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Advocacy for your loved one is a business. 

The sooner you accept this hard but simple fact, the sooner you will be able to live your life instead of managing crises.

The diagnosis of mental illness requires care and support, for the affected person, by their family and mental health professional.? Successful living for you, your loved one and your family begins by answering an important question?

How does your loved one want to live their life?? What are their goals?

All treatment moves forward by honoring what your loved one wants for themselves.

I speak from personal experience.? I used my skills as a social worker to become my brother’s advocate.? Today he is stable, happy and living independently.? I asked what made the difference between him and others who were unable to leave the hospital.? He replied, “It’s because you, dad and I could sit down and talk at the table and nobody would get mad and leave.”? This work is a series of simple actions that add up to hard work.?

Everybody can do this and every family can heal their relationships and escape the cycle of crisis following crisis.? Today you are invited to lay the foundation for reclaiming your life.

We like many parents of adult children with mental illness, were struggling with how best to parent our daughter, now almost thirty years old, a divorced mother of a five-year-old.  Her behavior was confusing, our reactions uncomfortable, and the challenge of a continuing relationship with her daunting.(more)

Throughout the past twenty-five years that my brother has been living with schizophrenia, I have experienced much pain and frustration about the best way to help him.  (more)

There is nothing to describe the feelings of a parent when you hear the word schizophrenia for the first time in relation to your child.? The absolute panic and chaos that follows is horrible.? Luckily for us, we had attended a training with Jane prior to hearing that diagnosis.(more)


       
 
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