Christmas Shopping as Clinical Assignment
Celebrating Holidays at Turning Winds Teen Treatment Center Family holidays are important—for kids and parents. Thanksgiving and Christmas are traditional opportunities to come together once a year and enjoy a meal as a family. Mental health issues and substance misuse can seriously disrupt this tradition. When your child needs help, such family events may need […]
Turning Winds Clients Get Ready For Another Service Trip
Turning Winds organizes international service trips abroad for our teen clients twice a year: after a successful trip to Morocco in the spring, this year’s second destination is Belize. The treatment team meticulously prepares the excursions offering a unique blend of travel, cultural immersion, leadership training, and adventure therapy. Destinations are vetted beforehand and sometimes […]
Celebrating Gratitude For Thanksgiving
At Turning Winds, our teenage clients typically stay many months in the program—frequently an entire year. “It can be long enough to really help young people,” says John Gordon, MD, Turning Winds’ medical director. “A lot of the kids here have been in other programs before that either were not long enough, or there was […]
Family Bonds: Healing Together at Turning Winds
Families come first at Turning Winds. Our treatment approach focuses on increasing the healthy independence of adolescents in our care while promoting and strengthening the family bonds, ensuring a harmonious and successful reintegration post-treatment. Family connection is one of the 12 character virtues taught in our program: students develop a greater appreciation for the strengths […]
Preparing for Panama: Teen Leadership and Adventure Therapy
Empowering Teenagers through Global Service Turning Winds organizes international service trips abroad for our teen clients twice a year: this November, the destination is Panama. The excursions offer a unique blend of travel, cultural immersion, leadership training, and adventure therapy. Additionally, these international trips provide invaluable opportunities for personal growth. These trips have become a big part […]
Halloween Fun is Part of Teen Therapy
Celebrating Holidays in Teen Treatment: A Turning Winds Approach Being in treatment doesn’t mean you have to miss out on all the holiday fun. At Turning Winds, teenage clients typically stay many months, often a whole year. That means they may not be home for Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, or Christmas. Or for Halloween! “In the summer, […]
When Difficulties Become Breakthroughs
The treatment program at Turning Winds is all about effecting positive change. Therapeutic approaches—many particular to the Turning Winds boarding school environment—include character education, health, and wellness of body and mind, outdoor experiential education, evidence-based clinical care, and academic success, along with continuously improving each aspect of our therapeutic program through measuring outcomes in each […]
Turning Winds is Always Improving
It’s all about finding out what works best. The Turning Winds difference is grounded in an innovative hybrid approach and our skilled, caring, and dedicated team working tirelessly to give our teenage clients the best care possible. We help teens rediscover themselves, and they leave treatment with renewed hope and a belief in their own […]
Helping Turning Winds Students Excel Academically
Turning Winds offers a high-quality academic experience for each of our teenage clients. Students enrolled at Turning Winds experience an individualized academic experience. Our data show that our students earn an average GPA of 3.5 while here, and in a 12-month time period our average student completes about 1.5-2 years of school while experiencing an […]
Team Spirit Rules Supreme at Turning Winds
Over the past two decades, Turning Winds has matured into a sophisticated program that blends the benefits of a wilderness program, a residential treatment center, and a boarding school. The Turning Winds difference is grounded in this unusual hybrid approach and our skilled, caring, and dedicated team working tirelessly to give our teenage clients the […]
