Program
Located in the beautiful mountain range of the Idaho Panhandle, we work with young people between the ages of 13 yrs to 18 yrs old. The permanent facility, nestled in this pristine wilderness setting, enables us to offer a safe, deliberate and exhilarating process for stabilizing behavior, assessing physical and psychological health and building a plan for success. The process begins with a thorough physical examination and labwork. The next step is establishing a consistent routine for your child to assure good self-care; healthy eating, daily exercise and adequate sleep. The quality clinical treatment includes individual sessions with a licensed therapist along with group therapy, substance abuse education and experiential learning activities; utilizing ropes stations located on site. The high-impact wilderness trek is based on the principles of accountability and empowerment. Our inclusive approach to treatment involves your child in the planning process for personal, group and course goals. Our comprehensive approach is coordinated by the therapist working with you and your child, directing the team and individualizing the therapeutic approach to meet your child’s needs. The result is a deliberate and coordinated process for “programmed unavoidable success”.Our team can help your child break destructive behavior patterns, feel greater self-worth, and reconnect with their inner strength and resources. At Our Program your troubled teen will learn powerful tools, enabling them to make healthy choices that can move their lives in a positive new direction. You can’t always think your way into better living, but you can live your way into better thinking. Start the process now by calling 800-974-1999
By changing the children’s environment alone, the wilderness setting moves children from their "emotional comfort zone" by shifting them to new and challenging opportunities. The demands of mastering their new setting stimulates students to engage in their natural behavioral habits, allowing our therapists and highly trained counselors to positively engage them using traditional therapeutic methods.
Our outdoor experience is designed to engage the deeply held passions and desire for purpose that characterize adolescence. Students are expertly guided through our experiential activities allowing them to discover for themselves their inner strengths while increasing self-awareness and self-esteem. We call this “Self Discovery in Nature”. The program uses a Medicine Wheel metaphor to teach students character development, as well as to assist in their identification of core values and guiding principles.
Students are personally challenged as they proceed to the course experience; and in the midst of giving of themselves, they find themselves. It is not our intent to train students in survival skills, but rather to allow them to discover their inner value and strengths by becoming essential, functioning members of a team. The individual reflection time also strengthens within to commit to the goals they have set for themselves. Living this metaphor throughout the program facilitates the process of searching for one's true self, and illuminates how best to stay true to this self-discovery upon completion of the program.
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