boarding school/therapeutic recommendation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were just quoted $700/day.

What school?

[Anonymous]

Recommend you join the WTRS: Wilderness Therapy and Residential Treatment Search Support Facebook Group. Very helpful…lots of good recommendations and resources.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We were just quoted $700/day.

Precovid the program I sent my son to was $650 per day. I was able to negotiate it down.

for 9 months/year, that's $175K. That's very expensive.

Yeah it sucks. But it helped. Not sure where we’d be if we hadn’t gone that route.

Holy. How were you able to fund this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Recommend you join the WTRS: Wilderness Therapy and Residential Treatment Search Support Facebook Group. Very helpful…lots of good recommendations and resources.

Please be very careful with wilderness programs. They are often unregulated and not for kids with mental health problems. Find a good therapist or partial host program, or a good therapeutic school like the Glenholme school in Connecticut.

[Anonymous]

The WTRS group will help you, as will a seasoned educational consultant. There are MANY excellent wilderness programs. Just need to know where to go...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were just quoted $700/day.

Precovid the program I sent my son to was $650 per day. I was able to negotiate it down.

for 9 months/year, that's $175K. That's very expensive.

Yeah it sucks. But it helped. Not sure where we’d be if we hadn’t gone that route.

Holy. How were you able to fund this?

For a little while insurance paid. And then we paid out of pocket. We were lucky to have a healthy savings account at that time. Also we had to do it twice. If we hadbf had savings I would have borrowed from retirement.

[Anonymous]

Holy, how did you file insurance for this? We have excellent insurance but not sure how to go about it and what we need to ask for to submit.

[Anonymous]

The program should be able to give you a superbill for the therapeutic portion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy, how did you file insurance for this? We have excellent insurance but not sure how to go about it and what we need to ask for to submit.

It depends on your insurance. Mine paid a per diem so the facility submitted it and got reimbursed directly. I didn’t have a copay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Recommend you join the WTRS: Wilderness Therapy and Residential Treatment Search Support Facebook Group. Very helpful…lots of good recommendations and resources.

Please be very careful with wilderness programs. They are often unregulated and not for kids with mental health problems. Find a good therapist or partial host program, or a good therapeutic school like the Glenholme school in Connecticut.

Most therapeutic boarding schools require wilderness therapy first. Full RTCs (residential treatment centers) that are more kicked down with shorter, 90-day stays, May not require that because kids are more restricted. Therapeutic Boarding Schools (TBS) are falling out of fashion because parents can’t afford the typical 1-2 year stays. It’s unfortunate, because they are the appropriate option for kids who don’t really fit in a full RTC where the academic piece gets less attention.