Academics

At Elements, we believe that everything we do should guide our clients back to the true purpose of the outdoors: helping our clients identify their maladaptive coping mechanisms and equipping them with adaptive skills to confront life’s hardships. As such, the 7 Challenges and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy hold the most crucial spots in a client’s day in the field.

Although our primary goals are emotional, psychological, and interpersonal education, traditional education is always important. Our objective is to get all our clients back into real life feeling empowered to take on the next challenges, not feeling hopeless and behind. The reality is that most of our clients learn more and work harder in their short time with us than they have in the years leading up to their arrival at Elements. That is why we partnered with Dorius Academy (Cognia accredited program) to hep our clients gain academic credit for the work the are already doing here.

Elements offers the following high school credits:

• Character Education: 0.50 credits
• Language Arts: 0.50 credits
• Health Education II: 0.50 credits
• Physical Education Student Elective: 0.50 credits
• Individual Lifetime Activities- outdoor recreation: 0.50 credits
• Advanced Individualized Lifetime Activities: 0.50 credits

Each client who earns at least partial credit will receive a transcript upon completion of the program.