SWS is seeking partners to begin an effort to develop proof of evidence based practices in adventure and wilderness based therapy. SWS believes it is in a unique position to do this, since the company and its staff have a thirteen year history of producing practical, evidence based studies and have a 21 year history of providing adventure and wilderness based therapy to over 1,800 children and youth through Challenge Adventures.

Organizations that are providing adventure and wilderness based therapy, especially to vulnerable populations, are encouraged to contact us. We are ready and able to begin work on projects immediately.

SWS has added several additional features to the 21st Century Community Learning Center GEMS® and has produced the AmeriCorps GEMS®, the OJJDP Mentoring Grant GEMS®, and the Learn and Serve GEMS®. The 21st CCLC GEMS® is being used by the SC Department of Education and by several schools in Tennessee. The Mentoring and Learn and Serve GEMS® are being used by the SC Department of Education and the AmeriCorps GEMS® is being used by HOPE worldwide in Alaska, New Orleans, Washington State, Denver and Los Angeles. GEMS® is an online data management system specifically designed to perform all of the many data tasks required of organizations that receive federal grants but with only the need to enter the data one time. The GEMS® is used for uploading information to federal systems, federal reporting, state reporting, evaluations, management information, continuing quality improvement, tracking worker time, writing grant requests and many other functions. To learn more, go to swsgems.com.