Troubled Teens Resources

Josh had been through the juvenile system twice now, in both cases it was because the troubled teen had been caught stealing in order to finance his growing drug habit. The first time he had been through the juvenile system, Josh had been repentant after coming back home. But the lure of drugs, the need to be with his friends, and his dislike for school had been more pressure then the teen could endure.

The troubled teen age son of a single mother, he had little supervision after school and no father figure to replace the father who abandoned the family early on. So it wasn’t surprising that he ended up back in the system. His mother was growing desperate for a solution .

” Bottoming out ” - that is what the drug therapy counselor had told Josh’s mother. Sometimes the only lesson that taught an addict that it was time to quit was to loose it all. She watched his chest slowly rise and fall as the intravenous needle kept his bodily fluids up. The phone call from the police had come when all such phone call do, in the early morning hours when the sound of the ringing phone could only mean bad news.

The bad news was that her drug abusing teenager had been shot in the course of robbing a store. When he left here he would leave in handcuffs. The only alternative to jail was for Cheryl to find a teen drug treatment program in a boarding school, military school, or teen boot camp.

Cheryl was weary and dead inside. She feared loosing her job. She had missed too many days running intervention for her troubled teen. Where was she to begin and how could she afford it? As she watched Josh’s pale and drawn face, she could imagine no bottom lower than this.

Cheryl is not alone. Thousands of single parents face these dreadful circumstances when raising an at-risk teen alone. If you share a similar experience to Cheryl’s, this page will give you some basic guidelines as you begin the search for the appropriate drug treatment program and boarding school for you troubled teenager.