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

Online, August 4, 2011 (Newswire.com) - "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 Teens is an internet talk radio show hosted by Lon Woodbury on www.LATalkRadio.com every 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.