What Is Emerge? Emerge integrates student support services, advocacy, mentoring, and coaching into the students’ college experience. It has expertise and specialization in transitional services and advising families who are facing challenges with their young adults’ behavioral, emotional, and learning…
What is Echo Springs? Echo Springs Transition Study Center offers a unique program for young people, ages 18 to 24. The down to earth approach models and teaches effective setting of boundaries, realistic life skills, real world job exposure, goal…
Children start developing independence from their parents at an early age. First they learn to walk and talk, then they are off to school making friends of their own, and before a loving parent can blink, they are teenagers heading…
What Is Right Direction Crisis Intervention? Right Direction Crisis Intervention helps young people in difficult situations. The employees of Right Direction are all trained on non-violent crisis intervention. The Interventionists observe high standards so that they can role models. Right…
Teens today are sometimes willing to pretend that abuse from a boyfriend or girlfriend is okay or normal, so that they are accepted and loved. Teens can mistake dating abuse as something much less serious than what it really is.…
In high school, it's a constant social battle to be popular and cool among your peers. And of course the struggle becomes even more difficult when you factor in the cliques and cliches that are associated with high school-aged kids…
There are few bigger moments in the life of a teenager then when they turn old enough to drive a car. Whether your state allows teens to start driving at 16 or at 14, odds are you can expect to…
What Is Vive? Vive is an organization offering therapeutic mentoring for teenagers along with coaching their parents for the much need support. Both parents and mentors support the family by offering real time, experiential support in the teenager’s home. Vive…
Losing a friend or loved one is always difficult, but it can be much harder for a teenager to deal with the loss of one of their peers because they still at least somewhat believe that they are invincible. After…
Inappropriate Behavior - Why Parents Dismiss it as a Phase by James Lehman, MSW Q: Why do parents tend to dismiss inappropriate behavior as “a phase?” James: When a child is between 18 months and two years old, they’ll start to…
The rise of social media has changed the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world, but can the use of social media lead to depression? In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a report that suggested…
Prescription drug abuse among adolescents is steadily on the rise these days, and kids aren't getting them from shady drug dealers--they're finding them right in their own homes. Because prescription drugs are legal, many of us are not aware of…
We've all seen it countless times- the golden movie moment when the troubled child scores a winning home run or the goal that seals the team's victory, basking in the glow from proud parents and surprised peers. Unfortunately real life…
What Is Future Men? Future Men for God is a facility dedicated to transforming young men who have childish obsessions and behaviors such as problems with self-control, sloppy clothing, offensive habits/language, disrespectful, anger, slothfulness, foolish friends, and godless music, to…
Most teenagers today have a cell phone. Many parents find that cell phones are the easiest way to communicate with their teenage children. If you’re planning on purchasing your teenager a smartphone, it’s important that you lay down the ground rules…
