Summer Camps
Talisman Summer Camps - Black Mountain, NC - Co-educational - Ages 9-17
Pine Ridge Academy is a therapeutic boarding school and residential treatment center for youth and teenagers who are experiencing emotional, behavioral, or academic difficulties such as substance abuse, depression, thought disorders, learning disabilities, or ADHD. Enrollment is limited to 14 students who reside in a nurturing environment designed to model a home and family-like setting. The program includes therapy, academics, and recreational activities.
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions - Saranac Lake, NY - Co-educational - Ages 14-1
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions is a character development program 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. Our program's nurturing approach helps participants address personal issues, achieve success in a safe environment, and develop their leadership potential.
Aspen Achievement Academy - Loa, Utah - Co-educational - Ages 13-17
Aspen Achievement Academy is a fully-accredited, professionally supervised outdoor therapy program for adolescents, ages 13-17. Aspen specializes in working with adolescents who exhibit behavioral or emotional problems, low self-esteem, poor grades, depression, defiance toward authority, and other self-defeating behaviors. Named one of the nation's most reputable programs by U.S. News & World Report.
Passages to Recovery - Loa, Utah - Co-educational - Ages 18 & over
Passages to Recovery is a 35-50 day intensive outdoor drug and alcohol rehabilitation program for 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. Passages to Recovery's staff includes experienced wilderness therapy guides, licensed therapists, and chemical dependency recovery professionals.
SUWS Youth & Adolescent - Gooding, Idaho - Co-educational - Ages 11-17
SUWS Adolescent and Youth Programs specialize in helping struggling teens 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. These are children who are inherently good and have the ability to be successful, but because of unhealthy misperceptions about themselves, they have limited access to their own abilities and strengths. SUWS provides 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. Our Youth Program addresses the distinctive needs of younger children, ages 11-13.
SUWS of the Carolinas - Old Fort, NC - Co-educational - Ages 14-18
Employing the successful therapeutic process of its West Coast sister program, SUWS of the Carolinas is set against the serene backdrop of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. SUWS of the Carolinas has a flexible length-of-stay, typically between 4 and 7 weeks, with extended care options. SUWS of the Carolinas offers an expanded curriculum designed to address the needs of those families seeking solace for their struggling child, ages 14-18. Distinguished by its three-day parent program component, a clinical PhD on-staff, and licensed counselors, SUWS of the Carolinas offers hope.
