Anasazi Foundation

ANASAZI’s world-renowned, licensed, and Joint Commission-accredited outdoor behavioral health programs are ideal for adolescents (13-17) and young adults (18+) struggling with mental health, lack of motivation, defiance, mild mood disorders, drug and alcohol experimentation, depression, internet addiction, entitlement issues, and other self-defeating behaviors. ANASAZI’s world-renowned, licensed, and Joint Commission-accredited outdoor behavioral health programs are ideal for adolescents (13-17) and young adults (18+) struggling with mental health, lack of motivation, defiance, mild mood disorders, drug and alcohol experimentation, depression, internet addiction, entitlement issues, and other self-defeating behaviors. Anasazi’s therapeutic wilderness program for young adults  and troubled teens gives them an opportunity, through a primitive living experience and a philosophy that invites healing at the hands of nature, to effect a change of heart – a change in one’s whole way of walking in the world. This wilderness camp for troubled youth offers a unique therapeutic environment. Our outdoor therapy treatment program for teens provides a novel and somewhat foreign environment that requires adaptation and the learning of new skills. It challenges the existing norms, rules, and methods to which teens and parents have become accustomed. It also provides an environment free of the over-stimulation and distractions common to adolescent life and invites peaceful introspection. Anasazi utilizes the best of this change-promoting environment, without using the wilderness as a tool of manipulation or punishment. The combination of our unique and engaging experimental wilderness curriculum with top-quality clinical methods and trained therapists provides a powerful, synergistic intervention that motivates lasting change. ANASAZI endorses a positive psychology approach to intervention and adolescent treatment, instilling confidence and hope, believing that youth are capable of insight, and voluntarily deciding to make needed changes that will improve the quality of their lives. Our young adult outdoor behavioral treatment programs employ a therapeutic, bio-psychosocial-spiritual approach to treatment. This approach recognizes the influence of mind, body, heart, and spirit in the growth and development of individuals and families. Our goal is to help: We are dedicated to helping at-risk-youth and their families get the assistance they need. Therefore, we aid families with counseling, insurance coverage options, obtain available scholarships, and a comprehensive plan for each family, providing continued monthly support to all alumni and parental coaching. ANASAZI is a therapeutic outdoor behavioral treatment healthcare program and wilderness rehab for adolescents (ages 13-17) and young adults (18+). Our residential treatment for teens takes a comprehensive approach that is designed to promote a change of heart which often results in a lasting change in behavior. New admissions are accepted continually, year round, and scheduled by appointment. The accredited wilderness therapy program for young adults begins with a learning period during which clients participate in basic skills such as cooking, personal hygiene, first aid and taking care of equipment. In addition, they learn how to make their own trail gear, which includes a primitive backpack, fire set and rabbit stick. This wilderness therapy for teen treatment also teaches them to create fire using bow drill and build their own shelters, among other things. After completing the wilderness survival therapy, each family receives a comprehensive aftercare plan that includes monthly phone contact though our Alumni Services department and optional monthly parent coaching calls, which review program intervention principles and allow parents to discuss their application in specific circumstances. ANASAZI is not a boot camp – it is a wilderness program for youth. Participation in an ANASAZI program requires personal responsibility and accountability; however, no force, contrived experiences, manipulation, confrontation, point or level systems, or other behavioral modification techniques or models are employed. Caring staff walk the trail with the same food and gear as the YoungWalkers and patiently wait for opportunities to teach. Through this accredited wilderness therapy program, they will teach skills and the principles of unconditional love, agency, repentance, forgiveness, and restitution.  ANASAZI Foundation recognizes the difficulty parents face when seeking help for son or daughter in trouble. When parents’ efforts to intervene have had little or no effect, and home or community-based interventions have been unsuccessful, behavioral healthcare adventure therapy programs such as ANASAZI can help save a young life.   Yes. ANASAZI is one of the top rated wilderness therapy programs for young adults in the west coast. With the help of trained and licensed clinical professionals, ANASAZI’s family-focused intervention programs are recognized worldwide for their unique and caring approach to treatment.

Misty Rupe
5 Star
Life changing experience for our son and our family. Cannot recommend enough. Go for it!
Monday 11th October 2021

Kelli Oswald
5 Star
I love the ANASAZI Foundation so much! The memories continue to be a strength and blessing to me.
Tuesday 21st September 2021

Julie Keith
5 Star
Our 14 year old son spent 10 weeks at Anasazi this summer. Before he left, he had distanced himself from our family and wanted little to do with us spending most of his time in his room and preparing his own meals and eating by himself. He still has struggles but Anasazi definitely gave us our son back. Now he’s willing to engage with his family again. He came to a marching band concert for his sister this evening and sat next to me and shared his blanket with me. He played games with his dad today. He eats meals with us again. Not only that but Anasazi gave him confidence I hadn’t seen in him for a very long time. I’m so thankful for all the people at Anasazi who worked with and loved my son. They still continue to reach out to him and care about him. What an amazing program. I feel like they definitely helped connect my sons heart back to his family. Thank you Anasazi Foundation!
Monday 11th October 2021

Matthew Stanger
5 Star
Changed my life, changes everyone’s life. I saw miracles, Anasazi makes the world a better place.
Wednesday 22nd September 2021

Sam
1 Star
Most of the reviews on here are from parents and staff who don’t get the full Anasazi experience. As a person who went here it’s extremely dangerous. They provide little to no shelter other than two ponchos that you have to fashion into a tent, during rainstorms this is problematic and can cause hypothermia, one week while I was here my shelter was ripped down 3 times during one of the worst rainstorms I’ve ever seen, it rained sideways the wind was so hard, I was soaked to the bone in 30-40 degree weather all night waiting for the sun to rise so we can wait for another camp to bring us fire making equipment because everything we had was destroyed. I was so cold I could hardly feel cold anymore. If we didn’t have backup from another camp that survived the night we could have been in deep trouble. The same night a girls camp on a masa got flooded out and several girls got hypothermic shock and had to have their clothes cut off and be wrapped in emergency blankets and sent to the hospital this was told to me by a female worker. Guarantee the head office don’t tell you about that time when you’re thinking of sending your daughter here. They also provide very little food, they claim it’s about rationing but this isn’t the apocalypse, it’s hiking. I was 130 lbs at 15 years old and came back at 115 lbs. there is also serious bullying problems and issues within the camps, what can you expect when you throw a group of frustrated teenagers in the woods together. You also walk on the middle of the wilderness and not on trails or any form of safe path. One week we were hiking down a mountian through it’s dried river ravine and had to cross a narrow path, one side of the path was a tall cliff face to hardly hold on the other side was a cliff going about 70 feet down. My friend I was with since day one slipped and fell down the cliff till I couldn’t see him I thought he died for a moment, but miraculously caught a small rock hold with one hand and dangling with the other over a 70 foot drop. He was fortunate to be close enough to for a leader to grab him and pull him up. This program is truly unsafe and sending your child here is a risk you must be willing to take, it’s no guarantee they’ll trust you after sending them to a hellish experience like this. I recommend actually trying to understand and talking to your child more instead of shipping them to a cult founded program hoping they’ll come back a better person
Tuesday 22nd March 2022