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Journey Skills For Life
 

Adventure Therapy Services

Journey Skills For Life Internationally recognized as an innovative provider of wilderness and adventure-based programming within an outpatient setting, Journey is OMNI Youth Services’ wilderness therapy program. Under the guidance of licensed professional clinicians, adolescents and/or families are challenged in outdoor settings. During a Journey experience, the wilderness confronts youth and families with the natural consequences of their good and bad decisions.
  • CLICK HERE TO VIEW MORE JOURNEY PHOTOS!Outdoor Wilderness Therapy: Trips vary from a day-long rock climbing experience to a ten day whitewater rafting trip. Journey trip locations occur throughout North America and feature activities such as ice climbing, backpacking, rock climbing, coastal kayaking, and whitewater rafting.
On a Journey trip, adolescents learn to work with others, improve team leadership skills, develop trust, take appropriate risks, increase self-esteem, and have appropriate fun. These intense experiences allow youth to test his or her limits as well as encourage him/her to set new personal goals. At the end of the trip, the adolescent will experience a sense of accomplishment and achievement and learn to solve problems and apply these skills to their life situations.

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Our highly trained staff possess raining and certifications in counseling, wilderness travel and activities, first responder medicine and the use of experiential counseling within a wilderness setting. OMNI earned the Association for Experiential Education’s Organizational Member of the Year Award.

For more information contact John Conway, Coordinator of Experiential & Wilderness Therapy Services, 
at
847-353-1654 or jconway@omniyouth.org.


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