Aaron Bacon News Today

At this time last year, when Aaron Bacon was 16, his young life was in tumult, though it was still a life.

Controversial "wilderness therapy programs" such as Utahs
North Star, intended for troubled kids, come under critical
scrutiny - and lawsuits - after several teenagers die while in
their care.

Each year, hundreds of Colorado teens end up in wilderness therapy programs—but should recent calls for reform give parents pause?

Parents are suing insurers to get them to cover wilderness therapy, an industry that’s itself trying to recover from a sordid past.

Each year, hundreds of Colorado teens end up in wilderness therapy programs—but should recent calls for reform give parents pause?

The headline in the paper morning made me recoil. Another young boy had died in a wilderness boot camp -- a victim, like many before him, of abuse at the

The headline in the paper morning made me recoil. Another young boy had died in a wilderness boot camp -- a victim, like many before him, of abuse at the

Jo Dee Ahmann saw a problem in her church: another faltering startup ministry. And she believed she knew the solution: coaching. As a life coach, she realized that she had the gifts to help. “I love the process of discovery—taking disjointed thoughts, feelings, emotions, and events, and talking through it all until a way forward emerges,” she said. “I could help give that ministry the structure it needs through coaching and walk with it until it’s successfully run.” Her skills had b...