Facility profile Montana

Alternative Youth Adventures

Also known as Aspen Youth Alternatives

Closed Boulder, Montana

Alternative Youth Adventures was a wilderness therapy in Boulder, Montana. It operated from 1994 to 2009.

About Alternative Youth Adventures

It closed in 2007.source It closed in 2009.source It was purchased by Youth Dynamics (Montana location now called Youth Dynamics Boulder).source It was run by Aspen Health Services (later Aspen Education Group).source 1, source 2 It was purchased by Community Education Center Corporation.source It was owned by former parent company Community Education Centers of New Jersey.source

Columbia, South Carolina location opened 1999.source Monrose, Colorado location opened 2001.source Loa, Utah location opened 1995.source It cost $250 per day in 2001.source Its address was 5300 Broad River Rd, Columbia, SC 29212.source

It was a member of NATSAP from 1999 to 2002.source

Also drawn on: source.

Timeline

From the records: who ran it and the deals that moved it, its names, and the deaths, incidents, inspection findings, lawsuits and news stories on file. Point at an event, or tap "More about this", for the details.

1994199920072008200919942009

  1. 1994

    1. Opened

      Opened in Boulder, Montana

  2. 1999

    1. New name

      Renamed Alternative Youth Adventures

      It had been Aspen Youth Alternatives.

  3. 2007

    1. Incident

      Death

      A teen died of a staph infection at Alternative Youth Adventures in 2007.

      Death

      source

    2. IncidentMay 2007

      Death

      A 15-year-old died of a staph infection on May 2, 2007 on an Alternative Youth Adventures outing in Montrose County, CO; Utah suspended AYA's license, AYA and...

      Death May 2007

      A 15-year-old died of a staph infection on May 2, 2007 on an Alternative Youth Adventures outing in Montrose County, CO; Utah suspended AYA's license, AYA and its former parent Community Education Centers, camp director James Omer, EMT Ben Askins and physician Keith Hooker were indicted in July 2007, and the mother sued in January 2009.

      source

    3. IncidentJuly 2007

      Closure order

      Colorado authorities shut the wilderness program down two months after the death; parent company Community Education Centers (NJ) said it was already closing it.

      Closure order July 2007

      source

    4. IncidentJuly 2007

      Criminal charge

      July 2007 indictments named AYA, former parent company Community Education Centers, camp director James Omer, EMT Ben Askins and physician Keith Hooker; by...

      Criminal charge July 2007

      July 2007 indictments named AYA, former parent company Community Education Centers, camp director James Omer, EMT Ben Askins and physician Keith Hooker; by December 2008 only CEC remained a criminal defendant.

      source

  4. 2008

    1. IncidentJuly 2008

      Criminal charge

      A grand jury charged medical adviser Keith Hooker (negligent homicide, child abuse), EMT Ben Askins (manslaughter), director Jim Omer and the corporate parent...

      Criminal charge July 2008

      A grand jury charged medical adviser Keith Hooker (negligent homicide, child abuse), EMT Ben Askins (manslaughter), director Jim Omer and the corporate parent Community Education Centers over a 15-year-old's 2007 death.

      source

  5. 2009

    1. Closed

      Closed

As Aspen Youth Alternatives

until 1999

Nothing on record is dated to these years yet.

As Alternative Youth Adventures

1999 to 2009 | Aspen Education Group

Incidents on record

  1. 2007 Death

    A teen died of a staph infection at Alternative Youth Adventures in 2007.source

  2. May 2007 Death

    A 15-year-old died of a staph infection on May 2, 2007 on an Alternative Youth Adventures outing in Montrose County, CO; Utah suspended AYA's license, AYA and its former parent Community Education Centers, camp director James Omer, EMT Ben Askins and physician Keith Hooker were indicted in July 2007, and the mother sued in January 2009.source 1, source 2

  3. July 2007 Closure order

    Colorado authorities shut the wilderness program down two months after the death; parent company Community Education Centers (NJ) said it was already closing it.source

  4. July 2007 Criminal charge

    July 2007 indictments named AYA, former parent company Community Education Centers, camp director James Omer, EMT Ben Askins and physician Keith Hooker; by December 2008 only CEC remained a criminal defendant.source

  5. Death

    HEAL reports at least one death of a child at Alternative Youth Adventures, which reportedly led authorities to close it.source

  6. July 2008 Criminal charge

    A grand jury charged medical adviser Keith Hooker (negligent homicide, child abuse), EMT Ben Askins (manslaughter), director Jim Omer and the corporate parent Community Education Centers over a 15-year-old's 2007 death.source

Staff

Administration

Notable staff

Connections on the network map

The companies, people and programs our research map ties to this program. Open it on the network map.

Names

  • Aspen Youth Alternatives Earlier name

Documents

Documents on file (4)
Woodbury Reports Mentions (4)

From the Unsilenced archive

190 documents about Alternative Youth Adventures that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their folders: Alternative Youth Adventures, Aspen Youth Alternatives.

Documents (190)

Wiki entries

Materials and links

Survivor posts and discussion

Other links

Record updated . Generated from the Kids Over Profits facility database. Suggest a correction