I saw a movie when I was a kid that showed some youth being taken into the woods by a crazy counselor for the summer - it was called White Water Summer and it starred Sean Astin and Kevin Bacon…anyone else remember it? Anyway, it was the first time I heard of such a program, but wildness programs are a big thing now, especially for city kids or troubled youth. We have a camp near us that sort of does the same thing for trouble teens in a camp setting, but this directory of different types of wilderness programs for struggling teens shows this is more than just camp and camping. Programs like this teach how to survive, how to depend on others, how to trust, and how to get over issues that struggling teens have.





April 24th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Mary’s (DeMatteis) brother was a counselor at that Eckerd camp by you for a while. And they would go out in the woods and have to survive for days at a time off the land!
April 25th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I do remember that movie, it was great! I have a friend who went to one of those camps and he really learned a lot of valuable life lessons that stuck with him. I think it was a good choice overall.