by kayla | Jul 24, 2023 | Program, Wilderness Therapy Programming
Summer is a beautiful time of year to be in New England. Longer days and warmer weather make it possible to explore different parts of our field area while our students are out on their weekly “expos.” During the summer months, our adventure therapy programming...
by kayla | Sep 13, 2021 | Admissions, Clinical, Program, Staff Stories, Wilderness Therapy Programming
by Will White, DA, LCSW, MLADC CSW, MLADC Over 25 years ago, I was part of the team that started Summit Achievement, the country’s first hybrid model wilderness therapy program. Before joining Summit, I practiced as a licensed mental...
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, 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 We know that many productive, engaged, and happy children can become withdrawn and sullen to the point of not being able to leave their house or their rooms by the time...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 | 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 | 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...