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Deschutes Wilderness Therapy
Deschutes Wilderness Therapy, located in Bend, Oregon, is a nationally recognized outdoor behavioral healthcare and trauma-informed wilderness therapy program that provides teens and young adults immediate intervention and intensive mental health treatment. The wilderness experience allows students and their families to have the opportunity to heal their relationships and foster personal growth.
Deschutes Wilderness Therapy sets the standard in outdoor therapeutic programming. All students are empowered to improve their decision-making skills and build healthy and safe relationships. While working with the individual and the family, students at Deschutes are encouraged to focus on their strengths and use them to launch lasting change.
Deschutes Wilderness Therapy sets the standard in outdoor therapeutic programming. All students are empowered to improve their decision-making skills and build healthy and safe relationships. While working with the individual and the family, students at Deschutes are encouraged to focus on their strengths and use them to launch lasting change.
Purpose
Create Joy. Heal Generations.
Vision
Our Vision is to become the most respected, recognized, and valuable family behavioral healthcare company in the world. Our Big Hairy Audacious Goal is to take adolescent and young adult anxiety, depression and suicide from the all-time highs of today to all-time lows by 2028.
Additional Culture Details
Trauma Informed Care (TIC) is an intervention model that is dictated by the understanding that over stressing the brain will hinder effective intervention and stop long-term change. This model is based on an advanced understanding of the brain’s response to stress and specifically addresses innate survival responses and many other nervous system variables. A true TIC model involves all levels of care including training in stress responses for all line staff. At Deschutes Wilderness, there is an even stronger emphasis on trauma training for the clinical team who facilitate deep interventions to effectively manage stress in the field.
Values
- Empathy
- Uses empathy to connect with others, listens and attunes accurately to opinions and feelings of people, seeks to understand before being understood.
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