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July 15, 2002 – Ian August dies during a hike whilst attending the Skyline Journey Wilderness therapy program. [27] August 2002 – 11 teens are found in distress at a wilderness therapy program camp and taken into protective custody by Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services child and family services division. [28]
The troubled teen industry has a precursor in the drug rehabilitation program called Synanon, founded in 1958 by Charles Dederich. [11] By the late 1970s, Synanon had developed into a cult and adopted a resolution proclaiming the Synanon Religion, with Dederich as the highest spiritual authority, allowing the organization to qualify as tax-exempt under US law.
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.
Unsilenced has been campaigning for Congress to create the first federal law to regulate wilderness therapy camps like Trails Carolina, as well as other programs at boarding schools, residential ...
The Transylvania County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a 12-year-old boy who died Feb. 3 at Trails Carolina, which operates as a wilderness therapy camp in Lake Toxaway. It is the ...
A therapeutic boarding school is a residential school offering therapy for students with emotional or behavioral issues. [1] The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs listed 140 schools and programs as of 2005. [1] [2] Many therapeutic boarding schools in the United States have been connected to the abusive troubled teen ...
A 12-year-old boy who was enrolled in a wilderness therapy program for troubled youths in North Carolina died in February from an inability to breathe in the mostly plastic tentlike structure he ...
Aspen Achievement Academy has been a subject of several media reports and works of popular culture: The 1999 book Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild by Gary Ferguson, ISBN 0-312-20008-0 recounts the author's experiences and observations during several months he spent in the wilderness with teens at Aspen Achievement Academy.