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We offer NON-PROFIT outdoor therapy that restores self-worth, inspires change, and rebuilds family relationships.

 

Our approach honors one’s choices and is entirely free of force.

 

Scholarships are available.

 

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Current Needs:

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Can you help Izzy?

Sixteen year-old Isabella (Izzy) is struggling with depression, self-harm, and other serious concerns following her mom’s recent passing. Despite everything, she continues to do well in school, particularly in language…
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Help for Hayden

Hayden feels he’s no longer worthy of love and happiness in the wake of some recent choices and at-risk behavior. He’s been suicidal and increasingly self-destructive but also feels intense…
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Extra help for 16 year-old son?

Can you help some hardworking parents fund treatment for their child to overcome depression and suicidal ideation…and develop the confidence to pursue dreams of becoming a lawyer or social worker?…
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Outfit a Scholarship Recipient

Sponsor the outfitting fees for the child of a family seeking financial assistance. A donation of $3,500 covers the YoungWalker’s pack, including all gear, clothing, and weekly resupplies for an…
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Donate a Vehicle

Ready to upgrade your personal or commercial vehicle, RV, or motorcycle? Have a clunker gathering dust? Consider making it a tax-deductible gift to Anasazi. We can use large four-wheel-drive vehicles…
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Sponsor a Young Person’s Stay

Cover all or part of Anasazi’s life-changing treatment for a child or young adult. Anasazi’s strives to provide its services to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. We do…

Nature + Nurture

We offer NON-PROFIT outdoor therapy that restores self-worth, inspires change, and rebuilds family relationships.
Our approach honors one’s choices and is entirely free of force.
Scholarships are available.

Change starts with connection…not correction.

We help young people discover their greatness and families rebuild trust.

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Healing hearts and rebuilding trust via our non-profit, nurturing outdoor behavioral healthcare program

Anasazi’s world-renowned, licensed, and Joint Commission-accredited outdoor behavioral healthcare programs are ideal for adolescents (12-17) and adults (18+) struggling with depression, anxiety, self-image, defiance, family conflict, mental health, lack of motivation, mild mood disorders, drug and alcohol experimentation, internet addiction, entitlement issues, and other self-defeating behaviors.

Anasazi’s world-renowned, licensed, and Joint Commission-accredited outdoor behavioral healthcare programs are ideal for adolescents (12-17) and adults (18+) struggling with depression, anxiety, self-image, defiance, family conflict, mental health, lack of motivation, mild mood disorders, drug and alcohol experimentation, internet addiction, entitlement issues, and other self-defeating behaviors.

Anasazi Foundation is a licensed and accredited 501(c)(3) non-profit.

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Creating an Environment that Invites Change

Anasazi’s therapeutic wilderness program for teens provides 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 teens 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 experiential wilderness curriculum with top-quality clinical methods and trained therapists provides a powerful, synergistic intervention that motivates lasting change.

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Our Unique Therapeutic Approach

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 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, scholarships, and a comprehensive plan for each family, providing continued monthly support to all alumni and parent coaching.
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Anasazi program

Anasazi is a therapeutic and nature-based treatment program for adolescents ages 12-17 and adults 18+. Our residential treatment 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.

We also assist families with insurance coverage options and obtaining scholarships.

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Participants spend their time hiking and camping in the wilderness of Arizona while working with trained therapists…
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Therapeutic Approach

Anasazi Foundation programs employ a holistic, bio-psychosocial-spiritual approach to treatment that involves the development of individuals and families.

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Alumni

We aim to help participants keep their trail experiences & awakenings alive in their hearts after leaving the program…

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Free Consultation

Our admissions team is available to answer your questions about our program and how we can help.

ENROLLMENT

Before an applicant can be accepted for admission, the enrollment packet must be submitted and approved.

DONATE

More than half of the families participating at Anasazi do so with the help of scholarships made possible by generous donations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Anasazi Foundation’s offices are located in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. We operate the program, however, in the beautiful Arizona wilderness.

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 therapeutic wilderness program, each family receives a comprehensive aftercare plan that includes monthly phone contact though our Alumni Services department and seven weeks of 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 nature-based and confrontation-free 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.

Anasazi Foundation is a wilderness therapy program for youth at risk. The mission of Anasazi Foundation is to prepare parents and children to turn their hearts to one another, begin anew, and walk in harmony of the wilderness of the world.

The Anasazi Foundation offers outdoor therapy programs and behavioral healthcare programs designed for youth 12-17 years old. In addition to these programs, Anasazi offers intervention training for parents.

The Anasazi Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Program is a wilderness treatment program designed for youth 12-17 years old who are struggling with depression, anxiety, family conflict, substance abuse, and/or other emotional or behavioral concerns.

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