at-risk adolescents
SafePassage – Merry Christmas
Monday, December 20th, 2010To honor our Clients and express our appreciation to the therapeutic schools and programs and Educational Consultants who place their faith and trust in SafePassage Adolescent Services, a donation to the United Methodist Children’s Home in Decatur, GA has been made. The UMCH, founded in 1871, assists children and families who do not have access [...]
Eckerd Youth Alternatives
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010I sat down yesterday with Eckerd Youth Alternatives Quality Control Officer, Greg Holeman to find out more about Eckerd schools and programs and their plans for the future. 100,000 Stories and Counting is printed on the front of their marketing packet; so I asked Greg is this really true? Greg told me that since the [...]
17 Is Not Old Enough
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Late yesterday I received a panic phone call from a therapeutic boarding school. They said that one of their students was on a family visit at a mall when the student bolted. The parents, of course, chased in pursuit of their own child and when they caught up to her they put hands on her. [...]
Adolescents and Gaming-Reality
Thursday, March 5th, 2009In a recent conversation with Christy Cook, MA, LAPC we discussed the adolescents’ sense of reality. In our professions we both encounter at-risk adolescents who are, often times at their worst. So I posed the question to Cook: Do you think that adolescents in general have a distorted sense of reality and if so, why [...]
