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Three Strands Wilderness

Also known as Three Strands, 3 Strands

Closed Oak Creek, Colorado

At a glance

Address: Oak Creek, CO
Type: Substance Abuse Treatment
Operated: 2019 to 2020
Serves: Ages 18 to 27

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Three Strands Wilderness was a substance abuse treatment in Oak Creek, Colorado. It operated from 2019 to 2020. It is not a troubled teen program; it is listed under Young Adult Programs.

About Three Strands Wilderness

It opened 2019 on a 1,378-acre ranch off Routt County Road 16 near Lynx Pass in South Routt; 90 days of ranch work and therapy with a 30-day wilderness expedition; young men 18-27; president Hans Aschinger.source It was listed as closed, year given: 2019.source It closed late 2020: its website was last captured advertising on 2020-11-27 (source), and the ranch (Lost Elk Ranch) sold in mid-December 2020 after the treatment program had ended (Steamboat Pilot, 2020-12-26, source). Its company, Three Strands, Ltd, went delinquent June 1, 2021 (Colorado Secretary of State). It closed (2020) per news report: Steamboat Pilot, "South Routt ranch sells for over $6M as area continues to be prime market for high-end ranch properties", 2020-12-26 source (the ranch's treatment program "reportedly ended prior to the sale").

Patrick Hawkins was Operational Director from July 2019 to August 2020 (Bold.pro resume).

Staff

Notable staff

Patrick Hawkins

Program Director (2019)source
Elsewhere in the industry
- Wilderness Treatment Center Clinical Director, 2019
- Triple Divide Lodge Co-Founder and Executive Director, 2021
- Three Strands Wilderness program director

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Reporting this program

This program closed in 2020, so the state agency that licensed it can no longer act against it. Other channels may still be able to: the boards that license the people who worked here, law enforcement, and the civil courts.

The Colorado reporting channels list each one and what it can do. Time limits depend on the state, the kind of harm and the survivor's age, and many states have lengthened or removed them for child sexual abuse, so a program closing long ago does not by itself mean it is too late. Laws change, so the time limits we list were correct when we checked them but may have been updated since; a lawyer can tell you where things stand now.