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The Story of My Life: Troubled Teens Write Autobiographies
Autobiographies and Parent Narratives: A vital Part of the Treatment Process An important aspect of the therapeutic process for students at RedCliff Ascent is the compilation of an autobiography. Students write a 40 page autobiography while in the program as … Continue reading
Thanksgiving at RedCliff Ascent
Holidays such as Thanksgiving will be a very different experience for a student at Redcliff Ascent. Instead of gathering at Grandma’s house for dinner with extended family, RCA students will spend the day with their group in a camp in … Continue reading
Where Do We Sleep? Wilderness Therapy at Work
To a RedCliff wilderness therapy staff member there are few things more invigorating than waking up in the wilderness. Whether it has rained, dumped snow through the night, or is a perfect fall morning, there is something special to us … Continue reading
Wilderness Therapy and True Grit
After four days of constant rain the temperature dropped and the rain turned to snow at our wilderness therapy camping spot. We had been hunkered under a rain tarp erected over our fire for days, with a cold wind blowing … Continue reading
A Struggling Teen’s Story of Alcohol Abuse
This is a story by a student who struggled with alcohol abuse. He left our program a few months ago. I keep in contact with him and he is doing really well still. He gave me permission to reprint this … Continue reading
Looking Back at the RedCliff Reunion
“I had a lot of apprehension beforehand,” Andrea Burgess admits. “But it turned out even better than I thought.” Burgess is the Executive Director at RedCliff Ascent, a wilderness therapy program for troubled teens. On April 7, the program hosted … Continue reading
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