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Resolutions
-Teen Behavior Management Consultants-
"Together and Only Together Can We Resolve..."
Welcome...
Concerns about youth problems and youth outcomes continue to grow, but far too few questions are asked about adult and community responsibilities for prevention, intervention or development. Community development is seen as competing priorities rather than inseparable goals. When we talk about prevention, we are talking in terms of problems; but no matter how early we commit to addressing them, there is something fundamentally limiting about having everything defined by a problem. In the final analysis we do not assess people in terms of problems or lack thereof, but potential. If we cannot define – and do not give young people ample opportunities to define – what skills, values, attitudes, knowledge, and commitments we want with as much force as we can define what we do not want, we will fail.
When we talk about problems, we end up talking about programs and services and we think about interventions in discrete blocks of time. When we talk about development, we end up talking about supports and opportunities, and recognize the importance of continuity, challenge and choice. Applying what we know about youth development suggests some obvious strategies; we have to broaden the goals. Not just school and jobs, but social, civic and mental health competencies. Not just competencies, but the confidence and connectedness needed to use them well.
We need to better articulate and implement the interventions needed to achieve those goals. We have to acknowledge and address the environmental and developmental contexts that affect outcomes; these are lofty statements of what we should do. They need to be counterbalanced with some more practical statements about programmatic changes that would signal a shift from problem prevention to youth development.
Resources need to be targeted to maximize impact and to match the needs of young people with the resources available.
Resolutions: Teen Behavior Management Consultants is a much needed community resource that develops intimate relationships with their clients. Our consultants are required to give free assessments of each young person and his or her family to make sure the services implemented are conducive and most of all effective. Resolutions: TBMC knows and understands the uniqueness of every young person and want every effort made, with the help of family, to be a collective one.
Knowledge
Accountability
Responsibility
Truth
"God has sown in our hearts the seeds of Happiness; it is a crime that you dig those seeds out and throw them willfully on the rocks so the wind will scatter them and the birds will pick them. God has given you children to rear, to teach them The Truth and fill their hearts with the most precious things in existence. He wants you to Bequeath upon them the Joy of Life and the Bounty of Life; why are they now strangers to their place of birth and cold creatures before the face of The Sun? A father who makes his own son a slave is the father who gives his child a stone when he asks for bread. Have you not seen the birds of the sky training their young ones to fly? Why, then, do you teach your children to drag the shackles of slavery? Have you not seen the flowers of the the valleys deposit their seeds in the sun-heated earth? Then why do you commit your children to the cold darkness?"
Kahlil Gibran
"If The CHILDREN can't learn the way we teach, then WE have to TEACH the way they learn."
Reg Weaver, President
National Education
Association
