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Learn about adventure programs that are located in a wide variety of outdoor settings and offer lots of summer fun below.
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions 
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions is a character development wilderness program for troubled teens that promotes personal growth through a focus on insight-oriented experiences. The forested, mountain setting removes urban distractions and simplifies options to help students gain insight into their core values and accept responsibility for their choices. Our wilderness program's nurturing approach helps participants address personal issues, achieve success in a safe environment, and develop their leadership potential. Wilderness programs for troubled teens serve as excellent alternatives to boot camps because teens learn through natural consequences and positive peer relationships.
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Aspen Achievement Academy
Located in Southern Utah, 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. As a clinically based program , Aspen Achievement Academy is contracted with a number of insurance companies and EAP's to provide treatment for mental health and substance abuse.
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Lone Star Expeditions
Lone Star Expeditions is the alternative to boot camp environments, licensed to offer students ages 13-17 outdoor experiential therapy, while working under the care of doctorate and master’s level licensed therapists. Based in the temperate climate of southeast Texas, Lone Star Expeditions is a therapeutic program designed by clinicians to provide a focus on assessment, intervention and aftercare. In a traditional camp setting free of modern distractions, students have the opportunity to simplify choices, gain insight into their values, and learn to accept responsibility for their decisions. As they progress through the program's level system, students experience success and develop healthy self-esteem. Program emphasis on keeping parents connected to facilitate overall family growth.
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Outback Wilderness Program
Outback's Wilderness Program for youth ages 13-17 blends the best of the "ancient cultural systems" with the most effective and proven therapeutic processes. Many of our students have been experiencing family conflict, been involved in negative peer groups, were isolating themselves, or were focusing excessive time on computers. Some have been struggling academically, have low self-esteem, may be abusive toward their parents and siblings, or may be experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Others are bright but underachieving. Your child will experience the highest standards of safety and therapy in the context of one of the most powerful settings for real change - the wilderness. Students can earn academic credit while in the program.
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Passages to Recovery
 Passages to Recovery is a nomadic wilderness program incorporating an innovative, holistic approach to a variety of issues including substance abuse, anxiety, depression, difficulties with relationships and others. We are a treatment and recovery program set in the wilderness. Passages to Recovery specializes in helping adults 18 to 50. The program offers a flexible length of stay with a minimum of 35 days. The program integrates the philosophy of the twelve steps with traditional therapy and the healing power of the wilderness. |
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SageWalk
SageWalk is a therapeutic wilderness program that serves as an intense intervention program for troubled teens by bringing students and instructors together to live in a nature-based setting. By being outdoors and away from distractions, teenagers get an opportunity to learn wilderness-oriented survival techniques, interpersonal relationships, communication skills, and accepting responsibility for actions and consequences.
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SUWS Adolescent Wilderness Program
SUWS Adolescent specializes in helping struggling teens ages 14-17with behavioral and emotional problems. Operating in southern Idaho since 1981, SUWS has assisted young people with identifying and working through internal conflicts and emotional obstacles that have kept them from responding to parental efforts, schools, and treatment. These are children who are inherently good and have the ability to be successful, but because of unhealthy misperceptions about themselves, they have limited access to their own abilities and strengths. SUWS provides families with a safe and immediate intervention by utilizing its search and rescue metaphor, individualized treatment plans, and flexible length of stay. The outdoor 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 is a therapeutic wilderness program with a focus on clinical intervention and assessment. The program uses the wilderness setting to remove modern distractions, simplify choices, and teache valuable lessons. As a result, students begin to accept responsibility for personal decisions, address individual and family issues, and become invested in their own personal growth. Since 1981, SUWS programs have provided essential guidance and support to thousands of misdirected and at-risk adolescents. SUWS of the Carolinas specializes in the assessment and treatment of students ages 13-17.
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SUWS Youth Wilderness Program
Working with the distinctive needs of 11-13 year olds, the minimum 28-day SUWS Youth Wilderness Program offers a highly structured environment that provides each child with a positive and rewarding learning experience. The concrete thinking inherent in this age group requires tangible learning experiences from which to build. Our base camp model provides safety, security and predictability. The program's high staff-to-student ratio and personalized treatment plans ensure emotional growth and increased awareness of self and others. Unique in that the Youth Program uses llamas in the therapeutic process, a child has the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in developing responsibility and care-giving skills. Twenty-eight day courses begin every week.
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Talisman Summer Camps
 Talisman summer programs offer camps for children ages 8 to 17 with LD, ADD and ADHD. Our unique summer camps offer much more than the typical summer adventure. We specialize in creating camps that offer not only adventure, but learning experiences, for children and teenagers with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism. From our Base Camp program where teens take part in hiking trips, swimming, rock climbing, and boating to our SIGHT program that allows children with Asperger's and high-functioning autism to enjoy the outdoors while building social skills, Talisman provides parents with unique alternatives to ordinary summer camps that cannot focus on their child's special needs. |
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Adirondacks Adventures
Adirondacks Adventures is a multi-skill adventure for campers ages 13-17 with ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, or similar learning disorders. While exploring the Saranac Lake region of the ancient and beautiful Adirondack Mountains, participants will develop self confidence, self regulation, communication skills, and a sense of community. Over the course of the 3-week expedition, participants realize personal growth as they achieve together each of the challenges before them.
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Adventures Cross-Country
Adventures Cross-Country offers adventure programs in a wide variety of outdoor settings. Students participate in multi-activity wilderness adventures in National Parks and Forests throughout North America, Central America and Australia and Europe.
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Beaver Camp
The mission of Beaver Camp and Adirondack Mennonite Camping Association is to provide facilities and programs, infused by God's love, in which individuals of every age are invited to establish and grow in their relationships with Jesus Christ and others.
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Blue Ridge Adventure Camps
Blue Ridge Adventure Camps provide safe outdoor experiences in which boys can learn about themselves and others, expand personal comfort zones with individual and group challenges, and have a blast doing it.
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Boys Ranch Alaska
With open hearts and open minds and just a little bit of courage, Boys Ranch Alaska brings together your young men so they can see and know that they are not alone in the problems that they are facing. Being able to have the opportunity to help others will in turn help themselves.
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Camp Arowhon
Camp Arowhon's mission is to give every camper a safe place, physically and emotionally; for children to learn activity skills and return home more confident; a camping experience rich with caring, learning and respect.
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Camp Augusta
Camp Augusta's mission is to provide children a safe, fun-filled experience that will serve as a catalyst for personal growth and an appreciation of the outdoors. Their nurturing atmosphere is achieved by limiting our total number of campers per session, increased supervision, and a dedicated and caring staff.
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Camp Birch Trails
Camp Birch Trails provides girls with opportunities to develop independence, confidence and leadership skills, to nurture positive values such as caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Girls build lifelong skills at camp, while making new friends and special memories.
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Camp Birchwood
The all-female environment at Birchwood provides growing girls with what they need more than ever these days—a safe, secure, accepting place where they can truly be themselves. Campers are able to cast aside society’s expectations, popularity contests, and competitive stresses for a simple life filled with fun, giggles, games, playful moments, and fantastic friendships.
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Camp Hawthorne
Camp Hawthorne's goals are to help campers grow into healthy, tolerant, and self-confident individuals, capable of living and working with others in a community setting while creating lasting relationships with their peers.
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Camp Lakeland
Camp Lakeland strives to achieve an outstanding camping experience through challenging and fulfilling programs that encourage social growth and skill development. We allow each camper the opportunity to discover his or her own potential and build self esteem within a supportive Jewish Environment.
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Camp Mowglis
Mowglis provides a wholesome summer learning experience through which boys develop confidence, independence, personal resources, and a sense of responsibility towards others and the environment.
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Camp Nominingue
Since 1925, Camp Nominingue has become widely known as a place where the spirit of real camping still exists and a place to cultivate friendships, self confidence and a sense of achievement; a place to learn new skills and take part in a wide variety of activities and outdoor games.
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Camp Temagami
Camp Temagami offers a complete summer camp experience with focus on the art of traditional canoe travel that gives campers the opportunity to gain an understanding of the importance of a balanced lifestyle and an appreciation for the Canadian wilderness.
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Camp Voyageur
Whether playing sports or fishing deep in the bush, Camp Voyageur fills summers with adventure, fun and friends set in a pristine wilderness.
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Colvig Silver Camps
Colvig Silver Camps' mission is to facilitate the development of caring, thoughtful, and responsible human beings. Their philosophy is environmentally oriented and non-competitive, and our choice based format is designed to develop self-esteem, leadership skills, responsibility, and teamwork.
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Green River Preserve
The Green River Preserve summer camp was founded with a mission and program designed specifically to meet the needs of bright young naturalists. All aspects of the camp are thoughtfully and deliberately adjusted to accomplish this objective.
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Gunflint Wilderness Camp
Gunflint experiences make memories of a lifetime and build friendships that surpass the test of time. Every situation at Gunflint, whether amusing or challenging, is an opportunity for campers to improve themselves as individuals, and to improve themselves as a group.
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Featured Summer Camp Programs
Is your teen struggling with behavioral and emotional issues that are prohibiting him or her from growing into a mature young adult with a positive future?
Talisman Summer Camps offer programs for children ages 8 to 17 with LD, ADD and ADHD much more than the typical summer adventure. Talisman specializes in creating camps that offer not only adventure, but learning experiences, for children and teenagers with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism. Learn more about Talisman Camps >>