Clients get individual care from psychiatrists and licensed therapists to address underlying issues like trauma and mental health concerns. Recovery Unplugged offers the full spectrum of services–detoxification, residential, Intensive Outpatient (IOP), Partial Hospitalization (PHP), and sober living. Music was playing from the detox center to the corporate offices. Music is everywhere! Every location that I visited had music playing and the genres ranged from hip-hop, alternative rock, to jazz. Each facility has a ‘stage’ and clients are encouraged to share and express themselves from the stage at different times. Music is powerful! Recovery Unplugged uses music to bypass defense mechanisms, build community, and to create healthy expressions of emotions. I can listen to a song and it can change my mood. One song can take me back to my childhood and I can remember all the details of an experience that was related to a particular song. Art, language, and music have been a part of all cultures since the beginning of time and which separates humans from all other species on our planet. This treatment program was started by a musician about 6 years ago in Florida which combines music into every aspect of their clinical care. The summer camps and other programs put on by the Botanical Garden go toward keeping the space available for Alaskans year-round.Last week I had the pleasure of visiting an amazing addiction treatment program in Ft Lauderdale, Florida– Recovery Unplugged (RU). “Plus, we have our cultivated gardens, but it’s just a beautiful, kind of relaxing place to be.” “There’s just kind of a spirit and a good feeling here, you’re walking into a forest,” Ryan said. Ryan said the camps at the Botanical Garden help kids gain a naturalist intelligence about the forest around them. He corrects Cecelia, and teaches her that she is actually holding a Birch Shield Bug - technically not a part of the stink bug family Pentatomidae - but they still release an odor when they are squished. Patrick Ryan has been helping lead the camps since he began working with the botanical garden nearly 20 years ago. “I found one on the table and I picked it up.” “When they’re scared they make a stinky smell,” Ross said. She was very excited.”Ĭecelia Ross is 6 years old and made a wanted poster for a stink bug as part of their lesson about helpful and harmful insects. “We made copies for all of our friends so they can pass them out. They learned about termites and they drew wanted posters,” Neff said. Neff said she hears all about what her daughter Vivian learned about each day when she comes home from camp. Terra Neff and her family moved to Alaska from Texas two years ago. Some of the plastic bugs will begin a game that campers play, and others are just to help campers lose their fear of insects. “There’s a big spider right there,” Johnson said. A worm wriggles around in Lilly Anderson’s hand at the Insect Safari camp at the Anchorage Botanical Garden on the morning of Wednesday, June 21, 2023 “So we learned about mosquitos and they have like a saw on their nose and they cut into your skin and they spit on your skin and it’s so it doesn’t, you don’t feel it when they’re biting you,” Johnson said.Ĭounselors - or fairies, as the campers are told - hide plastic bugs throughout the botanical garden that kids find each morning, but some of the bugs are very real. She also rattled off some facts about one of Alaska’s most common insects. Eight-year-old Harbour Johnson said she learned how worms can turn soil into compost. Shriner said that after last summer, parents asked for a week of camp centered around insects. The insect safari camp is a new option on the schedule this year. They have a variety of outdoor camp offerings for kids from ages five to 15 that run through the first week of August. The Alaska Botanical Garden has been sponsoring summer day camps for about 20 years. Parents in Anchorage have dozens of camps to choose from. “If they are learning to love to be outside, to respect it, to be curious about it, to wonder, then that’s what I want them to walk away with,” Shriner said. She said parents want to send their kids somewhere they can stay unplugged in the woods all afternoon. Stacey Shriner leads the education department at the botanical garden. Some use microscopes to get a closer look at insects while others are coloring. Lunchtime just finished, and elementary-aged summer campers at the Alaska Botanical Garden are busy. Camper Ceceila Ross winces at the stink bug crawling up her arm at the Insect Safari camp at the Alaska Botanical Garden on June 21, 2023.
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