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Camp Fire, formerly Camp Fire USA and originally Camp Fire Girls of America, is a co-ed youth development organization. [1] [2] Camp Fire was the first nonsectarian, multicultural organization for girls in America. [3] It is now gender-inclusive, and its programs emphasize camping and other outdoor activities. [4]
The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) is a United States trade organization of therapeutic schools, residential treatment programs, wilderness programs, outdoor therapeutic programs, young adult programs, and home-based residential programs for adolescents and young adults with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
She also founded Inspiring Girls Expeditions, a series of interdisciplinary wilderness science programs that teach high school girls about glaciology, oceanography, ecology, and mountaineering. [11] The first program, Girls on Ice, started in Washington in 1999, with Pettit taking five girls to the South Cascade Glacier. [12]
The official NOLS logo [1]. NOLS is a non-profit outdoor education school based in the United States dedicated to teaching environmental ethics, technical outdoor skills, wilderness medicine, risk management and judgment, and leadership on extended wilderness expeditions and in traditional classrooms.
Future Business Leaders of America - a high school club founded in 1940 to build future business leaders. Girls For A Change - girls implementing social change projects, founded in 2002; Girls, Inc. - roots back to 1865 but has been national since 1945; Ignition - student to student high school mentoring program
Natalie Beck and Jennifer Wong in their 2020 paper "A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Wilderness Therapy on Delinquent Behaviors Among Youth" offer three models of wilderness therapy: an expedition model, generally lasting for less than 8 weeks; a base camp model, where clients stay at a central location but engage in "short wilderness excursions"; and a long-term model, where clients engage ...
Ascent, a 41-day wilderness camp in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, where many children were sent prior to enrollment before a second CEDU program, [45] and where participant's age varied, ranging from 13 to 20 years old; [44] Northwest Academy, a therapeutic boarding school founded in 1994 for 13-17 year olds located in the state of Idaho near the Selkirk ...
The Girls Inc. (Girls Club of America) movement was founded in 1864 in Waterbury, Connecticut.The organization's mission was to help young women who had migrated from rural communities in search of job opportunities, experiencing upheaval in the aftermath of the Civil War.