Wilderness Programs Directory
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. Our wilderness program’s nurturing approach helps participants address personal issues, achieve success in a safe environment, and develop their leadership potential. Adirondack specializes in helping young adults age 13 to 17.
Aspen Achievement Academy
Aspen Achievement Academy is a licensed treatment program that integrates an accredited academic component, a sophisticated therapeutic model, and an experiential education curriculum in a healing wilderness environment. Aspen Achievement Academy is a fully-accredited, professionally supervised outdoor therapy program for adolescents ages 13 to 17.
Four Circles Recovery
Four Circles Recovery Center is an innovative addictions, substance abuse and co-occuring mental health disorders treatment program for young adults ages 18-28 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.
Lone Star Expeditions
Lone Star Expeditions is a therapeutic intervention in Texas that combines traditional therapy with a wilderness setting to engage students in exploring their character in a safe, but challenging environment. We offer our program-specific model which employs the use of our national forest, ropes course, and base camp to provide one of the most comprehensive and cost effective wilderness programs in the industry. We accept students ages 13-17.
Outback Therapeutic Expeditions
Outback’s Wilderness Program for youth ages 13-17 blends the best of the “ancient cultural systems” with the most effective and proven therapeutic processes. Many of our students have been experiencing family conflict, been involved in negative peer groups, were isolating themselves, or were focusing excessive time on computers. Some have been struggling academically, have low self-esteem, may be abusive toward their parents and siblings, or may be experimenting with drugs and alcohol.
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.
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 . Wilderness therapy removes distractions, prevents the possibility of substance use during treatment, and offers a high impact intervention leading the adolescent to realize there is a need for change. Phoenix conducts an in-depth assessment to determine the severity of substance use, identifies and works through issues that lead to the behavior, offers a specialized therapeutic curriculum, and introduces the 12-Step process.
SageWalk – The Wilderness School
SageWalk’s wilderness program offers a powerful and significant approach to help your teen overcome emotional and behavioral problems. Our mission is to resolve family conflict in order to reunite families that have been torn apart by the behavioral problems of a troubled child. By offering committed, professional services that challenge boys and girls ages 13-17 emotionally, academically, and physically we help troubled teens understand the causes of low self esteem, learn to overcome behavioral problems, and return home with respect and cooperation as the goal, instead of conflict and strife.
SUWS Adolescent
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. 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 Youth
Working with the distinctive needs of 11-13 year olds, the minimum 28-day 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. Our base camp model provides safety, security and predictability. The program’s high staff-to-student ratio and personalized treatment plans ensure emotional growth and increased awareness of self and 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. The wilderness setting removes modern distractions, simplifies choices and teaches valuable lessons. As a result, students begin to accept responsibility for personal decisions, address individual and family issues, and become invested in their own personal growth. SUWS of the Carolinas specializes in the assessment and treatment of students ages 13-17.
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.
