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Making Decisions For Our Teens Stories can have so many different endings, depending on the choices that we make throughout our lifetime and the chances we take. As an adult and parent we make choices for our family, with very little training, hoping they are the right decisions. Three years ago, my son went into [...]
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It appears my son will graduate from high school or finish all his credits by the middle of next month. I am not celebrating yet, because we all know with troubled teens anything can happen in the wink of an eye. Right now he is on the path of having all his units completed. How [...]
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Last night while I was at the dinner table I sat back and looked at my family with relief. All five of us at dinner, no outsiders (sorry girlfriends) just the three boys, mom and dad. It felt so good to have everyone together for an informal unplanned dinner. We made individual pizzas; it is [...]
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The economy is hitting Three Rivers Montana an outdoor wilderness program based in Belgrade. They are closing the doors the end of this month and laying off 37 employees. January is usually a very big month for admissions and they did not get any this year. Many of the families that use the program tend to [...]
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No one ever said this was going to be easy or quick or have any guarantees, but we are in for the long haul and entering a new phase of adolescent rehabilitation and residential treatment with our teen son. It was June 2007 that he went to Wilderness, unsure of what it meant or what they [...]
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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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This is a direct affect of our economic times. Sadly our young adults will not be getting the treatments they need. Breaking News – New Horizons For Young Women Closing. Aspen Groups Excel Academy of Texas’ Consolidation of Services
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We sent our son to a Teen Wilderness Therapy Program last year and I was reading through my journal. Looking back realizing our family was in great turmoil, the guilt, the shame, lack of sleep, loss of work, wondering how your teen is doing, and the never ending pain in your heart that comes with [...]
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