Help Beyond Graduation

We're committed to helping teens turnaround poor behavior, but that committment doesn't end for us once teens graduate from the program.

Once teens return home to the same environment (home, school, community) where their issues were developed, they may stumble on their road to complete recovery.

In recent research* three key factors were cited in helping teens maintain a full recovery:

1. The extent of family involvement in the treatment process before discharge.
2. The stability of the family environment after discharge(home, school, community).
3. The availability of aftercare support for the child or youth and their families.

While at Turnabout teens learn new ways to handle real world problems. Sometimes it can be difficult to learn how to apply these new tools outside of a structured environment. That is why we begin planning for the support, and care teen's are going to need to make a successful transition back home as soon as they enter the program.

Too often treatment programs approach aftercare as simply an afterthought, or something to be dealt with on an 'as needed' basis; but not at Turnabout, we're ready to go the distance towards a complete, healthy recovery.

For more information on the strong emphasis Turnabout also places on family involvement, look here.

*Heather J. Hair, M.Sc. (2005) Outcomes for Children and Adolescents After Residential Treatment: A  Review of Research from 1993 to 2003, Journal of Child and Family Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, December, pp. 551–575.