Monarch Center for Family Healing
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Monarch Center for Family Healing is a behavior modification program using wilderness therapy as therapeutic approach.
The owners used to run a school called Trailhead Wilderness School.
The program was founded in 1996.
The target group is youth between 10 and 18 years. There are both co-ed and single gender groups.
The average stay is between 30 and 150 days [1].
They have an admission office in Georgetown.
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Program structure
They use a base camp model. They hike for two weeks and stay one week in their basecamp near Georgetown.
They use gestalt therapy.
News
November 2008 an article in Denver Westwood News described how a girl got pregnant during a course, claims of false marketing, old and outdated insurance, accreditations and permits [2].
External links
Info pages
- Info: Program Homepage
- Info: About the program, Heal-online
Survivor Groups
- Survivor group: Group for people, who has been at a wilderness program and have survived to tell their story, Myspace
- Survivor Group: Wilderness Program Graduates, Facebook
- Survivor Group: I Survived Wilderness, Facebook
Message boards
- Forum: Wilderness family component misunderstood?, a thread on Fornits webforum
- Forum: Single gender or co-ed groups: What are the dangers and are single gender groups better?, a thread on the message board of Fight Institutional Child Abuse Network (FICAN)
- Forum: Monarch: Co-ed wilderness program and pregnancy, a thread on the message board of Community Alliance For the Ethical Treatment of Youth (CAFETY)
References
- ↑ Program Data on NATSAP
- ↑ Troubled teens were banished to the Monarch Center wilderness program. Then their troubles really started, By Adam Cayton-Holland, Denver Westwood News, Published on November 12, 2008 at 12:00pm
