1. Average Program Length
Field Program................. 50 Days
Family Enrichment......... 2 - 3 Days
2. Impact Student ( coming from other programs )
/p Because every Client and Family is unique, Wilderness Quest's staff makes aftercare recommendations at the end of each program, in conjunction with referring agencies, counselors or consultants. Some examples are:
- Self-help, counseling, and aftercare meetings at home
- Continued treatment at Wilderness Quest
- Residential placement
Each group has 8 coed clients maximum (Young Adult group ages 18-28)
Each group has 8 coed clients maximum (Adolescent group ages 14-17)
WILDERNESS QUEST is Very Successful With:
- Wilderness Quest's specialty and most successful areas are substance use/abuse treatment and family systems education
- Low self-esteem
- Depression
- Attention deficit issues
- Anger (no violence towards persons)
- Emotional pain
- Sexual, physical and/or emotional abuse
- Frustration from learning differences
- Entitlement issues
- Inappropriate sexual behavior
- Oppositional behavior
- Abandonment issues:
- Adoption
- Divorce
- Attachment issues
- Overweight
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Recent suicide attempts
- Physical handicap
- Psychotropic medications
- Alcohol/drug abuse and addiction
- Failure in college
- Immaturity
- Fear of adulthood
- Fear of responsibility
- Diabetic
- Grand Mal Epilepsy
- Full Scale IQ 89 or under
- Hypoglycemic
- Renal disease
- Arthritis that would hinder hiking or physical activity
- Pregnancy
- History of physical violence against persons
- Sexual abuse of teenage peers
- Psychotic
- Delusions
- Chronic Schizophrenic
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis (if contagious)
- HIV positive
- Any contagious disease, chicken pox, measles, etc.
- Hepatitis A, B, C (if contagious)