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InnerRoads Approach—The Journey Home

As a true wilderness expedition our month long backpacking trips traverse designated Wilderness Areas in Montana and Idaho.

After a three day solo the teen completes the wilderness experience, teens spend a full weekend engaging with their parents in therapeutically focused activities. Following this, the teens move to a homestead site just outside of Missoula and begin two weeks of community-based programming. They create and complete community service projects, and work to transition and solidify the growth they made in the wilderness into living in more normalized community setting.

Throughout and after the InnerRoads Wilderness Program we remain committed to providing each family with a variety of opportunities to ensure ongoing therapeutic support. Part of this commitment is asking parents to participate in family therapy either with our family therapist or a therapist from their own community. We work hard to support the youth and their families in the youth’s transition home or to the next placement.

We would like to help your teen come home

InnerRoads Wilderness Program has successfully reunited dozens of families, with over 85% of youth returning home and being successful at home one year after graduation from our program.

Our unique approach to wilderness therapy is committed to…

• Serving our non-profit goal through providing high quality, affordable wilderness treatment;
• Continuous integration of parent participation, support, counseling and training;
• A 3:6 Staff to Student ratio while in the backcountry with a maximum group size of 6 teens;
• Youth involvement with community members in community projects;
• On-going mentoring relationships between youth and community members;
• Greater contact between licensed therapists and participants;