We offer tailored and ongoing assistance to help your get your young persons life on track for long term success and happiness. Here are some special reasons to be proactive with adolescents and young adults

• A young persons brain is more fragile than the adult brain as it continues to develop into their early 20's.
• Drinking or drug use prior to full brain maturation damages neurocognitive functioning. It impairs decision making in the executive center of the brain causing preference for short term rewards; desensitization to long term consequences; undermining voluntary control over future drinking; impairing learning, memory, conflict resolution, and social skills.
• Early alcohol and drug use increases the likelihood of full blown addiction by 50%.
• Early experience shapes the neural pathways that underlie lifelong susceptibility to anxiety, depression, addiction, and personality disorders.
• Co-occuring disorders (both substance abuse, process addictions, self harm and psychiatric problems) are on an unprecedented rise in our colleges.
• These problems are not always manifested in college GPA's.
• College student statistics for you to consider:

-  40% of students had participated in binge drinking in the previous two weeks of the study, and 37% of these reported doing something they regretted under the influence. 30% forgot where they were of what they had done.

-  Campus sexual assaults have quadrupled.

-  45% of college students report depression that results in difficulty functioning.

-  40% of women will suffer with an eating disorder during their college career.

-  85% of U.S. colleges report an increase in students with severe psychological problems.

-  91% of counseling centers hospitalized at least one student in 2005.

-  Up until 1996 relationship problems were the number one reason college students sought counseling (which is developmentally appropriate).  Since 1996 anxiety overtook it and has remained at the top since.

-  The number one prescription prescribed to students is not birth control or acne medicine, but it is Prozac.  Second place are other psychiatric medications for anxiety.

-  17% of Cornell & Princeton students reported self harming behaviors such as cutting and burning in 2005.