Is Pacific Quest Right For Your Family?
Pacific Quest is an internationally recognized wilderness therapy program for struggling teens that has become the benchmark for all other wilderness programs. We go beyond traditional wilderness therapy and teach sustainable life skills, not hiking and survival skills. Our proprietary therapeutic model is a ground breaking approach that establishes Pacific Quest as the clear leader in sustainable growth for troubled teens. Owned and operated by a veteran team of professionals with over 200 years of combined wilderness program experience, we offer a holistic, yet highly clinical approach to treatment that is individualized for each student. Our small exclusive program offers a multi-disciplinary curriculum which includes: Sustainable Gardening, Health and Wellness, Critical Thinking, Hawaiian History and Culture, Life Skills and Academics emphasizing the Sciences. Through experiential education, Pacific Quest provides a structured yet flexible wilderness therapy program that serves the individual needs of each student, cultivating a wilderness therapy experience with personal meaning and importance.
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Go Beyond Traditional Wilderness Therapy
Since 2004, Pacific Quest has offered a holistic and unique 
approach to wilderness therapy. Unlike traditional wilderness therapy programs, Pacific Quest replaces hiking and survival skills with gardening and sustainable life skills. Our approach to wilderness therapy is based on a model of structure, support and choice rather than one of coercion or punitive consequences. This allows for students to grow individually, at their own pace, with their own motivations. Our wilderness therapy programs operate on an 7-acre certified organic farm and a 3-acre historic retreat, both located on the Southern side of the Big Island of Hawaii known as the Ka’u region. Hawaii was chosen as the location for our wilderness program because of its safe climate and its inspiring nature. We provide an environment that allows for a true discovery process for our students; a place that is safe, structured, experiential and natural. But make no mistake, Pacific Quest is a highly clinical wilderness therapy program, and your child works with licensed professionals in both individual and group settings. Our clinical team carefully screens each and every candidate before admission.
Sustainable Growth
The mission of Pacific Quest is to provide individualized, personal, sustainable growth within a safe, structured, experiential and natural environment in a culture of unconditional support and personal responsibility. Our wilderness program model provides students an opportunity to view the working farm and sustainable agriculture as a mirror for life’s challenges and rewards. Living and caring for the organic farm creates concrete metaphors for our students as they cultivate their own health and happiness. Under the supervision of our Clinical Director, Pacific Quest counselors and licensed therapists seek to help the students identify with the root of their problems, to provide tools and resources to make steps to solve their problems, and to provide a foundation to enable each student to make healthy, positive choices in the future. We often accept the most clinically challenging and complicated cases, as we often succeed when other programs have not. We are passionate about our philosophy, our program, and our people- it shows in everything we do.
