What We Do · Why Wilderness Programs · Who Can Benefit · Why Crossings Wilderness Expeditions
- Experienced and mature staff.
- Team approach to working with your child includes overall
clinical supervision from one of our Master Level Counselors.
- Our remote wilderness settings minimize runaways, physically
challenge clients, build self reliance.
- Flexible individualized treatment planning.
- More instruction provided than other wilderness treatment
programs, most residential programs, and, many hospitals.
- We use the wilderness to increase self-reliance and self-esteem,
and to actively disrupt negative peer influence.
- Many health insurance plans may pay part of the cost of this
program because of its therapeutic emphasis.
- We offer insightful assessment, excellent intensive short-term
treatment, and preparation for further treatment and schooling.
Wrangell Community Services is a recognized Community Mental Health
Center by the State of Alaska and as such we are an authorized
Medicaid provider. We can assist you in working with your provider.
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"I feel like the hard time in Crossings made me stronger. I talked to the staff about things that
I‘ve never told anybody and I was hard for me but they make feel comfortable. I got certain
about myself and strong." - 15 year old participant
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