Island View RTC was one of the first treatment centers I visited before we placed our son and he was in Wilderness at the time. Island View was our treatment center of choice and we really wanted our son to go there. What we want does not always work and the placement did not work for us. They did not
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As you read this blog know there are many families like you out there, through TroubleTeenBlog.com we are creating a community of love and support for families with teens in treatment. Below is a post from a parent that admitted her son last week. Not easy to do and from her remarks it sounds like [...]
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How Long Will My Adolescent Need Mental Health Care at a Residential Treatment Program? When I first learned that my son needed residential treatment, my first question was “What?” I had never heard of residential treatment. Then my next question was “how long?” I figured it would be an in and out process, kind of [...]
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New Haven Residential Treatment Center was awarded Utah’s Best of State Award for the category of “Youth Treatment Center“. New Haven’s residential treatment program helps adolescent girls achieve positive change and growth through academic, therapeutic and relationship-focused experiences, they are located in Spanish Fork and Saratoga Springs, Utah. According to the press release, “nominees for [...]
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For our family Thanksgiving will have many different meanings. I was told when we started this process that “our family” will never be the same and looking back, I now understand what that means. It was a year ago Thanksgiving, that we started down (and I mean down) this path and this is one time [...]
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When I was first told that my son needed “residential treatment” they could have been speaking a foreign language. I had no idea what a residential treatment facility was like or where they were. I had heard of kids going away or leaving home, for different intervention reasons but never paid much attention because I [...]
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