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Your child needs you to Parent…

Your Child needs you to Parent... ...especially if your teenager is already going down the wrong path. A warm relationship is ideal, but sometimes you must do things your child won't be happy with. Dr. Phil McGraw said  "Remember: you're a parent, not a pal. Your responsibility is to ensure the well-being and safety of your child. Intervening in a dangerous situation (like ones involving drugs, abuse or truancy) might make…
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December 12, 2012
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Service Project

Service Project... My girls wanted to do something for the boys at Triumph.   They decided to teach and help them make personal blankets for their trip to Alaska.  The boys loved it and all participated.  Of course this took patience, time, and did I say patience. The girls wanted them to have something for themselves that they could take back home after they graduated the program.  I believe my…
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December 12, 2012
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Gaining Personal Confidence

Gaining Personal Confidence Thomas Edison once said that "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% what we decide to do about it." That 90% can either make us better or bring us down, and with PERSONAL CONFIDENCE it can only make us better. Every youth has the ability to make good, positive life decisions.  Drug and alcohol addictions, defiance, low-self esteem, non-compliance, falling grades, anger and disrespect, and…
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December 10, 2012
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Building Positive Peer Culture

Building Positive Peer Culture   Giving the youth the personal courage , confidence  and self-esteem they need to make the right choices is key to them becoming successful and positive members of society. At Triumph Youth Services, we instill those attributes into the youth through Positive Peer Culture.     The following is a brief article that explains Positive Peer Culture: PPC is a peer-helping model designed to improve social competence and cultivate strengths in troubled and troubling youth. “Care…
Triumph Youth Services
December 7, 2012
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Christmas Traditions

Christmas Traditions  Rituals and Traditions are very important in building and strengthening identity and family strength.  Here at Triumph we have many traditions and rituals, some that we do each day and others that we do consistently throughout the week and then we have annual traditions that we complete each year.  Some of our daily traditions (completed sometimes several times daily) include the Serenity Prayer, reciting the Triumph Mission Statement,…
Triumph Youth Services
December 6, 2012