Our Youth Transport Story
New Start Transports was started by two former youth program participants, representing three different residential/wilderness programs, and their parents. In 1995, Clinton, President of New Start Transports, was placed in a Utah wilderness program for 57 days by his parents. Just a short while after returning, Clint had found his way back on the destructive path of drugs, theft, truancy, and other destructive choices. Clint's father found another program in Western Samoa. He spent nearly two years in Samoa before returning home. The greatest benefit of the program was that he had been given time to mature in his thinking and to soberly reflect on his past decisions and how they affected the lives of not only him but others as well. Clint was finally determined to succeed when he returned home at age 16 ½.
Shortly after arriving home, Clint realized that his younger brother, Jacob, was following many of the bad examples he had set before. Clint and his mother, Cindy, enrolled and escorted Jacob to a Utah wilderness program. While they were able to get Jacob to the program, the entire transport experience was a very emotional time for his mother and a physical battle for Clint to keep Jacob in the car. Jacob completed 57 days in his wilderness program and returned home with a renewed commitment to make better choices. Wilderness offered him a chance to make the changes he needed and also provided a vital assessment from which aftercare services would be necessary.
Because of their prior experiences in youth programs, Clint and Jacob were hired by several residential and transport businesses. After working for a couple of years with a variety of teen transport services, Clint felt that his family could offer a more personalized and caring service on their own. In 2005, New Start Transports officially began its operations. By 2006, they had become very well acquainted with both the ethical and not so ethical teen programs. Because New Start Transports is often the first step of the recovery process for a teen, it decided to only support treatment facilities that they agreed with in principle, ethics, and integrity.
Today, Jacob is still assisting with New Start Transports while running a group home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clint is married, with one daughter, and living in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. Their parents are forever grateful that they had the courage and ability to intervene during Clint's and Jacob's troubled teenage years.
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