Statistics
There are many statistics that fully demonstrate the critical nature of nontraditional care for troubled youth. Many people commonly believe the MYTH that out-of-home care should only be for youth who come from low income families, youth with drug and alcohol problems or youth who have been abandoned. The FACT is that there are many reasons to consider an out of home placement for youth! Our innovative program can completely turn around the negative paths being followed by some complicated youth, and subsequently the entire atmosphere, dynamics and relationships in their families.
Statistics can often be utilized to show only positive results or only negative results. However, the truth of the matter is that there are typically positive and negatives to nearly every proposed undertaking. The trick is to survey all of the evidence and make an educated decision based upon you and your family's needs.
Our innovative treatment programs statistics speak for themselves.
One type of program that has been developed to aid families with complicated youth and subsequent out of home placements is Wilderness Programs. This section of our program description will deal with statistics, outcomes and demographics of Wilderness Programs, delinquent and unruly youth and foster care in general.
*An intensive study on Wilderness challenge programs (Wilson & Lipsey, 2000) found a number of startling statistics. This study analyzed all 28 of the available research studies on youth who had been residents in a Wilderness program resulting in an involvement of over 3,000 youth. The youth studied ranged in age from 10-21 years of age. The studies found that wilderness programs had marginal positive effects on youth who had been previously institutionalized but less positive effects on youth who had not. Further, the only Camps that exuded consistent positive results in the youth had sophisticated therapeutic components, and these such camps were scant. Another study (Sveen & Denhom, 1993), found that the majority of incidents and offenses in wilderness programs are not reported to authorities. Unfortunately, this would seem to lead one to believe that the number of unfortunate deaths that have resulted from these programs would be avoidable if abuse offenses from the programs were properly reported. Further, over of the youth who had previously broken the law, repeated the offense once out of the program.