by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Program, Wilderness Therapy Programming
Summit Achievement has been continuously operating in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire since 1996. The program has a long history of helping troubled teens and their families find success in every season. It can be seen as a challenge to have a young...
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...
by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Program, Wilderness Therapy Programming
On a regular bases the Summit admissions team is asked, “Are you like Outward Bound?” Our response is “Yes and no”. HOW SUMMIT ACHIEVEMENT AND OUTWARD BOUND ARE SIMILAR We respond “Yes” as Outward Bound and Summit Achievement combine experiential education...
by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Academic, Admissions, Clinical, Program
Summit has been providing wilderness therapy and education at our residential facility in the mountains of western Maine since 1996. Summit is unique in the field as 99% of our students come with their parents for enrollment. The other 1% come with family members or...
