1. Average Program Length
Field Program................. 50 Days
Family Enrichment......... 2 - 3 Days
2. Impact Student Average Program Length
Field Program …………. 30 Days
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 six coed clients maximum (Adolescent group ages 14-17 and Adult group ages 18-28)
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)