Company Profile
New Vision Wilderness Therapy
Company Overview
New Vision Wilderness (NVW) sets industry standards in therapeutic outdoor programming. NVW empowers the individual to improve decision-making skills and build healthier relationships. NVW works with the individual and the family, providing an unparalleled wilderness experience while adhering to the highest standards of safety and individual attention.
The emotional and physical safety of students is the most important factor to our staff at New Vision Wilderness
Company History
NVW was founded in February of 2007 and is the first wilderness therapy intervention offered in the state of Wisconsin. Drew Hornbeck and Steve Sawyer created NVW based upon an observed need to offer an innovative therapeutic option for struggling youths and hard-to-reach client populations throughout the region.
In 2012, Drew and Steve teamed up with Robert Koning to expand NVW into the west. The Pacific Northwest has been identified as a region with an observed need for therapeutic intervention programming. We believe it is imperative to provide therapeutic services in regions where it will be most accessible. The West Coast in general has some underserved regions in the delivery of alternative therapeutic programs. Currently, there is a limited number of wilderness-based programs working with young adults in Oregon. As of 2014, New Vision Wilderness West Coast celebrates its first year in operation out of its Central Oregon locations. In 2020, NVW opened its newest location, “First Light,” in the stunning Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia.