In 2014, my daughter graduated from a long-term treatment center. She was ready to come home. My husband and I weren’t sure that WE were ready. We’d had weekly Skype sessions with her and her therapist, but we wanted to make sure that we didn’t go back to old patterns as a family. The treatment …
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Parents, Our son had been in four different residential treatment centers over the last five years and was to graduate from High School in June of 2010 and come home. While he had made significant improvement in behavior management and repaired family relationships, his placement environments had been very structured compared to the typical unstructured/easy …
To whom it may concern: When my wife and I were introduced to the concept of Homeward Bound, we didn’t fully understand why we would need their services. We assumed that our son’s wilderness experience would be enough to change our family and our son for the better. We thought that our situation was unique …
Dear Parents, A few months ago, we were in your shoes. Our son was a residential treatment program client for 2 years. The thought of bringing him home was filled with a range of emotions- excited, nervous, happy, petrified- to name a few. We were thrilled to finally have our family together again but afraid …
When our daughter returned home from a therapeutic camp we were very nervous. We were concerned that there would be a return to the old behavioral patterns in a very short time. We decided to have Homeward Bound help us with the transition. It was one of the best decisions we have made. We had …
Dear Parents: I wish that when I was considering wrap-around services for my 16-year-old daughter last August, I wish I had the opportunity to talk to other parents who had gone through similar things…parents who had gone through similar things and survived. So I’m writing this open letter to you, in hopes that my experience …
“Homeward Bound has anticipated virtually every issue we have encountered.” Read More »
Homeward Bound has empowered my family and me to continue forward in a positive direction with this long and challenging journey of parenting. Not just the parenting of a child who has had challenges, but any child. The most difficult thing my husband and I ever had to do was to send our son away. …
Dear Parents, Our RTC dealt with the deep issues that our daughter had, and the dynamics of the family. But after coming home, we all had some adjusting to do, and Homeward Bound has been extremely valuable in helping us accomplish that. Our family therapy had never really addressed her tendency to ‘terrorize’ me – …
“We needed help shifting the emotional power away from her and back to us as parents.” Read More »
This letter is written in support of Homeward Bound and all of the parents who are in the recovery process with their son or daughter. For our family, one of the most frightening events to consider in the recovery process was the actual return home of our daughter. We had taken great comfort in knowing …
“Nothing short of a miracle…saving her life and our sanity.” Read More »
My step kid’s mom died of cancer a few month’s after I married their dad. In retrospect, I desperately wish that we had waited to get married so that the there would be separation between our marriage and this enormous loss. As it is though, the events have been so tied that I am the …
