Anasazi Foundation

1424 South Stapley Drive
Mesa, AZ 85204

Anasazi Foundation AZ 85204

About Anasazi Foundation

Located in Mesa, Arizona, Anasazi Foundation offers mental health treatment through their outdoor behavioral health program for youth age 12 - 17. They are considered a residential program that functions off-site in nature.

Anasazi Foundation is a world-renowned outdoor behavioral health program, and its services include:

This program is for adolescents struggling with mental health issues and drug and alcohol experimentation. Their program also addresses lack of motivation, defiance, mild mood disorders, depression, internet addiction, entitlement issues, and other self-defeating behaviors.

Participants spend an average of 50 days in the wilderness of Arizona hiking and camping while learning new skills and technologies for living a life aligned mind, body, and spirit.

Latest Reviews

Quinn Berube
2 weeks ago on Google
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Karen Marchetti
5 months ago on Google
5
Our family first became involved with Anasazi in 2003 when my daughter became a Young Walker. She was an emergency admission. The staff was wonderful in a very stressful situation, and did a lot of things to help things go right. Once she was admitted, we were very impressed with the support that we got as parents, and the patience with which they handled things, since she can be pretty challenging. She made very good progress there, more so than we had seen up until that point from other programs we tried.We also were involved with after-care. I decided to become a volunteer there, which I did for many years, and became intimately familiar with the background processes that are involved, and was always very impressed with how well thought out it was, how much attention was paid to safety, and the level of training provided to the staff. It is not a military style, boot camp, forceful environment. It's a love and respect based program based on choice and agency, inviting the participant to make better choices, not forcing them.I would recommend them without reservation to anyone who feels they are looking for a safe place to intervene in their young person's behavioral challenges.
laura Blum
5 months ago on Google
5
Unique approach- the focus is walking forward . Trail Walkers and Staff are very genuine and treat the youth in their care with kindness and always looking to build upon their seeds of greatness . Many of the trail guides attended this program as a troubled teen in their youth- which was a testament to me that it was a quality program that participants found helpful in moving forward with their life- so they now want to help someone else do the same.

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Accepted Insurance

Anasazi Foundation works with several private insurance providers and also accepts private payments when possible, please contact to verify your specific insurance provider.

Other Forms of Payment

Private insurance refers to any kind of healthcare coverage that isn't from the state or federal government. This includes individual and family plans offered by an employer or purchased from the Insurance Marketplace. Every plan will have different requirements and out of pocket costs so be sure to get the full details before you start treatment.

Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.

Financial aid can take many forms. Centers may have grants or scholarships available to clients who meet eligibility requirements. Programs that receive SAMHSA grants may have financial aid available for those who need treatment as well. Grants and scholarships can help you pai for treatment without having to repay.

Military members, veterans, and eligible dependents have access to specific insurance programs that help them get the care they need. TRICARE and VA insurance can help you access low cost or no cost addiction and mental health treatment. Programs that accept military insurance often have targeted treatment focused on the unique challenges military members, veterans, and their families face.

Addiction Treatments

Levels of Care

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Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.

Treatments

The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. Recovery and Maintenance are usually based on 12 step programs and AA meetings.

Drug rehab in Arizona is the process of treating individuals who are dependent on a particular addictive drug. Because addiction is complex, this treatment typically includes a variety of interventions that address the many physical and emotional issues involved.

Many of those suffering from addiction also suffer from mental or emotional illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, or anxiety disorders. Rehab and other substance abuse facilities treating those with a dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder administer psychiatric treatment to address the person's mental health issue in addition to drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

A combined mental health and substance abuse rehab has the staff and resources available to handle individuals with both mental health and substance abuse issues. It can be challenging to determine where a specific symptom stems from (a mental health issue or an issue related to substance abuse), so mental health and substance abuse professionals are helpful in detangling symptoms and keeping treatment on track.

Opioid rehabs specialize in supporting those recovering from opioid addiction. They treat those suffering from addiction to illegal opioids like heroin, as well as prescription drugs like oxycodone. These centers typically combine both physical as well as mental and emotional support to help stop addiction. Physical support often includes medical detox and subsequent medical support (including medication), and mental support includes in-depth therapy to address the underlying causes of addiction.

Programs

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Teen Program
Teen programs are designed to address the unique pressures teens face, pressures that can drive them to experiment with dangerous, addictive substances. They need programs that meet them exactly where they are and give them tools for long-term recovery. Therapy can help teenagers understand and work through underlying issues so they can reclaim the life ahead of them.
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Adult Program
Adult rehab programs include therapies tailored to each client's specific needs, goals, and recovery progress. They are tailored to the specific challenges adult clients may face, including family and work pressures and commitments. From inpatient and residential treatment to various levels of outpatient services, there are many options available. Some facilities also help adults work through co-occurring conditions, like anxiety, that can accompany addiction.
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Program For Men
Men face specific challenges and concerns when seeking addiction treatment. Gender-specific recovery programs help them tackle these issues head-on in an environment that's focused, targeted, and distraction-free. It also gives them the opportunity to connect with and learn from other men who have been through a similar journey and can offer support for the next step.
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Program For Women
Rehabs for women provide a safe, nurturing space for female clients to heal. These treatment programs consider the specific obstacles that women can face during recovery and place a special emphasis on mental, social, physical, and reproductive health. They explore how each woman's experience has shaped the trajectory of their substance use, addressing issues such as sexual abuse and past trauma.
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Young Adult Program
Young adulthood can be an exciting, yet difficult, time of transition. Individuals in their late teens to mid-20s face unique stressors related to school, jobs, families, and social circles, which can lead to a rise in substance use. Rehab centers with dedicated young adult programs will include activities and amenities that cater to this age group, with an emphasis on specialized counseling, peer socialization, and ongoing aftercare.

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder.

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.

Whether a marriage or other committed relationship, an intimate partnership is one of the most important aspects of a person's life. Drug and alcohol addiction affects both members of a couple in deep and meaningful ways, as does rehab and recovery. Couples therapy and other couples-focused treatment programs are significant parts of exploring triggers of addiction, as well as learning how to build healthy patterns to support ongoing sobriety.

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Accreditations

State Licenses are permits issued by government agencies that allow rehab organizations to conduct business legally within a certain geographical area. Typically, the kind of program a rehab facility offers, along with its physical location, determines which licenses are required to operate legally.

State License: Arizona

The Joint Commission, formerly known as JCAHO, is a nonprofit organization that accredits rehab organizations and programs. Founded in 1951, the Joint Commision's mission is to improve the quality of patient care and demonstrating the quality of patient care.

Joint Commission Accreditation: Yes

Contact Information

Phone icon (480) 892-7403
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1424 South Stapley Drive
Mesa, AZ 85204

Edited by:
Quentin Blount

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Thanks to this place my life has changed forever, I love every minute I work with these people, the program is very well structured to meet the needs of adolescents, this is a wonderful program to strengthen family relationships. Thanks to the experience that I lived in this ... Read More

Reviewed on 2/19/2019
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4.6 (378 reviews)
Quinn Berube
2 weeks ago
1

Karen Marchetti
5 months ago
5

Our family first became involved with Anasazi in 2003 when my daughter became a Young Walker. She was an emergency admission. The staff was wonderful in a very stressful situation, and did a lot of things to help things go right. Once she was admitted, we were very impressed with the support that we got as parents, and the patience with which they handled things, since she can be pretty challenging. She made very good progress there, more so than we had seen up until that point from other programs we tried.We also were involved with after-care. I decided to become a volunteer there, which I did for many years, and became intimately familiar with the background processes that are involved, and was always very impressed with how well thought out it was, how much attention was paid to safety, and the level of training provided to the staff. It is not a military style, boot camp, forceful environment. It's a love and respect based program based on choice and agency, inviting the participant to make better choices, not forcing them.I would recommend them without reservation to anyone who feels they are looking for a safe place to intervene in their young person's behavioral challenges.

laura Blum
5 months ago
5

Unique approach- the focus is walking forward . Trail Walkers and Staff are very genuine and treat the youth in their care with kindness and always looking to build upon their seeds of greatness . Many of the trail guides attended this program as a troubled teen in their youth- which was a testament to me that it was a quality program that participants found helpful in moving forward with their life- so they now want to help someone else do the same.

megan downes
5 months ago
1

Great place if you hate your children and are a awful human being

Alec Panagakis
6 months ago
5

The 62 days that I spent in Anasazi were some of the hardest and greatest days of my life. Never have I felt more alive and connected with nature than during the start of my addiction recovery at Anasazi. At first, I hated my parents and I hated wilderness. Most people look at wilderness programs as a punishment that abusive parents bestow, but for my loving parents who almost lost their son, it was the hardest decision they have ever had to make. I never had a senior year of high school. For me, traditional rehab and conventional mental health centers were not going to help me in the slightest. Anasazi was the only program I have ever gone through that has had a real lasting impact on me. It has made me a stronger and better person. The connections I made with the other kids and the staff, as well as the real experiences I have had in nature are irreplaceable. I almost didn t want to leave! A lot of people who have gone through this program want to come back as staff members because of how much they ended up loving it. Learning to cook, making fire from sticks, sleeping under the stars, and having no real-world responsibilities besides hiking is something I fantasize about re-living all the time. I could not recommend this program enough to any parent who doesn t know what to do with their child. Although I didn t write a letter to my parents for over a month, the feelings I felt when I ran to them at family camp are still strong in my memory 3 years later. I was so excited to tell them about everything I had learned and all of the surprises I had in store for them that I had saved for family camp. Drugs weren t in my mind at all when I left. I was just excited to go to Wendy s for my first time. I still keep in contact with the boys I went to Anasazi with. I m still in contact with the program to this day. Anasazi will always be a part of me and I thank them for the experience I was lucky enough to receive.

cheetos
6 months ago
5

at first I wasn t the most open to it and I was afraid and scared and angry at my parents but I was paired with this other boy Jacob and he told me bluntly but genuinely he said as long as your out here might as well make the most of it and at first that didn t resonate with me but I my first day into EARTHBAND was at first a lil intimidating but a few weeks in I started to grow connections and relationships with the kids and we all became a family of sorts , we talked about many things as far as to life , family , friends , food lol and so many other things around a nice warm fire .. and cooking food laughing is one of the best vibes ever , now the hiking is a mission I will not lie to you .. you have to be prepared and hydrated and well fed the nights before and you have to have good camp etiquette and manners. Trust me it is horrible and very stressful and out of place at first .. I still remember my first day every single day and I look back on it and laugh because my progress from there to where I m at now has exponentially increased and I m grateful for everything that happened

Kaleb Hill
6 months ago
5

This place was my turning around point for my life. I had just gone through a divorce and this place helped me get back on my feet and realize that there was so much in life to live for!! It s run by great people and I ll forever be grateful to them for the time I got to spend there. If anyone has seen negative reviews, it s from a bunch of angry kids who didn t want to get their lives together. This place truly will help those who go through this program.

josh barker
7 months ago
1

Save your money and your kid by avoiding this place.

Amanda Tolbert
7 months ago
5

ANASAZI was the best decision of my life! I was struggling with a lot during that time of my life..depression, anxiety, substance abuse, toxic relationship and tried everything from outpatient groups to online groups to individual therapy, etc. and this place was the only place that turned my heart in the right direction. I got back onto the path I wanted to for myself and found who I was. My family s hearts were also changed thanks to Anasazi and the loving people there. They work with everyone in the household not just the ones going out to the trail and they truly care. It s an amazing organization and I did not know it would change my life this much. It s been 4 years and I still talk to almost everyone I knew there! It s a family. I was at rock bottom and was willing to go and I think that if you can let your child/young adult make that decision on their own it will benefit their walking in an amazing way! Even if they can t choose for themselves my parents had a hard time thinking I would be out in the forest for 2 months but it was the best thing they could ve done for me! I was safe, loved, heard, and was taught some amazing stuff! My mother and I both have a podcast and my they were the first ones Anasazi made so please go listen to it! Mine is called Finding a heart a peace || A Young Walker s Journey on the Trail. I love my Anasazi family <3 and will forever support them!

Andrew Rowe
7 months ago
5

As someone who has been through the Anasazi program, I highly recommend it. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life and taught me so much about myself. One of the biggest things I ve taken away from the trail is being able to sit with discomfort. There are a lot of uncomfortable experiences on the trail like struggling to start a fire or not having things that you are used to like a bed or a warm shower. However, each of these are opportunities to build resilience and grit. Anasazi has changed my perspective on the world and the way I interact with it in ways I would ve never thought possible. It has helped me become closer with myself and for once in my life, I ve finally felt comfortable in my own skin- and I know that even when I don t, it s not something that I should push away or try to ignore, rather embrace and allow myself to experience fully. A final thing I think is worth noting is that the trail also helped me realize that everything I need to be happy and healthy comes from inside.

Austin Foulger
7 months ago
5

I was a youngwalker back in 2014. The program saved my life. It significantly improved my relationship with my family, my creator, and myself. I can t understate how grateful I was to be able to reconnect to that which makes us whole. Nature is the greatest teacher. If you listen to it and keep an open mind, it will humble you. I later came back in my twenties to work for Anasazi and it was, and is, such a blessed experience. We are changing lives and bringing hearts homeward. These are some of the best humans on earth. If you are reading this, and if you are still on the fence about whether or not to pull the trigger on our program. I implore you to take a leap of faith and use your gift of choice. All the love in the world to my brothers and sisters. <> Heartfire Guided By The Stars

Joseph McDonough
7 months ago
5

Best program ever, they helped reunite me with my parents in a way that I thought could never happen again! Anasazi helped me learn so much about myself and how much I meant to the world. Thank you Anasazi!

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