What is Eco-Therapy Adventure Camp?
Our mission and history
The vision of Eco-Therapy Adventure Camp was born in 2020 from two women who have worked with children and adolescents in therapeutic settings. Jayme Mahoney, LCFT, and myself, Tiffany Barry, LMSW. We saw the growing need for kids to reconnect with the outside as a way to build coping skills for the current world we live in. Children and teens today face unprecedented stress and uncertainty, and many are lacking the coping skills to manage it. Since the onset of Covid, we have seen rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide among our youth.
It is the mission of our camp to provide the healing powers of Nature, the challenges of adventure-based therapy, and the wisdom of eco-therapy practices to increase our children's ability to live well in today's world. We strive to increase our campers motivation, resilience, and self-esteem through a week of outdoor activities that are FUN and challenging in a small, safe, but social environment.
We believe that the skills the campers learn in this week can be taken home and utilized for years to come. By incorporating a love of Nature in our future generation, we are also instilling the importance of stewardship for the local environment so that kids may continue to enjoy the power of the Nature that exists in their own backyards.
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