Content emerging across Partner sites:

6 Characteristics of strong families

Image and Memory

Acadia

Wrestling with Synchronicity

The First Spark of Willingness

A Get Together

Brain Development in Teens

Solar Energy – It’s use for the future

Some more links of interest:

A different slant on inverse steps for parenting.

Enduring unanswered questions.

Some quick links to Stepping Stone Partner content:

Alex posted some reflections on the interview process.

Jeff shared a report about risky teen behavior.

Gerald took a great stop action shot.

And Richard explores how to raise digital natives.

Interesting links to partner content:

Humility for Success

A Failure of Scholarship

Summer Evening on the Delaware

The Peace of Wild Things

The 12-Step Program and 7 effective habits…

Intuition is more than a hunch

Ripley at the Garza Search

Eagle Valley Search Dogs was featured in the Times Herald Record for its work searching for the area around Stewart Airport for the missing body of Laura Garza.  The case has received national attention since Garza went missing this past winter.

Eagle Valley is a K-9 Search and Recue Team whose members are based in the Catskills and the Upper Delaware Valley.  They often hold training sessions with students on the property of the Family Foundation School, a therapeutic boarding school for at risk teens.

An array of interesting content continues to emerge across the Stepping Stone Partner blogs.  You are encouraged to click through to explore and participate in the conversations.

Mike Argiros shares his discovery of interesting references from Carl Jung and Vincent Norman Peale concerning the 12  Steps.

Brain Science and healthy mindedness are explored in the living skills curriculum of Rita Argiros.  Rita also shares some interesting dog handling insights.

Jeff Brain shared an interesting resource to help differentiate between therapeutic boarding schools and residential treatment center options following wilderness.

In the midst of our busy season, there’s some new content emerging on our partner blogs that deserves mention.

Jeff has developed an interesting resource for parent, providing a well thought out checklist of questions to assist parents visiting residential placement options for their struggling teens.

Sid continues to develop his ideas around the current health care debate.

Rita probes acceptance and the question “Are the 12 steps still relevant for today’s struggling teens?”

Richard explores a spiritual dilemma concerning the work we do with at risk youth.

Mike captured this video clip of the dance following the awards dinner at the Family Foundation School.

And at the FFS blog, the belief statement of the therapeutic boarding school was shared.

The following posts across our network provide a wide range of interest.  Over at Help for Struggling Teens and Parents, Jeff Brain posted on Understanding Self Injury.  At On the Road Which Goes Ever On and On… Mike took a trip down memory lane with his post Back in the Day.  On the FFS Blog, a new addition to the chapel at the therapeutic boarding school is highlighted in “a gift in paint”.  At Catskill Cottage Seed, the beauty of the Catskills was shared as experience through a hike up Sugarloaf Mountain.

For all of at Stepping Stone Partners, the opportunity to work with troubled teens enriches our life and provides us ample opportunities for learning.  We are thrilled that you share with us this journey and encourage you to participate in our discussions.

The efforts of all our team members at Stepping Stone Partners continue to expand.  Mike Argiros and Jeff Brain have both found a great deal of traction with their blogs and we have officially launched the Family Foundation School blog as well.

Recent Posts we’d like to highlight for you:

Strength Through Weakness

Anger and the Twelve Steps

Is Your Personal Brand Yourself?

Balance

EVDogs Gives a Hoot

Screwed Up, as in the past tense

Well, our social media strategy is completely implemented now. We have eleven active blogs and dozen of “outposting” accounts across the social media landscape. Every week, in sometimes dramatic, sometimes subtle ways, we see the benefits of implementation.

Recent posts of interest across our platform:

Be a partner of Hancock

Tracking is Easy in March

Training together, The SAR community at its best

Sexting

Accessibility isn’t hard once your aware

Poems and Purple Flip Flops

And We are plesed to announce the launch of our latest blog:

Help for Struggling Teens and Families