THERAPEUTIC WILDERNESS PROGRAMS
Although the wilderness provides many unexpected opportunities for learning and growth, the natural consequences of negative and positive behavior are very predictable. Rather than trying to reward or punish students for certain behaviors, nature teaches the most powerful and life-changing lessons. Negative behaviors carry negative consequences and positive behaviors carry positive consequences. It may sound simple, but this only occurs naturally in therapeutic wilderness living.
In wilderness, distractions such as social and economic status, image and materialism are irrelevant. Nature does not treat any one person any differently than any other no matter their status or their possessions. Wilderness provides a neutral context to create a community with intention, one based on essential fundamentals of human community: trust, honor, integrity, effort, authenticity, and compassion.
WHY OUT OF HOME PLACEMENT
Eduplanners provides the expertise needed to help guide families through all available options when deciding upon the appropriateness of an Out of Home Placement.
Signs that indicate a child's needs are not being met within the family or by the local resources might include:
• Child continues to sabotage their life
• Break down in relationships
• Ongoing truancy or poor school performance
• Adoption/Divorce/Family Issues
• Mental illness
• Alcohol & drug use
• Educational needs beyond the scope of local community resources
• Asperger's Syndrome
• NLVD/LD
• ADD/ADHD/ODD
• Lack of motivation
