Ignite Adulthood offers a transformative, student-centered growth experience that combines skill building, clinical services, education, service-learning, adventure programming, community living, and family programming.
Key Features of the Ignite Adulthood Program
Holistic and Strength-Based Approach
Ignite Adulthood is a nature-based therapeutic program that integrates a strength-based approach, supporting young adults through personalized therapy and experiential learning.
Ignite Adulthood promotes critical thinking through psychoeducational sessions, decision-making exercises, and outdoor education, which provides students with practical knowledge.
The program fosters self-regulation and overall functioning skills, ensuring that participants develop resilience, emotional intelligence, lasting personal growth and healthy tech use.
Connection and Community
Participants join a small, nurturing community that emphasizes connection—both with peers and with nature.
The program's culture fosters a supportive, collaborative environment where each individual’s journey is valued, and their unique needs are addressed.
Regular group sessions allow participants to build supportive, trusting relationships with peers, mentors, and therapists.
Support for Families
Ignite Adulthood includes up to four clinical touch points per week (two weekly groups, parent coach call and treatment planning call), ensuring that families remain an integral part of the therapeutic process.
Weekly family coaching sessions help parents understand how to support their young adult’s growth and provide tools for strengthening family relationships.
Lifelong Learning
Ignite Adulthood’s educational curriculum includes Social Emotional Learning and Outdoor Education, ensuring a strong academic foundation while also focusing on personal and social development.
The program promotes continuous learning, fostering lifelong education and personal growth that extends beyond the classroom.
2 individual and 2 group sessions each week
Therapeutic Curriculum
The therapeutic curriculum includes at least 2 individual and 2 group sessions each week, facilitated by a licensed therapist, with a focus on mindfulness, social skills, leadership, healthy technology use, and more.
Psychoeducational and skill-building groups are tailored to each student’s clinical needs and designed to foster long-term development and well-being. The program helps students develop essential life skills such as healthy communication, conflict resolution, goal setting, time management, and leadership development.
Students learn to navigate real-life challenges, build social skills, and enhance emotional regulation through structured therapeutic interventions.
Academic Curriculum
Academic offerings include Social Emotional Learning and Outdoor Education, which offer a unique way to explore social dynamics and interpersonal communication through hands-on activities.
Students also gain practical academic skills such as study skills and goal-setting techniques, helping them prepare for future academic and professional challenges.
Preparing for Next Steps
The Ignite Adulthood program prepares students for independent adulthood by focusing on next steps from adolescence to young adulthood.
With therapeutic support, participants engage in an exploration of interests, life goals, academic planning, and practical skill-building that prepares them for success after the program.
By participating in Ignite Adulthood, young adults are provided with a comprehensive support system that prepares them for life’s next stages, helps them build lasting skills, and ensures they leave the program with a strong sense of confidence, resilience, and direction.
Things of note:
Weekly Schedule
Monday-Wednesday
are therapy and academic activities
Thursday-Friday
are community service, equine-assisted therapy, and science classes
Saturday and Sundays
are fun outdoor and relaxing nature-based activities