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Trails Carolina Asheville, NC Trails Carolina Offers Mentoring Advice For National Mentoring Month Contact: John Singleton Director of Business Development 828-974-1772 jsingleton@trailscarolina.com trailscarolina.com Trails Carolina, a wilderness therapy program for teens ages 10-17, believes great mentors can empower individuals to improve their lives, inspire hope in those who are struggling, and help people pass on wisdom to those who need it. At Trails Carolina, parent involvement is taken seriously into account. As a parent, being a positive mentor for your teen can help build and reinforce a bond between you and your child. Trails offers the following advice to ensure a positive mentorship experience:
As a therapeutic program that fosters growth in young people, former students come back to Trails to act as mentors for current students. "Former students come back for days, weeks, or even months to share their experiences before, during, and after their treatment. They discuss what brought them to this experience, what their experience at Trails was like and what wilderness treatment taught them," says Jason McKeown LMFT, CPE-I, Director of Family Services at Trails Carolina. In addition to mentoring current students, former students and parents can also mentor parents. These former students and parent mentors are usually willing to help in any way they can, speaking at parent workshops and on parent support calls. Trails has also incorporated a mentoring component within the programming internally. More senior, advanced level students who have gone through the program usually mentor newer students in the program. "One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it. When one of our more senior students is able to teach or mentor other students in the group, it helps inspire and create hope in the new students," comments McKeown. "It also reinforces for the advanced student how far they've come along in their program. Being able to be a living, breathing example of how someone has conquered a challenge or navigated an issue in their life can be extremely empowering to both students." Trails Carolina is a wilderness therapy program based just outside of Asheville, North Carolina that offers a multi-dimensional wilderness therapy model to troubled adolescents, ages 10-17. Trails capitalizes upon the profound effects of a student's wilderness experience, and then combines that experience with strong clinical assessments and therapy. © Copyright 2012 by Woodbury Reports, Inc. |