About
Rite of Passage is a youth-services organization headquartered in Minden, Nevada. The organization describes itself as a provider of community-based services, education services, behavioral-health care, and specialized residential programs for youth and families.
Rite of Passage traces its work to the mid-1980s. A 1986 U.S. Government Accountability Office report described an early Rite of Passage program operating three Nevada facilities on tribal land for emotionally disturbed and delinquent adolescent boys placed primarily through California foster-care channels. The early model included a remote desert camp near Schurz and group homes in Dresserville and Stewart.
The current organization lists a continuum of services that includes family preservation, accredited schools and day-school programs, mental-health services, outpatient services, and short- and long-term residential services. CARF International lists Rite of Passage Adolescent Treatment Centers and Schools, Inc. as first accredited in 2016 and identifies multiple affiliated locations in California and Nevada.