Now it does appear that Izzy and Scheff no longer want to been viewed as connected in a business-sense. Wasn't there a recent blog by one of these blogging divas that stated they were "helping families together?"
Isabelle Zehnder and Sue Scheff Helping Families Sue Scheff and Isabelle Zehnder believe in team work. They not only work with each other but they work with a group of other professionals who all share the same goals - to keep families together whenever possible and to help find safe alternatives when it is not possible.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Isabelle Zehnder and Sue Scheff - Team work
Sue Scheff and Isabelle Zehnder believe in team work. They not only work with each other but they work with a group of other professionals who all share the same goals - to keep families together whenever possible and to help find safe alternatives when it is not possible.
Isabelle Zehnder is the Founder and CEO of Positive Family Solutions, LLC, and the Founder and President of the Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse (CAICA).
Sue Scheff is the Founder and President of Parents Universal Resources Experts (PURE) and the author of At Wits' End (coming soon).
Today more than ever families are seeking outside help for their children and teens. Today more than ever parents are enrolling their kids into programs and facilities without really understanding what they are getting their child into. They don't realize they are dealing with an unregulated industry that has no governmental oversight.
While both Sue and Isabelle wish all families could stay together and resolve their issues at home that is not always possible. There is a rise in judges giving parents and teens the option to spend a year in a program rather than face a criminal record that will follow them for the rest of their lives. Parents and teens often choose this option.
And often parents are faced with issues with their teens that they feel they cannot resolve on their own. They need outside intervention and often need it quickly. There are times things are so out of control at home that there is no other option but to seek outside intervention.
Often they find Sue and Isabelle asking for advice as to where to send their child. If these parents are turned away the likelihood of their child being placed into a potentially abusive environment is high.
The teen-help, troubled-teen industry has grown into a multi-billion dollar a year industry and there is no sign of it slowing down anytime soon. Many people wanted a piece of the pie. They opened programs without having the experience, credentials, or knowledge as to how to help children and teens faced with issues such as cutting, ADHD, Oppositional Defiance, anger issues, eating disorders, suicidal tendencies, drug addiction, etc. Often they hire untrained, unqualified, non-certified staff which has resulted in children being abused, neglected, and in too many children dying.
Sue has worked for the past seven years helping parents and kids. Her goal has been to find safe alternatives where children will receive the help they need, not be warehoused for profit. She visits programs, keeps in close contact with the directors and staff, and stays in touch with families. Her organization is a member of the Better Business Bureau. Parents have reported great success for their kids and kids have reported the programs made a huge difference in their lives.
If children are placed into programs that offer a therapeutic environment where the staff treat children with respect, trust, and love, the chances for success are high.
Alternatively, if children are placed into a program where there is a lack of respect, trust, and love, the chances of abuse and maltreatment to children are high.
Isabelle has worked for years exposing abuse in residential treatment centers, the foster care system, juvenile justice systems, mental health facilities, and schools.
Isabelle is a Family and Life Coach. Her goal is to keep families together whenever possible. She has spent the past four years learning about and reporting abuse in residential treatment programs, boarding schools, behavior modification programs, wilderness programs, etc. Often parents have said to her, "if I knew then what I know now, I would never have sent my child away."
Isabelle has listened to all of their stories to assess where things went wrong within the family unit. She has learned that there is often a lack of communication between parents and kids and other issues that can often be resolved between the parents and the teens. She has been successful in keeping families together who otherwise would have been torn apart.
While Isabelle would like to be able to help all families that turn to her, it is not always possible. Sometimes she is faced with a situation that calls for outside intervention, as mentioned above. During those times she turns to Sue for help.
And when Sue receives a call from a desperate parent and feels the issues could possibly be resolved at home she will suggest parents call Isabelle to see if coaching may help keep their families together.
Sue and Isabelle do not profit from each other, nor do they have any financial relationships. This is about parents helping parents and coming together for the common goal of helping families.
Sue and Isabelle believe in team work. They not only work with each other but they work with a group of other professionals who all share the same goals - to keep families together whenever possible and to help find safe alternatives when it is not possible.
Posted by Isabelle Zehnder at 10:11 PM
Labels: child, children, coaching, isabelle zehnder, kids, parents, programs, residential treatment centers, struggling teen, sue scheff, teen help, teens, therapeutic boarding schools, troubled teen
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