Parent Survival Skills Training (PSST)

Over the years we have collected/shared hard-won information, skills, and techniques a parent needs to help a teenager with a drug problem save his own life. (CLICK ON THE LOGO ABOVE to return to the home-page for this blog.)

Quote from 21 year-old recovering addict

The therapist asked this young man who had recently celebrated two years clean what his plan was if he relapsed. The young man responded, ...

Letter to the Disease by Mary Chalburg

Realizing I was powerless over you empowered me. I have learned that I can not control you, I did not cause you and I can not cure you. I wi...

The Oasis Recovery Center of SW PA

These are some friends of the Bridge to Hope. I thought you would be interested in what is going on and that you may want to volunteer. ...

Addiction: A fatal disease- written by Patty Leoni after the death of her brother in May of 2001.

Drug addiction is a terribly selfish disease that not only affects the addict, but consumes the very life energy of the family and friends ...

Teen Driving

What we say in group: If you do not see responsible behavior out of you children at home- don't expect responsible behavior when they ar...

Fearless

All too often, we are intimidated by our powerful, headstrong, deliberate teens. Sometimes we are afraid of causing a relapse in our teenage...

Home Contract from Caron Foundation

This contract represents another way to structure the home experience for the recovering teenager coming out of a drug rehab. Caron was happ...

If we continue to cause our teenagers to be deeply resentful, we might as well shoot ourselves in the head for all the good it does us.

After our meeting last Saturday I realized that this post needed to be rewritten. Thanks in part to the ideas from parents in group we now h...

Vigil of Hope

The Bridge to Hope Family Support Group “Vigil of Hope” Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at Kearns Spirituality Center Kearns is sponsored by the Si...

Three Pictures from the Pirate Home Opener

I am not really a baseball fan but last Monday was so beautiful, and I had a little time, so I thought I would head down to the game and may...

Giving Consequences

I asked some teens for help. Here's what a group of teenagers said about what they hated most about getting consequences. 1. Too much le...

Let's Take Back 4/20

Sometimes things just get to me. True story. I was hanging out with my son, he is watching Cops on G4, a national cable channel owned by C...

No meeting on 3-29-08.

It's the Fifth Saturday of the Month! We are being featured in an Alliance Video being shot on the morning of the 29th. If you are inter...

New Bridge to Hope Meeting Thursdays in Cranberry

Weekly support group meetings for families affected by substance abuse. Every Thursday, 7 p.m. Garden Montessori School _ 204 Commerce Park ...

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