Hero's Quest 4-Phase Approach

Phase 1: Struggling Teens Journey
Hero's Quest begins with our 32-day Struggling Teens Journey curriculum, which transitions participants to life at CanAdventure Education and stabilizes their areas of challenge. This phase of their journey maintains constant focus on personal growth and group cohesion, repeatedly reinforcing lessons learned through wilderness adventure. Through primary attention to personal and interpersonal issues, Struggling Teens Journey develops the team environment required to tackle some of the most challenging and inspirational destinations on Vancouver Island and preps participants for the challenges, growth, and progress that they will experience during the second phase of their Quest. Please click here for more information on our Struggling Teens Journey program. Participants that have already graduated from our Struggling Teens Journey program will enter the Hero's Quest Program in Phase 2.

Phase 2: Progress and Growth
After graduating from CanAdventure's Struggling Teens Journey program, Hero's Quest participants are guided in internalizing the lessons they learned during phase 1 and in incorporating positive values, discipline, respect, and self-esteem into daily life. During this phase participants focus on academics, community service, family workshops, and CanAdventure Education's Leaders in Training programming. This broader scope allows participants to continue working on their personal growth while re-starting progress toward high school gradation and a fulfilling career. All Hero's Quest participants receive a flexible individualized learning program that focuses on their assets and their unique areas of challenge. School work is supervised by our certified teachers and instructors, and our small group sizes allow for a highly individualized and flexible environment where each young person is given the support and time they need to progress at their own rate and in their own learning style.

Phase 3: Transformation
This phase of the Hero's Quest program integrates the components of the first two phases and introduces a long-term Personal, Educational, and Professional Growth Plan that participants establish and initiate in preparation for their return to mainstream life outside of CanAdventure Education. Participants take a leadership role in planning and accomplishing a major final project, usually a minimum 2-week extended group expedition and a solo. Students leaving or graduating from the program are recognized in a ceremony that honours the culmination of their quest and their transformation from adolescent to young adult. Family members and other significant community members are invited to participate in this ceremony.

Phase 4: Incorporation
Hero's Quest participants begin their fourth and final phase of their Quest upon leaving CanAdventure Education and returning to mainstream life. The Incorporation phase challenges Hero's Quest participants to honour their new skills, knowledge, and awareness by incorporating new habits and goals into their daily life beyond CanAdventure Education. Through regular phone calls, our staff provides ongoing support to participants as they progress with their Personal, Educational, and Professional growth plans. Families and participants are also invited to return periodically to participate in workshops geared toward a successful transition to life after CanAdventure Education.

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