Family Hope Line is a cost-free placement service that helps parents find out-of-home programs to address the specific needs of their struggling teen and family. The goal is to find an environment that limits the exposure to the distractions which can prevent a teen from focusing on education, while at the same time providing the necessary experience to learn important life lessons.

One comment often heard is “I didn’t raise my child to behave this way”. Although this may be true, there’s a catch. You have a teen that is wired with their own individual personality, wants, needs, likes and dislikes. Then, of course there’s the biggest influence of all their peers.

And so, the inevitable struggle begins between what YOU have taught your teen and how THEIR perception of that teaching affects their behavior. Often, the end result is a teen living a life completely contradictory to their upbringing.

This is where the painful decision to intervene and provide a fresh start comes into play. A reawakening of the teen’s foundation is needed to facilitate the change necessary for them to reach their full potential.

We have deep and lasting relationships and extensive experience working with numerous residential programs across the country. Ranging in style from boot camps and ranches to smaller more personal facilities, these campuses vary in size from two to two hundred acres This is such an advantage for a parent that is not only desperate for help but needs someone they can trust to lead them toward the right program to care for the needs of their struggling teen.

Programs are designed to embrace the teen at their point of struggle and provide an opportunity to tear down the walls created by poor choices, negative influences and self-defeating behaviors. Through a change in their environment, a teen can seek self-awareness that leads to self- acceptance. Through acceptance, they are able to take the next important steps and allow themselves to experience vulnerability, humility and a willingness to accept responsibility – three key ingredients that will facilitate the much needed heart change. Through the support of staff, the other students and you, your teen can begin redesigning and rebuilding themselves to become the young man or woman they were created to be.

The Family Hope Line is a cost-free placement service that helps parents find out-of-home programs to address the specific needs of their struggling teen and family. The goal is to find an environment that limits the exposure to the distractions which can prevent a teen from focusing on education, while at the same time providing the necessary experience to learn important life lessons.

Teens often carry many layers of hurt… failed expectations, low self-esteem and fear that can mask their potential and hinder their personal growth. When deciding whether or not to enroll your teen into a program, keep in mind that the temporary pain of physical separation can be the greatest step you can take toward reconciliation as a family.

It’s safe to say that for the first time, your teen will be surrounded by a peer group made up of teens who have each made similar poor choices, but are now striving to gather new tools for restoration academically, athletically, spiritually, emotionally and/or personally. If you are a parent visiting this site, you are one of tens of thousands who is living in a home with a struggling teen. Please know, first and foremost, that you are not alone and that hope is available in your situation. One of the toughest decisions you may ever be faced with is whether or not to seek out-of-home placement for your child… a teen that seems to have lost direction, motivation or just can’t seem to avoid self-defeating choices.

Unfortunately, in a time when teens are exposed to options that offer instant gratification, it’s difficult to create an environment that will minimize the distractions and reduce the number of people that may have negative influence. So, it’s only natural that we as parents want to prevent our teens from being exposed to these situations entirely. Here’s the pitfall. Their years as a teenager are a small glimpse into the bigger picture of their life. Instead of complete protection, our teens need an infusion of equipping. They need an opportunity to face their fears, become aware of their unique and individual gifts and learn ways to make better choices that can positively impact their life.

Please click on the link below and take a moment to complete the Confidential Assessment, briefly sharing your current struggles and allow The Family Hope LIne to bridge the overwhelming tasks of needing assistance to receiving assistance.

Every day we speak with frustrated parents who share how their once “normal and happy teenager” is now dangerously out of control – exhibits a complete disregard for rules and authority, experimenting with drugs or alcohol, lying, stealing, cutting, failing in school or engaging in other destructive or disturbing behaviors. They talk about how it has disrupted their home and how they fear for their child’s future and/or their life.

Teens are very unique in their personalities but very similar in the negative behavior patterns that can signal a struggle within themselves.

As your child continues to make poor choices, bad grades, lose friends, damage relationships, become sexually promiscuous, experiment or abuse drugs and alcohol, they are literally escaping from the internal conflict resulting from these actions and so the cycle continues.

Are you having trouble with your child or teen, and don’t know how to improve the relationship?

Are you thinking if you don’t get a handle on the behavior, he or she may end up at a boarding school for troubled teens?

We offer a program that can help you gain invaluable tools to facilitate in parenting successfully to try and prevent the need for out of home placement. Or you may already have your teen or young adult enrolled in a program and would like to take a proactive step in restoring your relationship and gaining better insight as to the changes that need to occur for the transition back into the home.

Dawn Bauer, certified Parent Coach, offers a unique opportunity to parents who may be dealing with a struggling adolescent, teenager or young adult.