Drug Rehab at AVW

Ashley Valley Wilderness offers a much more effective alternative to traditional drug and and alcohol treatment centers.  Young adults are placed in a positive outdoor wilderness setting with peers that are also going through the same process of overcoming drug and alcohol addiction.

Students support one another by working through their issues daily and participating in physical activities such as hiking, learning specific outdoor wilderness skills, and  participating in a daily support group which is often led by staff and students.  Students are not bound to an indoor setting, as in most traditional treatment centers, and do not therapize all day long about their drug and alcohol addiction.  Young adults take a active and positive approach as they able to work through their addiction and learn specific skills that will help them manage their addictions upon returning home.  

Each young adult is assigned a licensed therapist that has experience in drug and alcohol addiction.  The therapist works with the treatment team that includes Field Staff, Clinical Director, Field Director and  all others working directly with the student to develop a treatment plan to help each young adult work through their addiction.  Young adults are also placed with peers from all across the United States and are not building friendships with peers from their home area who are recovering from drug addiction.   

The Ashley Valley Wilderness program is 84 days long, which provides an opportunity for a young adult to go from the detoxification process through the planning  stages to their next step in life.  Our success rate is much higher due to the length of stay, and individualized treatment.