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Jared Murray is a friend and colleague of mine that works at The Reprieve for Men in Alabama. He was asked recently to give his testimony at his home church in Alabama about addiction, recovery and his...
View ArticleUtah Travels Day One
Our trip to Utah is totally packed with program visits, as usual! We visited New Roads Treatment Center in Provo, Utah. They have 3 distinct programs within their residential treatment program: one...
View ArticleTravels in Utah Day Two & Three
We began our second day at Ascend Recovery with Guy Hardcastle in American Fork. Guy explained to us that Ascend was for adults who realized they needed help with their substance use issues or a...
View ArticleImportance of Peer Groups and Young Adults
I have just finished reading the book Tribe. The author, Sebastian Junger, makes the key point that we, as a species, were made to live in community with each other. He spent much of his adult life...
View ArticleGirls Autism Diagnosis Frequently Missed
April is Autism Awareness Month so we are writing about Autism. At the Autism Symposium, there was a session that really helped me understand why girls with autism are diagnosed much less frequently...
View ArticleLessons From the Autism Symposium
Karyn Kaminski, May Peach, and Louise Slater attended the Autism Symposium held in Sundance, Utah the first week of April. Karyn sat on a panel, “When ASD and SUD Combine: A Panel Discussion” and...
View ArticleLife Altering Decisions
At church on Easter Sunday, the minister asked “what decisions have you made in your life that turned your life in a different direction?” For me the first one was easy – taking a job that led me to...
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Learning Differences and Educational Testing: The Importance of Understanding LD When the Price Group meets with families, very early in our information gathering and intake process, we ask families...
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Working With Enmeshed Parents We have been working with a parent recently of a student who has both learning (LD) issues and emotional (SN) issues; what is interesting is the relationship between...
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