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Title
Independent Small Programs Alliance - ISPA
Description
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 (Kids Quest) 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.
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.
