UK professor believes outdoor nature challenges can help trauma victims heal body and mind

By Greg Davis

Published August 27, 2024 at 10:24 AM EDT

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As an undergraduate student and English major at UK during the 1990s, Roger Brown spent his summer breaks working as a counselor at the Life Adventure Camp. The center was founded by a small group of UK graduate students, two of whom are Brown’s parents. It provided five-day wilderness living experiences to low-income and special needs youth at a forested property in Estill County. Fast forward to today where the now UK alum and current faculty member uses his close ties to LAC to help foster resilience in individuals affected by trauma. He talks about it in this week’s Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine.

Here's more info on professor Brown and the Life Adventure Center courtesy of UK Now:

https://uknow.uky.edu/professional-news/resilient-nature-martin-gatton-cafe-professor-transforms-lives-through-outdoor