Commentary: What I learn from Utah’s ‘yet unpolished gems’

Youthful impulse is often what puts kids in treatment centers. But it’s also what turns their lives back around.Sprinkled across Utah’s eye-catching mountains, peaceful valleys and sweeping plateaus are a series of inpatient wilderness therapy programs and residential treatment centers for adolescents and young adults. Their high success rate is attributed to many factors: the quality of the staff, the beauty and isolation of the surroundings and the local legislation that enables th