Attention All Parents of At-Risk Youth: Stop Whining!
If you can count 1-2-3, you can follow these A-B-C’s (and D’s).

Always
stay on top of any new developments: changes in grades, behavior, friends and habits and learn to ask questions.

Before
you go crazy trying to guess, do your best to identify your child's problem(s). Here’s a little sample of what’s out there in cyberspace.

The Directions for Mental Health website includes A Layman's Guide To Depression which may help you identify some areas of concern.

At the Teens Using Drugs: What To Know, What To Do resource page, you will discover that you are definitely not alone and there's plenty of help out there. Just click and search.

Is your child in a gang? If you don't know for sure, visit the Gangs and At Risk Kids website. They've got some answers for you.

How involved in crime is your child? Let those bad acts continue and you’ll be doing more than surfing this Virtual Prison Tour, brought to us by the Florida Department of Corrections.

Cancel
any weekend excursions or vacation plans that don't involve your at-risk child. Before it's too late for time out, he or she is going to require your full attention.

And

Do
join a support group, do your research and become a member of our 2 Late 4 Time Out family. We want to help!!! -- enrollment form coming --

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