Wilderness Programs

  • Provide intervention and assessment for a shorter time period.
  • Offer highly skilled and dedicated staff
  • Are NOT boot camps
  • Utilize positive peer culture in a natural setting
  • Provide therapeutic adventure experiences that are physically and emotionally challenging
  • Teach basic survival skills so teens can gain self-esteem
  • Are highly effective for defiant teens that are lacking confidence, experiencing family conflict, chemically dependent, underachieving or angry
  • Focus on therapy and not academics
  • Promote communication with family therapist on a weekly basis and with child through letter writing
  • Offer online parent check in web sites
  • Require family attendance either before, during or after the experience
  • Range from 42 to 120 days and serve small groups from 4-10 teens or young adults
  • Cost $425- $500 per day

Selecting an appropriate school tailored to the educational, emotional, social, athletic and artistic of your child is the key to success.

Educational Options is here to direct families to the best possible resources.