Youth and adults with disabilities.

TRAILS is an adaptive sports program that includes: adaptive recreation opportunities; spinal cord injury forum and wellness programs; virtual outreach (web-based and telemedicine/telehealth links); advocacy; peer support; and social activities. 

Activities Include:

• Recreation programs
• indoor spinning
• hand cycling
• kayaking
• sailing
• target shooting
• downhill skiing
• cross-country skiing
• swimming
• wheelchair tennis.

TRAILS is designed to prepare individuals of all ability levels to engage in active living through recreational experiences.

A comprehensive outreach program of the Craig H Neilsen Rehabilitation Center at University of Utah Health.

Kids with special needs, and adult caregivers, Salt Lake valley

Provides programs for kids with special needs, educators, health care providers, and yoga teachers.

Services Include:

• Art and Yoga classes for kids with special needs
• Classroom Yoga Programs
• Curriculum kits and DVDs for use in school and after school programs
• Online resources

All Ages, varies per provider. Accepts private pay and some insurance plans. Sliding scale offered. Contact for current information.

Provides outpatient mental health care. 

Services Include:

• Diagnostic Evaluation - Learning Disorders
• Diagnostic Evaluation - Developmental Delays
• Neuropsychological evaluation
• Outpatient individual mental health therapy
• Outpatient family therapy
• Outpatient group therapy
• Day treatment/partial hospitalization
• Residential services Intensive out-patient substance use disorder
• Intensive out-patient compulsive sexual behavior treatment
• Intensive wilderness treatment for compulsive sexual behaviors
• Specialized parent/family experiential therapy
• Equine-assisted therapy

Issues Treated (Varies per provider):

• Fear, worry & anxiety; obsession/compulsions
• Sadness, hopelessness, & depression
• Inattention & hyperactivity
• Rule breaking, defiance, & "acting out"
• Severe mood swings & bursts of rage
• Autism & related disorders
• Drug & alcohol use
• Mental health problems with co-existing chronic medical conditions
• Somatoform and conversion disorders
• Traumatic brain injury
• Compulsive sexual behaviors
• Conduct disorder, alienated families, dysfunctional family systems

Daniel M. Sanderson, Ph.D.

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Family Therapy
• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
• Hypnotherapy
• Integrative/strategic therapy

Matt Bulkley, LCSW

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Family Therapy
• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

C. Stan Sullivan, LCSW, CSAT, EMDR, NLP

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
• Family Therapy
• EMDR, Attachment, Mindfulness Meditation, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Task Centered

Lorneta Freguson, LCSW

• Works with children and families
• Helps families and foster families discover source of behavioral problems and help children heal from past trauma
• Works with children who have experienced early childhood trauma from adoption, maltreatment, or abandonment issues.
• Equine Assisted Psychotherapist

See website or contact for additional provider names and specialties. All providers may not provide all services.

Ages 14-18 Self-pay

Residential services for Teens 14-17
Provide Residential Mental Health Services for Female Adolescents

Services Include:

• Family-Therapy-Based Intervention
• Nutrition
• Physical Fitness
• Academics
• Abuse/Addiction Therapy
• Equine Therapy
• Psychiatric Services

Approaches Used:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Family Therapy Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Equine Therapy, Experiential Therapy

Inpatient children and teens

Recreational therapy rooms created to provide tools for exercising the imagination of seriously ill children who face emotional and physical challenges. There are many activities including art and crafts, games, books, toys, dress-up, medical play, and BINGO Wednesdays.

The playroom features specific areas for teens, infants and patients with sensory needs. The playroom provides a calming yet energetic space.

Sophie's Place provides music therapy to children at Primary Children's.

The Forever Young Zone is open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. with occasional closures for special events and holidays.

Treehouse Children's Museum, Ogden is also a Forever Young Zone.

The Forever Young Foundation serves children facing significant physical, emotional, and financial challenges by providing them with academic, athletic, and therapeutic opportunities currently unavailable to them. Forever Young Foundation primarily focuses efforts in Northern California, Arizona, Utah, and Ghana, Africa.

Classes offered: adaptive aquatics, water babies ages 6 - 36 months and their parents, youth swim classes, a member ice skate night, child care available.

Provides recreational therapy services, including consulting along with individual, group, family, and community programming across the state of Utah.