TODAY’S KIDS NEED GOALS.
TOMORROW’S WILDERNESS NEEDS GOALS KIDS.

Being a kid today isn’t easy. We are living in an age of great technological innovation. While these advancements offer many benefits to society at large, today’s kids are growing up as subjects in a experiment about digital influences - navigating an unchartered social-emotional landscape built upon electronic “connections” that are not as rewarding as those humans crave.

Countless magazine articles, blog posts, and peer-reviewed medical journals confirm that today’s teens experience more stress, anxiety, and depression than any prior generation. When overlooked, this leads to alarming trends - increases in self-inflicted injuries, opioid drug use and suicides. At GOALS, we believe these stem from a growing sense of hopelessness that today’s kids feel as a result of being socially isolated. It doesn’t have to be this way.

By linking the data behind adolescent mental health with the power of confidence-building and connection-generating wilderness expeditions, GOALS is creating a new norm for today’s youth. We offer guided opportunities for kids to physically and mentally explore places that aren’t readily available outside of our expeditions, creating invaluable connections between the kids we serve & the things we know are developmentally crucial - their authentic identities, the community of people around them, and the remaining wilderness.