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AtoZ Tutoring
A to Z In-Home Tutoring began in Nashville, Tennessee and now offers a wide-range of tutoring programs nationwide. In addition to tutoring private clients, our company also provides exceptional tutoring services to children of low-income families. We do this through partnerships with school districts, as well as with state and local governments and non-profit organizations.
For our Nevada Contacts click here: http://www.atoztutoring.com/contact/nevada.html
Maple Star Oregon
Maple Star Oregon is now located at: http://www.maplestaror.org
Treatment Foster Care
Treatment Foster Care:
(Specialized Services)
Treatment Foster Care is a distinct, powerful, and unique model of care that provides children with a combination of the best elements of traditional foster care and residential treatment centers. In Treatment Foster Care, the positive aspects of the nurturing and therapeutic family environment are combined with active and structured treatment. Treatment Foster Programs provide, in a clinically effective and cost-effective way, individualized and intensive treatment for children and adolescents who would otherwise be placed in institutional settings.
Treatment Foster Care and traditional foster care are two distinct program models intended to serve different populations.
Treatment Foster Care is a clinically effective and cost-effective alternative to residential treatment facilities that combines the treatment technologies typically associated with more restrictive settings with the nurturing and individualized family environment.
Foster care has provided nurturing, safe, and custodial care for children who require placement outside of their family. The primary reason for placement in traditional foster care is the need for care and protection. The role of the foster parent is that of caregiver and nurturer. Treatment, if any, occurs outside of the foster home.
Children are referred to Treatment Foster Care programs to address their serious levels of emotional, behavioral and medical problems. Treatment Foster Care is active and structured, and occurs in the foster family home.
To learn more about how you can become a Treatment Foster Parent, contact Krishetta Gilliam at:
Tel: 720.212.6795 or email at:
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Seven Challenges
Seven Challenges
Substance Abuse Treatment Services
Traditional approaches to working with adolescents who have drug problems have produced disappointing results. The mad rush to get young people to say, "I will quit" often leads to either increased defiance, or increased dishonesty, with young people telling adults what they "want to hear." It also leads to failure among certain youth who follow adult directives to quit, but soon relapse because they have not laid a solid foundation for success.
The Seven Challenges Program starts where youth "are at" (usually resistant and reluctant to change), not where we wish they would be or might pretend to be (fully and honestly prepared to quit.) We avoid the pitfall of teaching people to be drug free before they have honestly decided to be drug free. We also resist the temptation to follow the common practice of locking horns; trying to convince young people that they have problems, and backing them into defensive positions. Instead of fear and coercion, we harness the enormous power of education, finesse and respectful confrontation. We take the slow but steady approach.
To succeed in working with youth, The Seven Challenges Program places a special emphasis on creating a climate of mutual respect within which individuals can talk openly and honestly about themselves. Working through The Seven Challenges helps adolescents understand what needs they are meeting by using drugs, what harm they are causing, what risks they are taking, and what it entails to give up a drug using lifestyle. We raise consciousness, inspire hope, and motivate informed, internally driven, sincere decisions to change.
Information on The Seven Challenges is available at www.sevenchallenges.com
Composite of Evidence for The Seven Challenges®
The Seven Challenges Program was developed by Robert Schwebel, Ph.D., who is still very actively involved with clinical aspects of the Program. Dr. Schwebel initially created The Seven Challenges while working with adolescents in a
In terms of outcomes studies, The Seven Challenges was fortunate to have been rolled into studies, funded by The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), as a comparison group. These research studies were completed at the
In 2005, at the SAMHSA Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness (JMATE), Michael Dennis presented data comparing manualized treatment in outpatient settings for youth with serious trauma issues. The Seven Challenges had a significantly larger effect than all the other programs and was the most effective outpatient approach for reducing substance use among adolescents with high victimization scores. The executive summary appears below as well.
To refer a youth to Maple Star's Seven Challenges program contact Eric Bouwman, Seven Challenges Coordinator, at
Tel: 720-496-8234 or eMail at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Supporting a Colorado Child
Supporting a Colorado Child:
Consider how you can open your mind, open your heart, and then open your door to a child! Becoming a foster parent means opening your life to caring for children who come from difficult backgrounds and require structure and supervision. It involves nurturing a child who may not know what it means to be cared for.
Foster parents may choose to care for specific populations such as adolescents, sibling groups, younger children or youth involved in the criminal justice system. Your role helps children and assists families to heal.
Maple Star is licensed to provide adoption services for prospective adoptive parents. . Prospective adoptive families can choose to be foster to adopt parents or consider legally-free children. Foster families may become interested in adopting children in their care who can not be reunited with their family.
Regardless of your goal we will work with you towards becoming a forever family for a child.
Links
Oregon Links to Trainings, Information and Other Resources
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