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Our Core Values define us as a program. We believe these values to be essential to our mission in
providing the best service to our participants and their families:
- We believe that optimism and joy are learned behaviors.
- We believe in real expeditions, in true wilderness, with a purpose and goal as part of the journey.
- We believe that a consistent mentoring relationship is important to promoting positive change in young people.
- We believe that a participant's basic needs must be met before emotional growth can take place.
- We believe that each day is filled with teachable opportunities.
- We believe in allowing participants to learn experientially.
- We believe in purposeful activities with a beginning and an end.
- We believe that by teaching resiliency participants will be able to surround themselves with positive resources
when they return home.
- We believe that by retaining qualified staff we will consistently deliver excellent service.
- We believe that by paying our staff professional wages we attract the best possible people and keep them.
- We believe in providing an extensive staff training program.
- We believe that change should not come through the desire to cease physical discomfort.
- We believe that change must be based in comprehension.
- We believe that food should never be used to modify behavior.
- We believe that a child's family can be the most significant resource that they have available to them. Every
effort is made to protect the sanctity of that resource.
- We believe that challenge and change are interrelated.
- We believe that the group is a tool to be used with caution.
- We believe that deprivation is not crucial to change.
- We believe the wilderness is something to be lived in and not just survived.
- We believe in using ‘real' language, not clinical or program jargon that makes no sense back home.
- We believe in building children up, not breaking them down.
- We believe in a small guide-to-participant ratio.
- We believe that we can help to realign a participant's sense of self to a more positive and productive image.
- We develop emotional skills in our participant's that give them tools and metaphors to ultimately help them handle
previously unmanageable situations.
- We believe in taking manageable risks in order to grow and learn.
- We believe in using the best equipment available to ensure a quality experience.
- We have an enduring belief in our participants. It's not in our nature to give up on anyone.
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