Since 1981, SUWS Adolescent and Youth Programs has specialized in helping troubled and defiant teens to overcome their behavioral and emotional problems. Operating in the rugged, beautiful Bennett Hills of southern Idaho, SUWS programs help young people to identify and work through internal conflicts and emotional obstacles that have kept them from responding to parental efforts, schools, and treatment. SUWS accepts boys and girls ages 11 to 17 and offers a 28-day minimum program. These are children who are inherently good and have the ability to be successful, but because of unhealthy misperceptions about themselves, they have limited access to their own abilities and strengths.
At SUWS, the combination of wilderness environment and experiential learning activities create the ideal therapeutic milieu in which to help students recognize and build upon their own sense of self-worth as they learn the value of helping others. The treatment professionals excel at addressing the underlying cause of negative, unhealthy behaviors and working through impasses brought about by internal struggles, rather than confronting outward behaviors only.