This course is a canoe & backpack expedition for teens struggling with decision making, risky behaviors, defiance or poor school performance.
It is not a therapeutic program and cannot accommodate students with certain psychiatric conditions, significant struggles with chemical dependency or those with a history of violent behavior.
Intercept
Intercept is a special program of Outward Bound, one of the oldest wilderness adventure programs in the world. It is designed to serve teens and their families and help them address behaviors such as unhealthy risk-taking, low motivation defiance or poor school performance. Courses are presented as metaphors for the transition from childhood to adulthood and designed to help teens connect their desire for more freedom with the reality that they must take on additional responsibility. Courses are highly structured with explicit wilderness, communication and leadership skills progressions. Courses also include a required Parent/Guardian Seminar at the end of the course.
Course Description
Designed for teens who are struggling to learn responsibility and mange the transition to adolescence, your journey will begin by strapping everything that you and your crew needs to live for the first week of your Outward Bound course to your back and heading off by foot into the Ozark Mountains and hiking on Ozark Highland Trail, one of the première hiking trails in the United States. As we hike along the trail be prepared for wonderful vistas, terrific streamside walks, lots of deep green pools to swim in, bluffs and rocks and boulders galore, forests that go on forever, and literally hundreds of waterfalls. If you are interested in wildlife there is plenty here for you to see. There is a wide variety wildlife that lives in the forest along the OHT including white-tailed deer, elk, wild turkey, grouse, squirrels, armadillos, chipmunks, and a large variety of birds. After you have finished backpacking and rock climbing along the Ozark Highland Trail, you follow the trail down until it meets the Mulberry River and trade those heavy packs in for canoes. You will spend six days paddling and taking small day hikes to see historic sites, beautiful vistas, and waterfalls along the Mulberry River.
Students will be introduced to the adventure and challenge of expeditionary canoe travel, camp-craft, and group dynamics.
As the course progresses, students achieve greater and greater autonomy as they practice communication skills, conflict-resolution, goal-setting and technical travel skills. The course ends with a service project, a seminar for parents and family meetings to make a new plan for your household. During these last sections of the course, students have a chance to look back on their course experiences with their families and, with instructors’ help, plan ways to carry the new insights and confidence found at Outward Bound forward with them.
To apply for this course call one of our expert Admission Advisers at 866-467-7651.
Course tuitions do not include our Application Fee or Transportation Fee.
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At-Risk Expeditions
If you are a parent looking for a program for your struggling teen or to learn more, please contact:
Address: 910 Jackson St., Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 866-467-7651
Fax: 720-497-2421
info@outwardbound.org
If you are a state or municipal agency seeking an alternative program for your committed delinquent youth and prevention programs please contact:
Address:177 Salem Court, Tallahassee, Florida 32301
Phone: 866-270-7986
Fax: 850-922-6721
discovery@outwardbound.org
Today is the day.
To make positive choices.
To embrace my potential.
To realize I can change my path.
