What ISPA is about:

ISPA is about the historical, current and future foundations of service provision to young people and their families. It is built on a belief that programs of all sizes, types and geographic locations should be evaluated and given credence not only because of their size, financial reach and static goals, but on competence, forward thinking, adaptability and unerring commitment to service to young people and families before all others. 

ISPA is Wilderness Programs

Adventure Based Programs providing wilderness experiences, creative adventure based programming and helping young people grow, heal and learn through wilderness therapy and the discovery of ones self and ones strengths and capabilities previously unknown or forgotten. Whether On a trek in Utah or on a Wagon Train in Arizona, ISPA members are focused on the child, the family and the treatment and education task at hand. Extreme competence and care in these activities are the watchwords. RedCliff Ascent, UT Mount Carmel Youth Ranch WY; Wilderness Treatment Center MT.

ISPA is about Residential Treatment Centers

(Grove School, CT) (Alpine Academy, UT) and Home-Based Residential Programs (Building Bridges, Inc., MT) where treatment, therapy and education are presented in a milieu of normalcy and understanding that individuals experience individual problems. The means to dealing with these problems is through not only competent professionals and solid therapy/academics, but by ensuring that ethics and integrity are incorporated into each activity, action, meeting and service with a central focus on the person. Their family, their referral source’s role, their therapist’s teacher’s and residential life mentor’s responsibilities and actions are student/client centered, attentive to time and progress and ending in an exit to the most beneficial and appropriate location, whether that be home, school, work or a step down program fitting the individual student/client’s needs and assets.

ISPA is about Young Adult – Transitional Programs

Meeting the real needs of emerging adults. By ensuring that young adults do not fit into a canned means of addressing this population, but targets and focuses on strength based platforms, innovative responses to unique problems and stressors. ISPA Young Adult Programs lift up young adults by showing them that they can stand up and stand alone if willing to make the effort and shore up any weak areas. Remembering the individual strength and resilience that exists in each human being allows the extra effort and the extra mile raise the road for these sometimes forgotten young people. Life Development Institute, AZ  New Lifestyles, VA  Dragonfly Transitions, OR.

ISPA is Boarding Schools

(The Oliverian School) that special place and environment that brings forth not only the best in academic excellence, but also the excellence of self and self-expression. A place where parents know their children are in experienced and competent hands. Where creativity, adventure programming, outdoor activities and coliseums of intellect are woven into a durable practical fabric that is powerful on its own, but when studied, becomes colorful, gleaming, stunning and geometric in its impact. Experience, competence, character, challenging, these words describe ISPA and our educational members.

ISPA is Therapeutic Boarding Schools

Providing an environment for young people who need to be not only challenged, taught and helped academically, clinically and residentially, but quite simply, valued for self and understood. ISPA schools and programs are student and family focused and work closely with referring professionals to ensure stable communications. Importantly also they ensure a true team exit for students that has the input of all professionals at hand. F.L. Chamberlain School, MA.

ISPA is Therapeutic Online High Schools

Therapeutic Online High Schools (Kaplan College Preparatory School) provide an opportunity for individuals in Therapeutic Schools and programs to receive accredited online instruction. The School or program may wish to use these services as a complete high school for students or on a part-time or supplemental basis.

It can be used to close the gap in programs between varying grade levels and abilities and offer exceptionally gifted students a means of not only receiving the level of education they are capable of and require, but to reach far beyond academically into advanced placement