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.)

All PSST meetings cancelled for August

This is just a chance for Lloyd and Val to catch up on things. We will be back in the Fall. Have a nice rest-of-the-summer everyone! You ca...

Home Run Derby

This post was submitted by Mary C. “To let you know how far I've come, let me tell you where I've been. Not that long ago, there wer...

Sorry, our Tuesday, July 15 meeting at Gateway is cancelled.

Sorry, our Tuesday, July 15 meeting at Gateway is cancelled due to lack of interest. We are not sure that we will continue this meeting as i...

Crisis Network kicks off

Starting July 1, re:solve Crisis Network began operating its phone and mobile crisis services. By calling the re:solve Crisis Network phone ...

A chance to help.

Join Together is an excellent national advocacy group that monitors and gets involved with the problems and issues surrounding drug and alco...

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...

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