Troubled Teens Resources

Teen crisis intervention is very often conducted via community supported programs, school interventions and other efforts. Then sometimes, an intervention occurs one on one. Sometimes it is a story that turns teens at risk away from the temptation of drugs. Especially in a time when media and the culture suggest that getting high has no consequences.

The following is excerpted from a father’s post who wants very much to make an impact on the teens in his community.

“I heard the news Tony Parham had committed suicide, Then Howard Larsen tried to kill himself by jumping out of a car on the fwy, There were two more suicides that year. Monte Burlingame freaked out on acid. He was running in the middle of the street screaming …He was never the same after that.
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Mark michaels was found attached to a Basket ball pole at the school one morning with one arm around the pole walking and spinning around and around he had been there all night. mumbling incoherently…

Mark Morisson was pulled over by the cops he had a bag on him. he swallowed it and started to fight with th cops, the bag broke and he died in Huntington Beach jail of a heart attack from all the Coke in his system.”

The parent is utilizing a website, Parent Team, that was created by a community of parents who are using every tool they can to stop the devastation teen drinking and drugging have wrought in their town.

“I’m here because I’ve been down your road and I know what’s coming around the next corner for you. There is a fatal wreck waiting to happen with your or some of your friends name in it.”

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