Troubled Teens Resources

Teen crisis intervention begins at home and it begins with parents. Parents who do not assume the responsibilities of adulthood will experience some intervention themselves. Troubled teens require mature adults to raise them, not teenage wanna-bes trying to be buddies with their kids. So any parent that is thinking how hip they are to host drinking parties for their teenagers might want to reconsider their view.

“A Deerfield man will report to the Lake County Jail this week, to begin two weeks of work-release — because he allowed his son to host a teenaged drinking party that turned deadly.

With homecoming weekends at hand for high schools across the metropolitan area, police, prosecutors and advocates are hoping it serves as a warning.

Jeffrey Hutsell seemed to many, including friends and associates, as one of the least likely people to go to jail.

The 53-year-old Hutsell is an entrepreneur known for his years of charitable giving and community service to his church and community, working with the victims of Hurricane Katrina and on volunteer projects as far away as Guatemala and Africa.

But Lake County (Ill.) State’s Attorney Michael Waller said a night of “appallingly bad judgment” last Oct. 13, that ended in the deaths of two 18-year-old partygoers, stained that reputation.

“(Jail) time in this particular case sends a message and it will deter others doing what these defendants did,” he said.”

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