by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Clinical, Program, Staff Stories, Wilderness Therapy Programming
By Mike DeLuca, LCSW Since the days of vision quests in the wild by First Nation youth, or much later in the 1960s when the Colorado Outward Bound School first started using wilderness to foster resiliency, character, and compassion in American youth, humans have...
by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Clinical, Staff Stories
By Mike DelucaLCSW, Therapist – Summit Achievement Ever since I entered the “helping profession” I have heard the mantra “You can’t adequately care for others if you haven’t cared for yourself.” I remember learning this mantra when I was 15 years old while...
by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Clinical, Program, Wilderness Therapy Programming
Anxiety is challenging for young people and their families and Summit Achievement is here to help. We know that many productive, engaged, and happy children can become withdrawn and sullen to the point of not being able to leave their house or their rooms by the time...
by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Clinical, Program
Summit Achievement finds the Stages of Change Model as a beneficial way to look at the change process for troubled teens and young adults. The Stages of Change Model, technically referred to as the Transtheoretical Model of Change, was first developed...
by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Academic, Admissions, Clinical, Program, Wilderness Therapy Programming
Summit Achievement has had an academic component since it started operations in 1996. The impetus, at that time, was that one of the co-founders was working as a psychotherapist at a Northeast Boarding School and counseled many students who had gone to wilderness...
by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Clinical, Program, Wilderness Therapy Programming
Summit Achievement has achieved being one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious accredited programs for struggling teens by providing our students and their families with high-quality treatment, challenging academics, and outdoor experiences. At times we are...
