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Stories from the Field: Mental Health and the Outdoors

Apr 30, 2019

Bryan Delaney, Program director at SUWS of the Carolinas, has been working in the outdoors with adolescents since he was a young man. Much of his early outdoor training was in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and he would go onto become an Eagle Scout as a teen.  In college he worked for several years at the BSA's...


Apr 29, 2019

Paul Wolf is the Director of the Outdoor Leadership and Wilderness Therapy Program at Southwestern Community College located in Sylva, North Carolina. This program is the only one in the nation that provides a certificate in wilderness therapy for those interested in working as field staff. Paul helped developed the...


Apr 22, 2019

Bill Brown is the Co-founder and Family Services Director of Confluence which is a wilderness therapy program for young adults located in Thetford Center, Vermont.  Bill and his brother, Patrick, founded the program in 2016 to be a hybrid wilderness program with a focus only on emerging adults (age 18-28).

Bill shares...


Apr 9, 2019

Robert Trout is the founder and director of The Experiential Healing Institute which is an organization that provides family support before, during and after treatment when a family member is in a wilderness therapy program.  Robert was a student in a wilderness program as a teen and went onto work as a clinician in...