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Rites of Passage Wilderness Therapy is a Washington wilderness and residential treatment program associated with Rites of Passage NW in Shelton. Public treatment listings place Rites of Passage Wilderness Programs at 142 East Strong Road in Shelton and describe a model combining wilderness treks with a longer-term ranch-based residential component (Recovery.com, Rehabs.com).

Listings describe the program as serving adolescents and young adults with substance-use and co-occurring mental-health concerns, with services including wilderness expeditions, ranch chores, schooling, volunteering, equine therapy, and transitional work programs (Recovery.com).

The Washington State Institute for Public Policy has reviewed wilderness therapy as a behavioral-health model and separately noted that prior Washington reviews included Rites of Passage Wilderness Therapy; the institute found that available evidence did not permit rigorous estimates of treatment effects for that topic (WSIPP).