About Us
Whether you are a teacher, a mental health practitioner, or parent; we have created products, training, and support to help you help others. Life adventures supports individuals and families by offering education and consultation services to assure that they can thrive and flourish. Life Adventures for All supports programs, agencies, organizations, and individual practitioners to achieve their goals for improving the lives of their clients by providing training, consulting, and technical assistance to implement adventure therapy locally. Life Adventures for All supports programs, agencies, organizations, and practitioners to achieve their goals for improving the lives of their clients by providing training, consulting, and technical assistance to implement Adventure Therapy in your local community. Our strategy incorporates proven methodologies, extremely qualified personnel, and a highly responsive approach to managing deliverables. Current implementation science indicates that training alone is not sufficient; organizational buy-in, ongoing expert consultation, and timely technical assistance are all critical to change provider behavior and maintain quality programs with fidelity (Franks & Bory, 2015; Fixsen et al., 2001; Nadeem et al., 2013). Life Adventures For All offers a tremendous variety of services, all geared to maximize your client’s experience, through professional development designed to build the capacity of those in influential roles. Every item on the menu below is tailored to fit your needs.
Our goal is to do whatever it takes to help you meet your goals.
You’re in the driver’s seat – how can we help you?
Our Consultants!
Bobbi Beale, PsyD, launched Life Adventures for All with her AT colleagues specifically to make Adventure Therapy accessible to our most vulnerable youth and their families. Dr. Beale’s recent projects include increasing resiliency characteristics and reducing trauma symptoms (emotional and behavioral dysregulation) in youth identified for behavioral health services, specifically targeting youth involved with child protection. Children and youth who are involved with the child protection system encounter specific trauma including separation from and loss of parental figures, as well as the challenges related to placement stability, both educational and home, and permanency achievement. Bobbi also currently works with the Center for Innovative Practices at Case Western Reserve University, promoting evidence supported behavioral health services through training, consultation and technical assistance, primarily around home-based treatment, trauma and resilience. She is a clinical psychologist, serving at-risk youth and families in Ohio since 1991; first as a home-based therapist, then a program supervisor, program designer and division director. Bobbi has specialized in designing non-traditional therapy programs for high risk youth populations with trauma histories. Her evidence supported programs have utilized adventure therapy (AT) to increase youth skills and resiliency.
Rachel Freeman started her Adventure Therapy journey as a group facilitator for outpatient groups, day and residential camps, and a
trauma-informed day treatment program. Rachel quickly turned her skills toward team management and to keep all those programs staffed with well trained, team oriented workers! She ventured away from BH briefly, as an
office manager for an eye clinic, but elected to spend this year at home after she had twins. Currently she and Stephanie are experiencing (sleep deprived) adventures in parenting with 6 month old twins, Crosby and Sawyer! Life Adventures for All is happy to reunite Rachel with her Adventure past, and she now works part-time, between feeding, changing and napping, as our virtual office
Jason Angione, MS is currently C&A’s Program Manager of the Trauma Informed Day Treatment Program and Training Coordinator, has been a practicing therapist at Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health, a community mental health center in Stark County, since 2001. He has served clients and the community throughout the years by providing mental health services such as individual, group, Adventure therapies and consultation. Jason started his career learning the ins and outs of Adventure therapy, its theory and practice, and assisting in the development and implementation of an extensive group therapy and camp curricula based in Adventure Therapy…and loving every minute of it! He has also served as an agency trainer on such topics as Behavioral Interventions and Remediation Techniques, Normal Human Growth and Development, Psychopathology, Violence Prevention and now Electronic Health Records.
