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Substance Use and Co-Occurring Mental Health Conditions
A substance use disorder (SUD) is a mental condition that causes sufferers to struggle to control their use of legal or illegal drugs and substances, like alcohol or prescription medication.
What is a Substance Use Disorder (SUD)?
Nearly every American alive today has been affected by a Substance Use Disorder (SUD), but many of them might not know it.
Stories of Resilience & Success
Emma's Story Emma is a 17-year-old female who attends Sycamore Schools. She was referred due to a history of...
Program Helps Stabilize Families
Child Focus Intensive Home Based Treatment seeks to strengthen youth and families and helps to facilitate stability,...
Operation Street Smart: Drug Education - Event Recap
Drug abuse is one of the most dangerous, and difficult to understand threats facing children and teenagers today. Many teenagers will be offered drugs at some time in their adolescence and a large portion of those teenagers will give in to pressure and begin abusing drugs.
Understanding Bullying and The Rise of Cyberbullying
Bullying comes in many different forms. Sometimes it is physical, sometimes emotional, and often it is a mixture of the two.
Any way that bullying presents itself, it is damaging to the long-term health of children of all ages.