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.)

Three scenarios for July 3rd meeting (video plays at bottom of post)

At our July 3rd meeting, we are going to start our meeting off by helping PSST parents write their own DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE via contr...

Rules and contracts

We have a request by Rocco to cover rules and contracts at our July 3rd meeting. Soon, Cisco will probably be released back home. In prepara...

PSST Fathers: Persevering, Skillful, Supportive & Terrific

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly sta...

Summary of June 19th PSST Meeting - by "Max"

A Tale of Three Moms - Summary of June 19th PSST Meeting by "Max" Today was a great PSST meeting at Outreach Teen & Family Se...

Letter to the Judge by a concerned PSST parent.

At our meeting in Mt. Lebanon today one of our parents offered to share this letter that she gave to the Judge at her son's hearing. Her...

Let’s Do the Twist – A Summary of the June 12 PSST Meeting.

We had another encouraging turnout and a good time at Saturday’s PSST meeting at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Wexford. Kathie and Lloyd le...

Gratitude for My Sons Recovery by a Grateful Father

Last week I was thinking about all the positive changes that happened in my life in the past year. I am very grateful that my son is back in...

A TIME TO COME HOME, A TIME TO STAY HOME, A TIME TO LEAVE HOME - SUMMARY OF THE JUNE 5 PSST MEETING

We had a really encouraging turnout and a good time at this week’s PSST meeting in Wilkinsburg. Kathie and Lloyd led the meeting. We had 12 ...

Have a home pass or off grounds pass with teen in placement?

At our well attended meeting this morning (12 parents with five new faces), Ralph Kramden (pen name) mentioned that there is a post on the b...

GOT STRESS? - A Court Hearing Followed by a Six Hour Home Pass

"Stress is simply the adaptation of our bodies and minds to change; and change is about the only constant left in our lives." It h...

LOOK TO THE RIGHT

LOOK TO THE RIGHT Look to the right of this page and you will find a link to “ TIME TO ACT ” presented by the Partnership for a Drug-Free Am...

Highest Duty: the Search for What Really Matters

I read Rocco's comment to another post where he mentions that he is reading and really enjoying this book by Chesley B. Sullenberger. I ...

Mock Car Crash Day at Brashear High School 5-19-10

Two teens from Liberty Station joined a 24 year-old to warn Brashear High Students not to drink and drive. There were eight of us; Cathy Cul...

"Who Moved the Cheese?" or How Parent's Power Surge Perplexes Teen

This is an email that I received from Lloyd, who is Cisco's P.O. Lloyd and I have had several conversations over the last year about th...

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