Troubled Teens Resources

Teen help comes in unexpected ways. Teen crisis intervention sometimes is a huge production with fund raising campaigns and monthly meetings and earnest, dedicated volunteers
Then sometimes intervention comes in a dream. That one clear and lucid moment when a troubled teen first realizes the possibilities of a world outside their pain or sorrow. A promise of hope.

Astronaut Don Lind supplies not only hope, but wisdom. He does so by teaching a very powerful lesson on consequences and exercising the power of choice. He begins by saying this:

“I don’t even know what beer tastes like, I’ve never had a drop of it,” Lind said…”

From a 77 year old man, that is a jolting statement for a teen to hear; the possibility of a great life lived without the need to “get high”. It probably is no mistake that he entitled his talk, “Getting Higher.”

More importantly, his story forces a teen to realize that “now” is important. That the decisions that he or she makes today will have repercussions that could change the course of their lives.

He goes on to explain….

“..Highschoolers today qualify or disqualify themselves for things in the future…somebody in a school system somewhere is going to be the first person to set foot on Mars,” Lind said, adding that whoever is chosen won’t have an alcohol-pickled brain or tobacco-shot lungs.

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