Teen Boys

12 - 17 Male Identifying

Challenge Accepted is our flagship teenage boys' Bush Adventure Therapy Program.

It is held at several different locations throughout the year. This year, we will be facilitating four CA camps.

Ideally, campers will attend all 4 CA camps together to allow them to continuously develop and strengthen throughout the year and build a strong support system with other male teenagers and positive male role models.

This program has been running since 2019 and has had steady participation. We hope to invite and have the same young people come along to the trips throughout the year to give them a chance to get to know each other and work together in a bush setting.

Teen Girls

13 - 17 Female Identifying

Female Challenge Accepted, which runs twice a year, is searching for teenage females who want to challenge themselves, break out of their comfort zone, and spend some time in the outdoors.

The female teen program will be run entirely by female staff, from program planning to day-to-day camping. We aim to build a cohort of female participants who will become more comfortable outdoors and build intrapersonal skills along the way.

One of the program's goals is to have the same group of young people attend both weekends throughout the year to encourage and promote relationship building within each other and enable them to build a support system of female teenagers and female staff members.

The two weekends will be held in different environments to expose the young people to varied settings, enabling different therapeutic interventions.

Orientate

8 -12-Year-Old People

Orientate is our introduction to the Challenge Accepted Program

It is held on Camp Kiah’s large bush property, away from the main property, allowing the young people to be fully immersed in the natural environment.

Campers will spend two nights camping in tents, cooking food on the fire, engaging in bushcraft, orienteering, and other outdoor activities, and learning about being safe, all while having a new adventure they may not have experienced before.

This program will feed into the teen programs and allow young people to trial adventure-style camps before committing to an offsite camp.

One to one

8 - 17-Year-old People

The Challenge Accepted One-to-One program gives young people who attend one of Camp Kiah’s programs a chance to spend time outdoors with one of the staff members with whom they have a strong relationship. Young people in this program have an adventurous interest in the outdoors and a desire to engage in challenge-by-choice activities.

This program can be tailor-made for each young person each time they attend and uses the input and feedback of the participants to plan and run their experience. These experiences will generally begin with camping on the farm property in Wallan, where all other programs are held, to gauge the participant's ability. Then, they will be based offsite in a range of locations.

This program has the scope to travel further than other programs and gives participants a sense of disconnection with their life at home.

Trauma-informed and experienced staff matched with participant's needs.

All camping gear, bedding, food, and transport can be provided.

This program is available to all ages and genders.

All Challenge Accepted programs are run in conjunction with our therapeutic team and feedback is provided for each participant.

Potential participants must attend a Camp Kiah program prior to CA to allow staff to assess suitability.

Challenge Accepted is a specialty adventure therapy program for selected interested, responsible, and mature participants while in Camp Kiah programs.

Except for 1:1, the trips run over weekends, from Friday Morning to Sunday Afternoon. The participants must have a day off school or other responsibilities to attend the trips.

All camping gear, bedding, food, and transport can be provided.

Challenge Accepted’s Trauma-informed and experienced staff matched with participant's needs.