Quit Digging! A Lifeline of Hope for Troubled Teens

... is a down-to-earth, easy-to-follow, behavioral management program for troubled teens. Focusing on their value and worth as a human being, Quit Digging! will bring your teen back to the basics. They will discover how we learn and how s/he got to be the way s/he is. Quit Digging! then follows through to helping them understand how to recognize and confront thinking errors and replace them with more healthy and positive choices.

Quit Digging! offers insight into: 

• Discovering the Real "You"
• Identifying Thinking Habits
• Breaking Free from Bondage
• Becoming Men of Honor and Women of Grace

Quit Digging! can give you the tools you need through classroom orientation, individual and group counseling, and exercises that will help develop your new-found skills and abilities. 

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Course Certification:

Certification as a Youth Behavioral Advisor is available through Therapon Institute, Marrero, Louisiana. This 8-hour course is available in-house or through distance-ed. Twenty CEUs will be given upon its completion. Click here for details.

Or, you can schedule seminars for your own group in your own area. Click here for information.

Turbulant Teenage Years

Our teenage years are often the most confusing and puzzling years of our lives.  Somewhere between the times when we enjoyed playing with Tonka©  trucks and baby dolls, and when our greatest sense of joy came from shopping for a new car or going on a date with someone special … and on to the future when marriage, family and career responsibilities loomed ever so closely … something happened.  “Innocence” was lost, and life didn’t feel so good any more.

The Goal

There is no greater goal in life than to help one person change his life and set it upon a healthy, constructive and productive path.   There is no greater satisfaction than knowing you played a part in helping that goal come to pass. 

Youth, even troubled teens, need to be responsible and accountable for their actions, as do we all.  If there is no change in their patterns of thinking and behaving, no accountability for their actions, they will continue in a vicious cycle, which may include crime and confinement.  So the question becomes, how do they make this change? 

The solution lies in the word “choice.”  They must want to change.  But how can the desire to change be birthed and encouraged to grow in a youth who, for most of his life, has been entrenched in negative thinking and corrupt life styles?  The answer is in encouraging them to know, understand and believe that their life does have value and worth. Once they understand that, they can realize that they are selling themselves short by continuing in the patterns they have been living in which are causing them to be “troubled.” 

Helping youth to know and understand being accountable for their actions, while recognizing their value and worth as human beings, is the goal of this program.  This opens up the door of HOPE for their futures, and what greater goal can there be than that?