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Stories from the Field: Mental Health and the Outdoors

Feb 27, 2019

Reid Treadaway, Co-founder and Admissions Director of BlueFire Wilderness Therapy, started working in the wilderness therapy field in 1996 at the Ascent Program, in Idaho, as a field guide.  After several years he moved onto being a admissions person and eventually would move to North Carolina in 2001 to...


Feb 25, 2019

Jesse Quam, educational consultant and clinical social worker, started working in the wilderness therapy field after landing a job at Aspen Achievement Academy as a field instructor in 1996.  Jesse shares stories about his upbringing in which his father was a pastor and the family traveled all over the country...


Feb 17, 2019

Dr. Mike Gass is a Professor in the Outdoor Education Program in the Department of Kinesiology at University of New Hampshire as well as the Director of the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Center. 

Mike shares his journey of being recruited to play college football at St. Olaf College, in Minnesota, to becoming one of...


Feb 12, 2019

Misty Blakesley is a Program Manager at The Mountain Center (previously called the Santa Fe Mountain Center) a non-profit community based educational and therapeutic organization that, since 1979, has been dedicated to promoting personal discovery and social change among youth, families and groups through the use...