SeaChange Hawaii’s Matt Claybaugh Featured on Parent Choices for Struggling Teens

Parent Choices for Struggling Teens host Lon Woodbury speaks with SeaChange Hawaii’s Program Director, Matt Claybaugh. They discuss teen behavioral problems on a 6-8 week Tall Ship cruise through the Hawaiian Islands.

“Being a part of a shipboard community where everybody has an important role is by itself very healing and therapeutic,” said Matt Claybaugh, CEO of Marimed Foundation and Program Director of SeaChange Hawaii on Lon Woodbury’s Internet Talk Radio Show: Parent Choices for Struggling Teens, on LATalkRadio, Monday August 1, 2011.

“We take children (cadets) with behavioral problems on a 6-8 week Tall Ship cruise through the Hawaiian Islands,” continued Claybaugh, “and through this exposure to a natural environment, having necessary shipboard responsibilities, progressing through a series of ‘rites of passages,’ and experiencing steadily increasing mastery of this new environment, the cadets learn to work through their self-imposed limitations.”

Claybaugh, being raised on the waters of Hawaii and a graduate of an outdoor curriculum course of study in Wisconsin, has been working in education and therapy since 1985 and states “This work combines both my passions for sailing and teaching.”

“It’s the best of all possible worlds for me,” concluded Claybaugh, “and the positive changes I’ve seen in the cadets who have been through SeaChange Hawaii in our first year make it all worthwhile.”

Lon Woodbury, MA, IECA, CEP, an Independent Educational Consultant, is the founder/owner of Woodbury Reports Inc. and www.strugglingteens.com.  He has been working with families and their struggling teens since 1984, and is the Host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens on LATalkRadio Mondays at 12:00 Noon, Pacific Time.

Matt Claybaugh is the CEO and President of Marimed Foundation in Hawaii and in that position helped create SeaChange Hawaii a little over a year ago. This wilderness therapy program uses sailing on the ocean around the Hawaiian Islands as a change agent for adolescents with behavioral problems.  To listen to the full discussion visit www.latalkradio.com/Lon.php.

Parent Choices for Struggling Teensis an internet talk radio show hosted by Lon Woodbury on www.LATalkRadio.comevery Monday noon PST. Each show has a guest(s) who is working on cutting edge methods and ideas to help struggling young people and their families. The archive of all the shows can be found at www.latalkradio.com/Lon.php.

Woodbury Reportswas founded in November 1989, by Lon Woodbury, MA, IECA, CEP, as an Independent Educational Consulting firm to help parents of teens making poor decisions select a private, parent choice program that would help return the family to normalcy.  Through interviews with parents, communication with professionals who know your child well, and then thoroughly researching viable options, we can help parents make the right choices that will help your child get back on the right path.  For more information about Woodbury Reports Inc., call 208-267-5550, or email to [email protected], or visit the web site www.strugglingteens.com.