THREE RIVERS MONTANA

Three Rivers Montana is a place for teens and families to make positive changes in the way they live their lives. Examples include addicted students who have maintained sobriety, renewed relationships between parents and their children, students who have been failing school returning to school and getting good grades, and teens who have been empowered to stop associating with negative peers.  Our students consistently recognize the positives in their family and develop an awareness of who they are and how they affect others.  You may speak to families who have had a child enrolled in Three Rivers by calling admissions and asking for references.

Three Rivers Montana is committed to studying outcomes to ensure that the treatment we provide is effective.   Three Rivers is a member of the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Industry Council (OBHIC).  As a part of that organization, we will participate in all of their outcome studies.  The studies are conducted by Keith Russell, Ph.D.

In November 2001, the University of Idaho (Keith Russell, Ph.D.) published a study of client outcomes in eight participating outdoor behavioral healthcare programs. Treatment outcomes were evaluated through client reports and parent assessments of adolescent’s well-being at admission and discharge utilizing the Youth Outcome Questionnaire (Y-OQ).  Results of the study indicated that participation in OBH programs led to statistically significant reduction in the severity of behavioral and emotional symptoms.  You may visit the University of Idaho Wilderness Research Center at www.cnr.uidaho.edu/wrc to view results of current studies (Aug. 2002).

 Other studies of effectiveness of outdoor behavioral healthcare programs are:

• The Influence of Challenging Outdoor Recreation on Parent-Adolescent Communication – Brigham Young University
• A Longitudinal Assessment of Treatment Outcomes in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare – University of Idaho