Facility profile Colorado

Trailhead Wilderness School

Formerly Monarch Center for Family Healing, Trailside Schoolsource

Closed Georgetown, Colorado

Trailhead Wilderness School was a wilderness therapy in Georgetown, Colorado.

About Trailhead Wilderness School

It was founded by David Ventimiglia (Founder/Exec. Director).source

Not licensed with the Colorado Mental Health Board as a treatment program; changed names to SolTribe and licensed only as an LLC.source

Survivor testimony

What people who lived or worked here say happened. Survivors' own words are published with their permission; forum accounts are what was posted publicly and are reported as claims, not findings.

Reported on survivor forums

Incidents on record

  1. April 1995 License action

    Colorado Professional Counselors board issued Duane F. Mullner a Letter of Admonition.source

  2. November 2008 Abuse

    A 2008 Westword article reported a student's account of poor conditions in the field: no toilet paper, a lost spoon replaced by a stick, and bleach-treated water leading to severe diarrhea.source

Videos

Teenager außer Kontrolle 2010 Folge 1 Ausschnitt (2010-03-29) Watch on YouTube

Staff

Administration

  • David Ventimiglia

    Former Head, Director, Executive Director/Founder, Founder/Exec. Director (2006-2020)source

Notable staff

  • Ana Huss

    Former Director of Family Servicessource

  • Annette Lubchenco Donaghy

    Former "Elder"source

    Elsewhere in the industry

    • Outward Bound Employee

  • Chris Malanga

    Former Admissionssource

  • Duane F. Mullner

    Former "Elder"source

  • Duey Freeman

    Former "Elder"source

  • Henry Drake

    Former Field Therapistsource

  • Jeremy Way

    Former Field Instructorsource

  • Jonathan "Badger" Mitchell

    Former Field Therapistsource

    Elsewhere in the industry

  • Jonathan Schmidt

    Former Field Instructorsource

  • Josh Nacht

    Former Field Therapistsource

  • Kaitlyn Hyser

    Former Field Supervisorsource

  • Kerry Borcherding

    Former Field Therapistsource

  • Lori Ventimiglia

    Former David's Wife/Project Coordinatorsource

  • Martha McClure

    Former Clinical Directorsource

  • Megan Henry

    Former Office Managersource

  • Rachel Griswold

    Former Field Instructorsource

  • Raya Cooper

    Former Field Instructorsource

  • Sarah Lukens

    Former Field Instructorsource

  • Shawn Perkin

    Former Field Therapistsource

    Elsewhere in the industry

    • unnamed "treatment" and wilderness programs Employee

  • Victoria Story

    Former "Elder"source

Connections on the network map

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Names

  • Monarch Center for Family Healing Earlier name

Documents

Documents on file (2)
Woodbury Reports Mentions (1)

From the Unsilenced archive

12 documents about Trailhead Wilderness School that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their folders: Monarch Center for Family Healing - SolTribe - Trailhead Wilderness, Trailhead Wilderness School.

From SCIAD NET

5 documents about Trailhead Wilderness School that Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. SCIAD NET keeps them on Google Drive, where they open.

Materials and links

Reference and research

From SCIAD NET.

Archived pages

From SCIAD NET.

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