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Outdoor wilderness programs specialize in helping troubled and defiant teens with behavioral and emotional problems by making use of nature and adventure as an opportunity for reflection, change and growth. By combining traditional therapy with wilderness settings, programs are able to offer unique, innovative approaches to treatments for emotional, behavioral or mental disorders.
Aspen Achievement Academy 
Aspen Achievement Academy is a flexible length of stay program for adolescents 13-17, emphasizing 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 and is contracted with a number of insurance companies and EAP's to provide treatment for mental health and substance abuse.
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LoneStar Expeditions
Lone Star Expeditions is a therapeutic intervention that combines traditional therapy with a wilderness setting to engage students in exploring their character in a safe, but challenging environment. Lone Star is a licensed treatment program with a focus on assessment, intervention and aftercare.
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Outback Therapeutic Expeditions
Outback's Wilderness Program blends the best of the "ancient cultural systems" with the most effective and proven therapeutic processes. Teens will experience the highest standards of safety and therapy in the context of one of the most powerful settings for real change - the wilderness and students can earn academic credit while in the program.
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Passages to Recovery
Passages to Recovery is an intensive outdoor drug and alcohol rehabilitation program that 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.
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Phoenix Outdoor
Phoenix Outdoor is a licensed wilderness therapy program located near Asheville, North Carolina focusing on teenagers ages 13-17 who need treatment for substance abuse or chemical dependency. Phoenix Outdoor is a 12-Step based program that utilizes the wilderness as its treatment setting. A field-based curriculum, group sessions, individual therapy, psycho-educational classes, and 12-Step support combine to encourage adolescents to consider the changes they need to make and how to create a path to stay clean and sober.
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SUWS
SUWS licensed 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 wilderness environment and experiential learning help students recognize and build upon their own sense of self-worth as they learn the value of helping others.
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SUWS of the Carolinas
SUWS of the Carolinas incorporates the Search and Rescue metaphor in the serene beauty of the 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.
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Monarch Center for Family Healing
Monarch Center for Family Healing is a wilderness therapy program and teen treatment center that provides help for youths and troubled teens between the ages of 10 and 18 that are struggling with their relationships with parents, friends, and teachers; delinquency, substance abuse, poor school performance, and legal problems.
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National Youth Network
Since 1990 the National Youth Network (initially known as the Western Youth Network) has been helping parents and professionals alike in providing education and information regarding programs and services for underachieving youth. Their wide range of services include self help online information, assessments, directories, and telephonic assessments with a masters level clinician. They hope that you find the right program for your child.
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Sage Walk
Sage Walk is a therapeutic wilderness program that serves as an intense intervention program for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 who may be experiencing emotional, academic, and/or behavioral problems. SageWalk provides help for troubled teens by bringing students and instructors together to live in a nature-based setting that provides an opportunity to learn about the natural environment, wilderness-oriented survival techniques, interpersonal relationships, communication skills, and accepting responsibility for actions and consequences. As featured on ABC's "Brat Camp."
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StrugglingTeens.com
StrugglingTeens.com is published by Woodbury Reports, Inc. Their goal is to be the leading online source of information for parents of children making poor decisions, and professionals trying to help those families and professionals working with at-risk teens. The focus is on residential Emotional Growth (Character) schools and programs that work. This includes short and long term wilderness and outdoor programs, home style programs, highly structured boarding schools, therapy boarding schools, RTCs and psychiatric hospitals for children with behavior and emotional problems. All emphasize teaching self-discipline, consequences, responsibility, accountability and improved self-esteem.
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SUWS Wilderness Programs for Troubled Teens
Wilderness therapy programs help troubled teens build self-esteem and re-discover themselves. SUWS is a licensed wilderness program for ages 12-17 located in the beautiful Idaho wilderness. The wilderness experience can serve as an excellent start for teens heading off to boarding schools or long-term programs.
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Wendigo Lake Expeditions Inc.
Wendigo Lake Expeditions is Canada's leading provider of therapeutic adventure wilderness therapy residential programs for youth with a range of behavioral and emotional difficulties. Difficulties like substance abuse, family conflict, defiance, depression, poor grades, lack of motivation, manipulations and negative peer relationships. The entire program integrates an advanced cognitive-behavioral wilderness therapy approach designed to teach and reinforce five core values: Responsibility, Effort, Attitude, Community and Honor - R.E.A.C.H.
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COPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.
EXCEL ACADEMY has a Junior High School, a College Prep High School, and a College program, enabling us to help preteens, teens, and young adults. EXCEL ACADEMY boasts a compelling history of success with students who have had previous school or therapeutic failures. EXCEL ACADEMY offers an intensely effective milieu without the look and feel of traditional programs and places a heavy emphasis on ensuring that all students feel safe and part of "the family" regardless of past environment, behavior, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or history of abuse or trauma.
