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About Pine River Institute

Pine River Institute is a residential treatment centre and outdoor leadership experience for youth 13 to 19 struggling with mental health issues, and specifically substance abuse. Their family lives are in uproar. Their personal and academic lives are in jeopardy. These are kids who have exhausted other interventions, and need a new, creative approach.

That new approach is available in a peaceful area outside of Toronto, where family-centered wilderness, therapeutic, and academic programs come together in a unique, holistic treatment and educational model. At Pine River, we address the self-destructive behaviour. We teach math skills and life skills side-by-side. We take all the time it takes to rebuild a life. And we remain supportive of our families long after the program ends.

A place where kids and families can start to feel whole again.

Anyone who has visited the school recently will no doubt have noticed the transformation of the front entrance way.  Several new garden beds have been dug and filled with a rainbow of perennial and annual flowers and shrubs. This is all part of the horticultural therapy programming here at Pine River Institute.  Each team of students has adopted a garden plot to plan, plant and tend.  In addition to being an exercise in teamwork, this enables students to draw on their sense of responsibility and their inner nurturing skills.

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